{"id":2781,"date":"2020-05-27T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:21:08","slug":"femlink-art-aggression-and-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/2781","title":{"rendered":"FemLink-Art: Aggression and Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibition:<\/strong>\u00a0FemLink-Art: Aggression and Wonder
\nVenue:<\/strong>\u00a0Alkatraz Gallery, ACC Metelkova city, Ljubljana
\nDate:<\/strong> 27 May \u2013 19 June 2020
\nAccompanying program:<\/strong> A closing event, where we will discuss the FemLink-Art initiative with Slovenian authors at the exhibition, Vesna Bukovec and Ana Grobler, in an informal atmosphere. The event will take place in front of the Alcatraz Gallery on Thursday, 18 June 2020, from 5.30 pm. We will also present the FemLink-Art publication, which was published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the collective.<\/p>\n

Artists:<\/strong>\u00a0Evgenija Demnievska<\/strong>\u00a0(Serbia),\u00a0Vouvoula Skoura<\/strong>\u00a0(Greece),\u00a0Luzia Simons<\/strong>\u00a0(Brazil),\u00a0Viviana Berco<\/strong>\u00a0(Argentina),\u00a0Hiroko Okada<\/strong>\u00a0(Japan),\u00a0Sara Malinarich<\/strong>\u00a0(Chile),\u00a0Evelin Stermitz<\/strong>\u00a0(Austria),\u00a0Ingrida Pi\u010dukane\u00a0<\/strong>(Latvia),\u00a0Sabine Mooibroek<\/strong>\u00a0(the Netherlands),\u00a0V\u00e9ronique Sapin<\/strong>\u00a0(France),\u00a0Maria Rosa Jijon<\/strong>\u00a0(Ecuador),\u00a0Tayeba Begum Lipi<\/strong>\u00a0(Bangladesh),\u00a0Amaranta Sanchez<\/strong>\u00a0(Mexico),\u00a0Eva Koch<\/strong>\u00a0(Denmark),\u00a0C. M. Judge<\/strong>\u00a0(the USA),\u00a0Alessandra Arno<\/strong>\u00a0(Italy),\u00a0Tanja Koistila<\/strong>\u00a0(Finland),\u00a0Maria Dominguez Alba<\/strong>\u00a0(Spain),\u00a0Ana Grobler<\/strong>\u00a0(Slovenia),\u00a0Elaine Frigon<\/strong>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0Alena Kup\u010dikova<\/strong>\u00a0(Czech Republic),\u00a0Seema Nusrat<\/strong>\u00a0(Pakistan),\u00a0Mesrure Melis Bilgin<\/strong>\u00a0(Turkey),\u00a0Anna Titovets<\/strong>\u00a0(Russia),\u00a0Ligia Bouton<\/strong>\u00a0(Brazil),\u00a0Dagmar Kase<\/strong>\u00a0(Estonia),\u00a0Laura Garc\u00eda<\/strong>\u00a0(Mexico),\u00a0Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo<\/strong>\u00a0(Cuba),\u00a0Zuzanna Janin<\/strong>\u00a0(Poland),\u00a0Vesna Bukovec<\/strong>\u00a0(Slovenia),\u00a0Ayesha Sultana<\/strong>\u00a0(Bangladesh),\u00a0Maria Papacharalambous<\/strong>\u00a0(Cyprus),\u00a0Loes Heebink<\/strong>\u00a0(the Netherlands),\u00a0Amina Zoubir<\/strong>\u00a0(Algeria),\u00a0Cagdas Kahriman<\/strong>\u00a0(Turkey),\u00a0Patricija Gilyte<\/strong>\u00a0(Latvia),\u00a0Carolina Saquel<\/strong>\u00a0(Chile\/France),\u00a0Angelika Rinnhofer<\/strong>\u00a0(Germany),\u00a0\u00a0Itziar Barrio<\/strong>\u00a0(Spain),\u00a0Liang Wei<\/strong>\u00a0(China),\u00a0Diana Yun<\/strong>\u00a0(Kazakhstan),\u00a0Cecilia Vignolo<\/strong>\u00a0(Uruguay),\u00a0Jelena Mi\u0161kovi\u0107<\/strong>\u00a0(Serbia),\u00a0Chantal du Pont<\/strong>\u00a0(Canada)<\/p>\n

Curator:<\/strong> Veronique Sapin<\/strong> (Francija\/Singapur)<\/p>\n

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\nAnna Titovets, Self cell aggression<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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About the exhibition<\/p>\n

FemLink-Art is a collective of visual artists, established by C. M. Judge (USA) and Veronique Sapin (France\/Canada) in 2005. FemLink explores new forms of artistic networking and transnational collaboration; furthermore, its aim is to help artists with harder working conditions and less exhibiting opportunities. Until now, 145 artists from 63 countries, with over 300 works contributed to the creation of a collective piece of art, composed of video collages, thematising various concepts. The founders of FemLink-Art contend that ‘for a long time, the aesthetic criteria were characterized by forced limitations and dominated by principles of exclusion, legitimacy, and hierarchy;’ the project was founded as a political answer to challenge overlooked female artists and inequalities in the world of art, and to foster networking. It works in the way that the founders invite artists to contribute their own perspectives on a specific collage topic without any limitations, except for the temporal one \u2013 the video cannot be longer than two minutes.<\/p>\n

The Alkatraz Gallery shall confront two topics of video collages \u2013\u00a0Aggression<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Wonder<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 created by 44 artists, who were chosen by one of the collective’s founders, the curator Veronique Sapin. Although the themes appear to be diametrically opposite, they \u2013 with the help of videos, harrowing and diverse in artistic approaches \u2013 question the reality, offer critical thought on the present, and reveal what is ordinarily overlooked. Both videos have already been featured in the Photon Gallery in the context of Video evenings, organized by\u00a0Kolektiva<\/a>. Among the authors of the collage\u00a0Wonder<\/em>\u00a0is also a Slovene artist Vesna Bukovec, with her video entitled\u00a0You Can Do It!<\/em>, whilst the collage\u00a0Aggression<\/em>\u00a0features a Slovene artist and curator, Ana Grobler, with the video titled\u00a0Fable<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the exhibition announcement on Alkatraz Gallery website.<\/em><\/p>\n

More about the exhibition<\/a>
\nfemlink.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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I am participating with the video You can do it!<\/a><\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n