{"id":3055,"date":"2023-03-13T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:51:39","slug":"work-in-progress-utopian-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/3055","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress. Utopian Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibition:<\/strong> Work in Progress. Utopian Rest
\nVenue:<\/strong> GT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor, SI
\nDate:<\/strong> Saturday, 18 March 2023, 4pm: auditory rest and exhibition opening
\nExhibition on view till 7 April 2023<\/p>\n

Participating: Vesna Bukovec, Tia \u010ci\u010dek, Ana \u010cigon<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition in GT22<\/a> and the implementation of the event as part of BREZODRA (Nagib), we are preparing a performative reading with the aim of taking a short rest during the whole day’s events. The English text was created according to our instructions with the help of artificial intelligence. It draws from selected passages of well-known fiction, especially science fiction literature and humanistic texts. Participants and female workers are invited to relax while listening to gentle, sometimes radical, thoughts about utopian worlds and communities that live beyond the capabilities of our environment and social arrangements.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, 18 March 2023 from noon onwards<\/strong> @venue network: Kulturni inkubator \u2013 studio and gallery, GT22 \u2013 lobby, library and blackbox, Kibla Portal, forest etc.<\/p>\n

BREZODRA (Stageless) is a continuation of Nagib’s long-standing process of research, experimentation, reflection and performance beyond established spaces and production structures. This time, BREZODRA is designed as a multi-hour manifestation of various practices, formats of coexistence and co-creation, deliberations and discourses, aimed at finding and questioning new perspectives and performance strategies, which are created by considering the construction of (new) communities and ways of different presence, attention and action. It is an idea and a contribution to the development of new models of cultural production that depart from the established systems of producing and perceiving works of art. It is an experiment that invites the viewer to an experiential insight into creative methods, processes and (artistic) work in general.<\/p>\n

COMMUNITY OF CREATORS: Tery \u017de\u017eelj in Alicia Ocadiz, Anja Born\u0161ek, Vesna Bukovec, Ana \u010cigon in Tia \u010ci\u010dek, Sa\u0161ka Rakef, Tina Kozin in Bojana \u0160alji\u0107 Pode\u0161va, All the children \u2013 Petja Golec Horvat, Lan \u017diga Anderli\u010d, Jerca Smre\u010dnik in Simona Bobnar Radenkovi\u0107 (z umetni\u0161ko podporo Petje Labovi\u0107a inToni Soprano Meneglejte), Andreja Kopa\u010d, Jaka Berger and Miha \u0160ajina \/ Shekuza, etc.<\/p>\n

More about BREZODRA (in Slovene)<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAna \u010cigon, Izklop dela<\/em> (Switch Off Work), 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long-term artistic and curatorial research on the topic of work, reflection on the conditions of knowledge exchange and the search for alternative social and organizational arrangements have their beginnings in the creating of the exhibition, which was first shown in November 2022 in the \u0160kuc Gallery<\/a>. Through cooperation, we are looking for answers to the questions: Where do we go from here? What kind of future can we imagine and plan for? How to establish and maintain a connected and solidary community? Do we know how to cooperate and how do we have to adapt and shape ourselves and society so that we can cooperate better? etc. In an effort to understand the current approach to work itself and the role it plays within the current social order, during the preparations for the exhibition we created a reading group with the aim of sharing knowledge and reading literature related to the theory of work, care, postcolonialism, labor movements, etc. We wanted to unlearn the hierarchy of values \u200b\u200bthat put the product above the process, and productivity and profit above the person. [1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

The desire to find alternative ways of working and living was soon replaced by the need to unlearn patterns of work and adopt other ways of receiving, sharing and constructing knowledge. Thus, our position of searching for ideal forms, which in itself indicates a neoliberal and above all inherent striving for \u201cperfection\u201d, was replaced by the principle of openness, adaptation and acceptance \u2013 in the final phase even recovery \u2013 which we understand as central on the way to restructuring a harmful value system.<\/p>\n

Work in Progress<\/em> is a fluid process that is created with the desire for a better understanding of one’s own relationship to work and community, as well as with an interest in other and\/or different experiences, attitudes and practices. Through mutual cooperation, we want to highlight the precarious or dangerous social situation into which the modern worker is pushed. The exhibition of drawings opens up a space for reflection on the personal hardships of today’s precarious workers, the wishes and demands for a more tolerable life and a fairer social order. It also touches on past labor struggles and the achievements of local labor organizing, as well as the personal engagement of women in various protests for social change around the world.<\/p>\n

As part of events and exhibitions, we establish libraries with diverse humanistic literature that support the process of unlearning unjust and harmful work structures and learning about alternatives. In the video trade unionist Tea Jarc (Youth Plus Trade Union), Svetlana Slap\u0161ak (retired professor, classical philologist, anthropologist and writer) and Jadranka Vesel (Rise, Research Institute for Social Economy) generously shared their views on work, the contemporary worker, community and the future.[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

As part of BREZODRA<\/em> (Nagib) we are preparing a performative reading with the aim of resting during the day’s activities. The English text was created according to our instructions with the help of AI. It draws from selected passages of well-known fiction, especially science fiction literature and humanistic texts. Participants and workers are invited to relax while listening to gentle, sometimes radical, thoughts about utopian worlds and communities that live beyond the capabilities of our environment and social arrangements.[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Work in Progress<\/em> points to the need to rethink current forms of work and activity and to recognise, internalise and challenge certain patterns of behaviour and oppression. Ways of recovery and empowerment can be seen in knowledge sharing, community building and the creation of new living and working conditions. The dismantling of the existing hierarchy of values, which neglects the worker in favour of profit and false \u201cprogress\u201d, can be seen as the key to creating a more just world.<\/p>\n

Vesna Bukovec, Tia \u010ci\u010dek, Ana \u010cigon<\/em><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0We would like to thank the following for participating in the reading circle: Elvis Krstulovi\u0107, Iva Kova\u010d, Miha Kelemina and Ur\u0161ka Aplinc.
\n[2]<\/a>\u00a0At the exhibition in the \u0160kuc Gallery, we prepared a discussion about labour<\/a> and communities<\/a>, artist and writer Andrea Knezovi\u0107 prepared Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest | Full night artistic research event<\/a> about institutional interruptions, focused on the phenomena of sleep and rest, which we contemplate through performative forms of work.
\n[3]<\/a> For the science fiction literary suggestions, we thank Marie Andr\u00e9e-Pellerin<\/a>, for kindly sharing with us her database of sources created as part of her doctoral research.<\/div>\n

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Thanks: Petra Hazabent, Miha Horvat, Stefan Alex, Marie Andr\u00e9e-Pellerin, Petra Kolman\u010di\u010d, Peter Dobaj \/ Kulturni center Maribor, mag. Emica Anton\u010di\u010d \/ zalo\u017eba Aristej, Knji\u017enica Tete Rosa \/ Pekarna Magdalenske Mre\u017ee, Amelia Kraigher in Alvina \u017duraj \/ Zalo\u017eba \/*cf, Tanja Velagi\u0107 \/ Zalo\u017eba Sophia, dr. Maja Pen, \u017diva Kleindienst, Irena Bori\u0107, Klara Drnov\u0161ek Solina and to all other individuals who lent their books to the library.<\/p>\n

Organization: Dru\u0161tvo za kulturno produkcijo in afirmacijo umetni\u0161kih procesov NAGIB, GT22\/Fundacija Sonda<\/p>\n

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Utopian Rest (reading)
\nPhoto: RTV SLO screen grab
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\nExhibition view (photo: Ana \u010cigon)<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a><\/td>\n		Auditory rest and exhibition opening
\nGT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor, SI
\n18 March 2023, 4pm
\nExhibition on view till 7 April 2023<\/p>\n

Participating: Vesna Bukovec, Tia \u010ci\u010dek, Ana \u010cigon<\/p>\n

Event and exhibition are part of the BREZODRA (Nagib) programme.<\/p>\n

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