Cinéma Féministe
The Face / La Face / OBRAZ
Video screenings

Thursday, 11 November, 2010 at 8 pm
Thursday, 25 November, 2010 at 10 pm
Udarnik Cinema, Grajski trg 1, 2000 Maribor

SCCA-Ljubljana web-master, Vesna Bukovec is participating artist at the video screenings in Udarnik Cinema. From the data base of the video programming online platform ArtFem.TV, a monthly selection of works is screened at the cinema Udarnik in Maribor, Slovenia. The selection of works is chosen each month on an issue of contexts in the feminist field by Evelin Stermitz

Program for November and December 2010
The Face / La Face / OBRAZ

Various women artists are including their own face as an iconographic object and symbol bearer in their art works, or using the face of others, the former photographic portrait, transcending into the moving image. This video series addresses variant meanings of the woman’s face in a context of women’s issues when embedded in a socio-cultural heritage. The face can be seen as more then a signifier of our cultural norms, in the context of women often foregrounded not only as indicator for individual remembrance, not only associated to cultural norms such as beauty stereotypes, objectification of commodified women in advertisements, and not only as a surface for self-creation when mirroring the self to others, but read as political text and statement in a broader context.

Vesna Bukovec is participating with the video Endless Game.

Vesna Bukovec, Endless Game, 2006, video still

More info:

• Program Cinéma Féministe, November-December (pdf)
• zavodudarnik.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/serija-cinema-feministe
• www.vesna-bukovec.net/eng/archives/1059

Curator: Evelin Stermitz
Artists: Duba Sambolec, Michelle Handelman, Ana Grobler, Liana Zanfrisco, Kika Nicolela, Vesna Bukovec, Alison Williams, Angelika Rinnhofer, Donna Kuhn, Iris Selke, Grace Graupe Pillard, Dominique Buchtala, Guerrilla Girls, and Evelin Stermitz
Organizer: Kino Udarnik
Partner in coproducer: ArtFem.TV in collaboration with son:DA

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 (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Novo Mesto, Ribnica, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona... Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony being a frequently used artistic strategy.

[Published November 22, 2010]