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Living Archive Interview: Ida Hiršenfelder with Vesna Bukovec

Thursday, April 26th, 2012 | News | Comments Off

Recorded at the occasion of the exhibition Bring In Take Out Living Archive Ljubljana, 7.-10. March 2012 in the framework of the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns
More info: http://bringintakeout.wordpress.com

Curated by: Red Min(e)d
Video by: Ana Čigon

The interview is in Slovene language.

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We talk about works:

Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012

Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | Exhibitions | Comments Off

Exhibition: Nagrada skupine OHO 2012 / The OHO Award 2012
Location: Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: April 25 – May 13, 2012
Exhibition opening and winner announcement: April 25 at 8 pm

The OHO Award 2012

The OHO Award was established in 2005 by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in collaboration with the Foundation for a Civil Society and with the support of the New York based Trust for Mutual Understanding. The aim of the OHO Award is to support young visual artists and to take them from a marginal social position to a more central role in society, with an emphasis on a positive context based on openness and creativity.
The OHO Award is a major international fellowship award program for young visual artists till 35 year, including media of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video, new media and performance.

The jury for the 2012 OHO Award: Katerina Mirović (curator, Ljubljana), Jože Barši (ALUO, Ljubljana), Dalibor Martinis (artist, Zagreb), and Miran Mohar (artist, Ljubljana).

Nominees for the 2012 OHO Award:

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is collaborating with the group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona and Venice. She used different media like drawing, video, photography, installation and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony.

Alja Piry (1982) gained BA in Art history studies from Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana in 2007 and in 2010 a MA in Fine arts from University of applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 she is self-employed as artist/cultural worker. Alja Piry is concerned with the idea of artworks as generators of intersubjective impulse. In her practice she uses various mediums, including drawing/text, voice-based installation, painting, video and book.

Tina Smrekar (1978) has completed her Photography MA in 2005 at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig after graduating in design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works in photography, video, installation and research projects as well as occasionally performance. Her works have been exhibited in Slovenia, Croatia and Germany .

Tomaž Furlan (1978) graduated on Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In his staged works he used video and installation. He exhibited in Maribor, Padova, Ljubljana. He lives and works in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka.

www.zavod-parasite.si
Vžigalica gallery

Artist talk with Vesna Bukovec

Monday, April 2nd, 2012 | News | Comments Off

Recorded at the occasion of the exhibition Bring In Take Out Living Archive Ljubljana, 7.-10. March 2012 in the framework of the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns

Curated by: Red Min(e)d
Video by: Ana Čigon
Edited by: Anja Perše

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I talk about works:

Nominees for the 2012 OHO Award

Monday, March 19th, 2012 | News | Comments Off

The jury for the 2012 OHO Award – consisting of Katerina Mirović (curator, Ljubljana), Jože Barši (ALUO, Ljubljana), Dalibor Martinis (artist, Zagreb), and Miran Mohar (artist, Ljubljana) – has at their first meeting chosen this year’s four nominees from the submitted proposals.

The nominees are Vesna Bukovec, Tomaž Furlan, Alja Piry, and Tina Smrekar.

Now in its seventh year, the OHO Award is presented by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in collaboration with the Foundation for Civil Society and Trust for Mutual Understanding, both based in New York.

The nominees have until the last week in April to prepare a new work or present a work that has not yet been exhibited. The works will be presented at the Vžigalica Gallery.

The programme of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and by the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department of Culture. The OHO Award is sponsored by the KD Group d.d.

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Bring In Take Out Living Archive - Ljubljana

Sunday, March 4th, 2012 | Exhibitions | Comments Off

Exhibition:The Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA) - Ljubljana, Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition
Location: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: LA Lab: March 7-10, 2012, 4 p.m. - midnight, LA Exhibition: March 7-23, 2012

Ljubljana edition features: Vesna Bukovec (Ljubljana), Ida Hiršenfelder (Ljubljana), Biljana Kašić (Zagreb), Margareta Kern (London), Tanja Marković (Belgrade), Karen Mirza (London), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade) and Aviv Kruglansky (Barcelona), Ana Vilenica (Pančevo) and many others.

The project is organized by: Red Min(e)d (Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović)

The Red Min(e)d in collaboration with the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (Ljubljana) and the Center for Women Studies (Zagreb) is organizing the second edtion of The Bring In Take Out Living Archive.

The second edition of LA consists of two exhibitions as live events. The artworks are emphasizing the archive as a paradigm for generating public space and new forms of sociality. In Alkatraz gallery the art works and screenings will co-create the laboratory for different exchange of information where anyone can join for documenting reality, live interviews, artist’s talks, and digitalizing or uploading on the spot. Kapelica gallery will host an interactive art project and public discussion on feminist strategies for the creation of an archive as a living knowledge. Beside reversing the traditional representations of women and re-questioning invisible histories (of women migrant workers), we tend to weave – in accordance with Rosi Braidotti’s concept of ‘becoming’ – the linkage across present and past in the act of constructing and actualizing possible futures.

With guerrilla action on the International Women’s Day 8th of March we are calling for resistance movements against all forms of social repression and economic exploitation by remembering the famous slogan of the textile women workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts on 8th of March, 1912: we want bread, and roses too.

Program (pdf)
More about projects (pdf)
Več o projektih (pdf)
Bring In Take Out Living Archive - Ljubljana
www.rdecezore.org
www.galerijalkatraz.org

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I am participating with two series of drawings: How to fail successfully (2011) and Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012).

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In the series of drawings How To Fail Successfully, Vesna Bukovec deals with the failure of individuals in society that implies indirect violence with absolute values such as success, health and happiness in the fashion of a Do-It-Yourself manual. In the new series of drawings (Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical), through the cliché images of women taken from Web “stock-image” files used by media and advertisers, she depicts social marginalisation. Even if it is all about stereotypes, the presented situations are still so real. This series was inspired by the Tinza comics by Marko Pogačnik, published in the journal Problems in 1969.

Text from the catalogue Bring In Take Out - Living Archive (LA), Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ljubljana

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Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series How to fail successfully, 2011