Vesna Bukovec

DigitalBigScreen Festival 2010 – Trbovlje novomedijsko mesto (TNM)

Exhibition: DigitalBigScreen Festival 2010 – Trbovlje novomedijsko mesto (TNM)
Location: DDT, Labour home Trbovlje (Delavski dom Trbovlje)
Date: May 4-8, 2010

Artists:
Selection from international open call: Blaž Erzetič, Matej Ocepek, Monika Vrečar, Paride Di Stefano, Vesna Bukovec, Lemeh42

Selected by prof. dr. Dušan Bučar: Ana Baraga, Andrea Stančić, Anna Torronen, Beata Faron, Eli Dimitrova, Luis Pederaza, Maj Brit Jensen, Matej Stupica, Naja Simčič, Sava in Maja Kosmač, Simona Sasinova

Selected works V.A.T.: Andrej Grilj, Aphra Tesla, Benjamin Kreže, Katarina Bebar and Matej Drnovšek, Katja Sovre, Manja Ključevšek, Maša Jazbec, Mojca Mlinarič, Špela Pavli, Tanja Hanžič, Zoran Poznič

About the exhibition
Process of cinema digitalization, which at last is starting also in Slovenia, enables us to view new content in cinema halls. That includes video and it’d derivations (video document, video performance …). Until now video artists were limited to TV screen, LCD or small screen projections – smaller formats. There were technical limitations to their possibilities.

Digitalbigscreen Festival 2010 (TNM) is turning these positions upside down. We offer video artists a possibility of presenting their works on big cinema screen, which enables them an insight into contemporary visual practice in a new way.

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I am participating with a single channel version of the video Please Wake Up Every Morning

The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts

Exhibition: The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts
Location: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
Date: April 24 – May 30, 2010

Artists: Dave Ball, Vesna Bukovec, Agnieszka Chojnacka, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Agnieszka Kurant, Łukasz Ogórek, Tom Milnes, Kama Sokolnicka, Metka Zupanič

Curator: Agnieszka Kulazińska

About the exhibition:
The idea of “The-Dump.net” was conceived by French artist and theorist Maurice Benayoun. It comes down to a dump of thoughts. It exists in the form of an Internet blog which comprises concepts of works in theoretical or hypothetical shape, ideas too complex to be realized, and not clearly defined, transient thoughts being born each day in artist’s mind.

What is the difference between today’s artists and regular citizens? Since the Renaissance the situation was clear as the craftsmanship was an indispensable element of artistic production. The artist worked according to disegno – the intellectual idea – and the capability to put it into practice was essential. In the 20th century the proportions reversed: the craft ceased to matter and artistic activity shifted into the sphere of pure conceptuality. Today, the final work can be as well accomplished by another person, be born through coincidence, or the viewers themselves can become co-authors or provide conditions for it to appear.

“The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts” is an experiment whose construction brings to mind an Internet forum. The artists invited to the project will be asked to realize concepts picked up from the dump.

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I am participating with a series of drawings I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same.

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AT HOME: Architects France and Marta Ivanšek

Exhibition: AT HOME: Architects France and Marta Ivanšek / DOMA: arhitekta France in Marta Ivanšek
Location: Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija), Tomšičeva 14, Ljubljana
Date: March 25 – May 16, 2010

In co-production with Trajekt – Zavod za prostorsko kulturo

Curators: Martina Malešič and Anja Planišček

Interventions by artists: Vesna Bukovec, Vadim Fiškin, Dejan Habicht, Žiga Kariž, Tanja Lažetić, Tadej Pogačar, radioCona (Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman), Zora Stančić, Petra Varl

About the exhibition:
A presentation of a pair of architects who were very influential in the development of architecture in Slovenia in the second half of the 20th century. Based on research, their projects were progressive and unique in their time: the Murgle residential area, a furniture line for the company Meblo, the store Interier, and nursing homes. Interventions by contemporary artists also form part of the exhibition.

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I am participating with a video Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje / The Happiest Apartment in the World, 2010

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I have produced an edition of 100 posters with drawings borrowed from the book France Ivanšek: Single Family House, published by the author in 1988.
The poster is for sale in the museum shop of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (Moderna galerija).
Dimensions: 50x70cm, price: 10 EUR

A series of water resistant transparent stickers with 9 different motifs from the same book, each edition of 100, is also for sale at the museum shop.
Dimension: Ø7cm, price: 2,50 EUR per sticker

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Vesna Bukovec from 06:04 to 07:13 (in Slovene only)

Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love

Exhibition: Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love / Vse kar pojem, se spremeni v zdravje, lepoto in ljubezen (Solo presentation by Vesna Bukovec)
Location: Kulturni inkubator, Koroška 18, Maribor
Date: March 12, 2010 at 7pm

The exhibition is part of the project Videodinner / Video večerja

Curator: Aleksandra Saška Gruden

About the exhibtion:
In her recent projects Vesna Bukovec is exploring the impact of consumer society, shopping culture and popular positive psychology in the formation of identity, subjective well-being and self-image of the modern individual.

At the Videodinner she will serve delicious pancakes made of oatmeal and a series of videos on the topic of positive affirmation. A positive affirmation is a concept of popular psychology: it is a positive sentence repeated many times in order to impress the subconscious mind and trigger it into action.
Repetitive gestures and statements in videos will be joined with repetitive gestures of making pancakes.

About the Videodinner:
Videodinner project is a set of events to be carried out once a month. In each single evening the invited artist prepares a thematic video projection and conceptually connects it with the cooking addition. Each Video Dinner project is an individual concept by the invited author, drawing from his/hers personal attitudes, thoughts and interests. It may be a response to the current creative research, or to the previous work.
The set of Videodinners is diverse and covers a broad range of approaches and confessions.
The selection of artists is also diverse and is not limited to their space and time. Individual authors may focus on specific details: the color, shape, taste, purpose, content, design…
The selection of artists is made by Aleksandra Saška Gruden.

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With the help of Aleksandra I made lots of pancakes.
Besides the White Performances/Positive Affirmations I have also presented my other videos and some of the videos from KOLEKTIVA.

Komunikacijske mreže / Communication Networks

Exhibition: Komunikacijske mreže / Communication Networks; Art institutions and New Publics
Location: Mestna galerija Ljubljana
Date: March 11 – April 11, 2010

Visual Notes: A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro; P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana; Center for visual culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; ICA -Sofia; MGML, Mestna galerija Ljubljana; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Open Space, Vienna; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Artists: Botner and Pedro / Guga Ferraz / Laura Lima / Ernesto Neto / Alexandre Vogler / Vesna Bukovec / Mina Petrović & Vera Backović / Bik Van der Pol / Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber / Aleksandar Dimitrijević / Dubravka Sekulić & Dunja Predić & Davor Ereš / Sanja Jovović / Jakob Kolding / Stefan Römer / Dušan Šaponja & Dušan Čavić / Mark Terkessidis / Milica Lapčević & Vladimir Šojat / Kalin Serapionov / Boštjan Bugarič / Domen Grögl / Apolonija Šušteršič / Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammmer / Avi Mograbi / Haim Ben Shitrit / Erzen Shkololli / Boaz Arad / Fikret Atay

Curators: Alenka Gregorič, Bojana Piškur

About the exhibtion:
At the present, when virtually all institutions operating in the sphere of culture are primarily concerned with statistics about the numbers of their visitors, the strategies and marketing tactics to increase these numbers and attract more and more sponsors at the same time, it has become almost obsolete to speak of the “subjects” who make up these numbers, that is, the visitors to the various cultural and artistic events – the museum public. … What kind of strategies and dynamics of work involving several situations, institutions, and discourses are not identified by or subject to these spaces? How can networking be set up in environments that are very specific? How can a new art institution establish itself in a given space? How can long-term associations with the local environment be established? How can the traps of multicultural exoticism be avoided?

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I am participating with the project Local Issues