The Dump - Recycling of Thoughts

April 24–May 30, 2010
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland

We are informing you about the participation of Vesna Bukovec (SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster) at the group exhibition in Poland.

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.

More about the exhibition

Vesna Bukovec produced a series of 5 drawings entitled I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same. Following Maurice Benayoun's post To Change the World from June 18, 2008 in which he suggests to make a catalogue of all the things in our environment that can be changed by our activity she started to think about the level of moral responsibility of contemporary (western) individual. Her project is not just a realization of an idea from the blog, but an interpretation that critically and ironically deals with the social / political / environmental activities initiated by social networks on the internet.

More about the project

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA together with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič. In recent years she has presented her works at numerous group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Slovenj Gradec, Zagreb, Belgrade, Utrecht, Athens, Berlin, den Haag, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna etc. She has also staged solo exhibitions in Ljubljana - in the Centre and gallery P74 (2003 and 2005), Gallery Nova in Zagreb and in Likovni Salon in Celje (both in 2004), Gallery Simulaker in Novo mesto and Gallery Meduza in Koper (both in 2006), Gallery Škuc in Ljubljana (2007) and Art Gallery UGM in Maribor (2008).