Vesna Bukovec

VideoWall 2016: Vesna Bukovec

Exhibition: VideoWall 2016: Vesna Bukovec
Venue: Židovska Street, Ljubljana, SI
Date: October 18 – November 6, 2016, every night from 6pm till midnight
Opening: October 18, 2016, at 8 pm

Screening of a new video Okrožnica / Circular.

Video Okrožnica / Circular is a simple animation of spinning circle. A preloader is familiar to all computer and Internet users. The aim of the spinning circle animation is to inform the user that certain process is taking place in the background even though the result is not yet visible. If the circle is spinning for too long, we become nervous and even angry.

The endlessly spinning circle could be compared to the slowness of bureaucratic procedures and the powerlessness of those who are waiting. Continuous rotation is symbolizing the flow of time, as well as being caught in a loop.

The shape of the circle is the shape of the letter o. Inside the rotating circle the words starting with the letter o (in Slovene language) are appearing and disappearing. At first sight random words turns out to be related to life choices and situations of refugees and asylum seekers who are waiting for their application for international protection to be solved. Will their endless circle of waiting ever stop?

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VideoWall is an open air video gallery, an ever-changing graffiti, with a new video loop being presented every two weeks. Each work is screened daily between 9 pm to 1 am in autumn and 6 pm to midnight in winter. The works are in line with the context of the street and open-air video gallery.

Authors who applied through an international call were selected by Pila Rusjan, video artist and author of the project, are Eriz Moreno, Metka Zupanič, Kika Nicolela, Yuliya Molina, Vesna Bukovec, Nez Pez & Marko Kolarič Gavez, Victor Paradinho and Lina Rica.

VideoWall is produced by famulVideoLab (KD Galerija GT), cofinanced by City of Ljubljana and supported by Galerija Hest. Executive producer is Polona Zupan / Pila Rusjan, her co-worker is Miha Kelemina.

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Photos from the opening
Photo: Miha Kelemina

Prōtocollum 2016/2017

The new issue of PRŌTOCOLLUM was recently published, with 76 visual artists and art collectives from 50 countries.

PRŌTOCOLLUM is an annually published anthology dedicated to non-Western contemporary visual artists, art narratives and art history.

The third issue of the journal is introduced with Vesna Bukovec’s ironic comment ‘Continue as if everything is right’, alluding to the cognitive dissonance that allows us to continue our life as usual in a world that is not only full of social and political injustice, war, terror, mass flight and migration, but also experiencing political reactions to these developments in the form of populism and neo-nationalistic tendencies, which are at least as disturbing as the events that caused them. This introduction sets the tone for PRŌTOCOLLUM 2016/17, which is somewhat more sombre and sadder than the previous editions.

www.protocollum.org

PRŌTOCOLLUM 2016/17
Languages: English (Portions in French, Spanish, Turkish and Russian).
Pages: 324
Format: 21 x 26 cm
Release: October 2016
Frequency: One issue a year
Price: €35 – £30 – $40 – ¥4100
ISBN: 978-3-9816206-4-1

Visual identity of the 22nd City of Women – International Festival of Contemporary Arts

The City of Women team invited me to design the visual identity of the 22nd edition of the festival.
I have also made graphic design of the catalogue and promotional material.

www.cityofwomen.org
booklet (pdf)

La Fine del Nuovo / The End of the New

Exhibition: La Fine del Nuovo / The End of the New. CAP. III The Grand Tour. Jurney to the End of the New.
Venue: Stazione Ferroviaria di Cividale del Friuli/UD, IT
Date: July 2 – 24, 2016
Opening: July 2, 2016, at 3 pm

Artists: Vesna Bukovec (SI), Pleurad Xhafa (AL)
Curator: Paolo Toffolutti (IT)

The project brings an itinerant exhibition of contemporary art with the title The End of the New that is going to be organized for a year in various Italian towns as well as in Ljubljana and Zagreb throughout the years of 2016-2017. The exhibition is organized by the cultural association Neo from Udine to celebrate the twentieth year of its founding with an exhibition both the same and different in each of its venues, as suggested by its name neo (new), used to redefine contents and aspects of the visual arts starting from 1996. A single catalogue of 600 pages will be published in the autumn 2016. Partners from Italy, Slovenia and Croatia will host 16 exhibitions with 85 artists.

Invitation leaflet (pdf)
Exhibition info leaflet (pdf)
www.neoassociazione.it

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“The artworks pull the spectators into a theatre to attend a tragedy, experience it from a distance and contemplate the relations, patterns and stereotypes in real life. They are meant to break the hypnosis of everyday life ruled by the function of media, the means of communication and the economic and political relations. Without a hint of superiority towards the audience these artworks could act as simple old magic for staying sane. Some would call them activist, I prefer active.”

Excerpt from the text This art is active by Vasja Nagy.
To be published in the catalogue of the exhibition La fine del Nuovo / The End of the New in autumn 2016.
Full text here

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I am presenting works:

– As if (digital print, 2014)
– I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same (series of drawings, 2010)
– How to fail successfully (series of drawings, 2011)
– It Will Be OK (video, 2009)

Exhibition The Search for Humanity at Festival Sanje

Exhibition: V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity at Festival Sanje
Venue: House of culture Šmartno, SI
Date: June 30 – July 31, 2016
Opening: June 30, 2016, at 6 pm

Twelve stories about refugees written by Widad Tamimi and illustrated by Vesna Bukovec.

The stories were published weekly in Delo newspaper from January to April 2016. They were first exhibited at the exhibition The Search for Humanity at II. gimnazija Maribor/DrugaGalerija together with artist Nika Autor and curated by Petra Čeh.

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Festival Sanje
Hiša kulture Šmartno