Vesna Bukovec

Video in Progress 5: Reflections of the Past

Video in Progress 5: Reflections of the Past
International video festival

5-7 June 2014
CUK Kino Šiška and Atrij ZRC, Ljubljana

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Video in Progress is an international video festival, directed by artists and curators Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič and organised by Zavod Kolektiva in collaboration with Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana. In 2014, the festival joined with Photonic Moments – Month of Photography festival.

The fifth edition brings forth a variety of contemporary international video art addressing the issues of past times and memories. In this edition the selectors took up the research of time and transitoriness. They were interested in how the common historical narratives intertwines with personal memories and how they both affect our identity and our sense of being in the world. At a time of multimedia culture, saturated with numerous events and information quickly sliding into oblivion, memories become fragile and evasive. Because of that there is a need to constantly interpret or reinterpret past events in order to make sense out of our present society and our actions as individuals.

In the previous edition of the festival the topic of pain was explored from a personal perspective. With the current festival edition the selectors expanded their research of the presence of pain in everyday life to include a wider socio-political context marked by turbulent historical events of the past century leading up to the present moment. The selected videos each address pain from a particular historical moment in a specific way.

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PROGRAMME:

Main Selection
APPROPRIATING HISTORY
Artists: Ana Bilankov (HR/DE), Lana Čmajčanin & Adela Jušić (BA), Aleksandra Domanović (RS/DE), Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid (SI), Vladislav Knežević (HR), Iva Kontić (RS)
Curated by: Vesna Bukovec & Metka Zupanič (SI)

Artist in Focus
ANJA MEDVED
Talk and screenings

Guest Selections
100×100=900 (100 VIDEO ARTISTS TO TELL A CENTURY)
A project by internaional video festival Magmart, Italy
Artistic director: Enrico Tomaselli

THE AFRICAN TIME MACHINE
Artists: Bofa da Cara (AO/ES), Sammy Baloji (CG), Aryan Kaganof (ZA), Theo Eshetu (ET), Kgafela oa Magogodi & Jyoti Mistry (ZA), Ezra Wube (US/ET), Julia Raynham (ZA), Neil Beloufa (DZ/FR)
Curated by: Silke Schmickl, Mickaël Robert-Gonçalves, Jeremy Chua (Lowave, Paris)

Student Productions
URBAN STORIES
School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica (UNG VŠU)
Selected by: Rene Rusjan

More about the festival
Screening Schedule
Previous editions of Video in Progress

Zipped Worlds. Photography in Public Domain

Exhibition: Zipped Worlds. Fotografija v javnem prostoru / Photography in Public Domain
Location: Kult 3000 Gallery, Metelkova ulica 2/b, Ljubljana, SI
Date: May 30 – June 18, 2014

Artists: Breda Beban, Emma Ciceri, Fabrizio Giraldi, G.R.A.M., KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Borut Krajnc, Paula Muhr, Adrian Paci

The exhibition is part of the Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2014 festival.

Paula Muhr, On Show, 2007

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About the exhibition

Zipped Worlds is a collaborative project by partner organisations Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography and Trieste Contemporanea, in which a group of curators (Giuliana Carbi, Susanne Gamauf, Brigitte Konyen and Dejan Sluga) explore new concepts of public and private, as communicated through the (present) use of photographic images. The exhibition at Kult 3000 Gallery brings together a selection of works from the larger project involving 15 artists from different European countries.

Photography is entering public space with its physical presence, through digital media and furthermore through the notion that everything around us is constantly being recorded. Photography is de facto the most ubiquitously present visual medium in today’s urban environment. Within this wide spectrum, photography appears in public space (urban exteriors and interiors) in the traditional form of a “picture” as well as through the omnipresence of a network of surveillance cameras that record images non-stop. We are the most photographed and recorded world population ever.

Excerpt from the text by Dejan Sluga

More:
http://www.photonicmoments.net/?p=3651
http://www.triestecontemporanea.it/news.php?id_news=212&l=e&id_m=2
http://www.kolektiva.org/archives/1034

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KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič) participates at the exhibition with the video Special Place in the City – Graz

Don’t Be Afraid, You Are The Best

Exhibition: Don’t Be Afraid, You Are The Best
Location: Kibla Portal, Valvasorjeva 40, Maribor, SI
Date: May 22 – September 14, 2014
Opening: May 22, 2014 at 8 pm

Participating artists and students of the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Education, Maribor: Larisa Adanič, Kaja Avberšek, Boris Beja, Nataša Berk, Saša Bezjak, Saša Bitenc, Vesna Bukovec, Nežka Cestnik, Mina Fina, Anja Gelt, Aleksandra Gruden, Betina Habjanič, Lori Hiti, Sara Hočevar, Tamara Hršak, Nana Irgolič, Tanisa Jahić, Tanja Jakopin, Natalija Juhart, Doroteja Ketiš, Laura Koder, Kaja Konc, Lana Korčulanin, Lara Korošec, Manica Kovač, Anja Kozel, David Kranjčan, Natalija Doris Križman, Kristian Lah, Tadeja Lakič, Tina Lanišek, Nina Logar, Nika Lopert, Ina Lutarič, Polona Maher, Karmen Majerič, Simona Marot, Anja Medved, Matija Medved, Jelena Pavlović, Anja Plemenitaš, Silvester Plotajs – Sicoe, Sanja Pocrnjić, Borut Popenko, Andrej Praznik, Zoran Pungerčar, Leon Ravlan, Rone 84, Urška Sabati, Tajda Martina Senič, Alja Sitar, Klavdija Skrbinjek, Beli Sladoled, Katja Smolar, son:DA, Lucija Stakne, Marička Stakne, Zora Stančič, Vojko Stiplovšek, Sara Strožič, Valentina Škofic, Urška Školnik, Andrej Štular, Žan Valenčak, Petra Varl, Erik Vodenik, Polona Vovk, Sašo Vrabič, Mojca Zlokarnik, Sara Žičkar, Jernej Žumer

Curated by: Petra Varl

The exhibition, or, better yet, project, draws on a medium closest to the author, which is drawing. Hidden behind its seeming simplicity is a minimalistically concise and thus complex method of expression, which is an object of enduring fascination. Don’t Be Afraid, You Are The Best is intended as a communicative community project that transforms the extensive KIBLA PORTAL venue into a space of vivacious creative dialog between artists belonging to different generations.

More info
Več informacij
Vabilo/Invitation card (pdf)

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I am participating with a drawing from the series I can make another turn (2012)

Perspektive mest / City Perspectives

Exhibition: Perspektive mest / City Perspectives
Location: Photon Gallery, Vienna, AT
Date: April 15 – June 14, 2014
Opening: April 15, 2014 at 7 pm

Artists: Bojan Salaj, Branko Cvetkovič, Tomaž Gregorič, Tanja Lažetić & Dejan Habicht, Zmago Lenardič & Jasna Hribernik, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved

Curated by: Dejan Sluga (photography), Vesna Bukovec & Metka Zupanič (video)

The City Perspectives exhibition presents works by Slovenian artists and deals with specific phenomena of the contemporary urban environment through photography and video. The photographic part of the exhibition includes works of five artists and shows us through different layers of the city of Ljubljana in order to point out on the constant urbanization processes or status modification of individual buildings and public spaces. Whereas, five conceptual video projects by mid-career artists explore the perception of urban realities of the city through their personal stories and intimate experiences.

Invitation (pdf)
Catalogue (pdf)

More:
www.kolektiva.org
www.photongallery.at

FemLink The International Video Collages: Wonder

Event: Video večer / Video Evening #18: FemLink The International Video Collages: Wonder
Location: Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: March 25, 2014 at 8 pm

Video collage composed by: FemLink.org

Participating: Ligia Bouton (BR), Dagmar Kase (EE), Laura García (MX), Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (CU), Zuzanna Janin (PL), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Ayesha Sultana (BD), Maria Papacharalambous (CY), Loes Heebink (NL), Véronique Sapin (FR), Amina Zoubir (DZ), Cagdas Kahriman (TR), Patricija Gilyte (LT), C.M.Judge (US), Carolina Saquel (CL/FR), Angelika Rinnhofer (DE), Alessandra Arnò (IT), Itziar Barrio (ES), Liang Wei (CN), Diana Yun (KZ), Cecilia Vignolo (UY), Jelena Miskovic (RS), Seema Nusrat (PK), Chantal du Pont (CA), Alena Kupcikova (CZ)

Ligia Bouton: Wonder Body, still

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About the collage

Twenty-five FemLink artists were invited to create a video on the topic “Wonder”. As with each new theme that FemLink proposes, artists are entirely free to interpret the theme as they wish. Their only instruction is to answer the question, ‘What does this topic mean for you?’.

“Wonder” presents a re-examination of the word and its possible interpretations from an artistic perspective which can reveal or glorify that which can escape us in the reality. What emerges from the 25 videos of the “collage”, it is that the wonderful fact is not wonderful in itself; rather, it is wonderful as it relates to its context of reality. The videos propose to us a “Wonder” which applies this relation to a reality whatever it is: the most ordinary and the most short-lived.

More info
Več informacij

More about Video Evenings

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I am participating with the video You can do it! (2010)