Activities of SCCA-Ljubljana collaborators
Idi+Vidi 1.0
Mini video festival

November 30 & December 1, 2011
Peek&Poke Museum, Ulica Ivana Grohovca 2, Rijeka, Croatia

We are informing you about the exhibition project of art group KOLEKTIVA, co-organized by Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster.

Kolektiva Institute was invited by Lara Badurina from A3 association to present it’s screening programs in Rijeka, Croatia. The artists decided to prepare a mini video festival entitled Idi+Vidi 1.0 (Go+See 1.0). In the frame of this new festival Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič from Kolektiva Institute will present three international video selections with a comon theme of ‘performance for video’. The selections were part of Kolektiva Institute’s programs Video Evening and Video in Progress.

Mini festival Idi+Vidi is produced by A3 association (Lara Badurina, Tanja Golić i Nino Sorić) from Rijeka, Croatia.

PROGRAM

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Video Evening #01: Press Play_Taking on Performance

Artists: Inger Alfnes (NO), Alexandra Gerbaulet (DE), Jacqueline Forzelius (SE), Louise Menzies (NZ), Martine Stig (NL), Segundo de Chomón (ES), Ruth Buchanan (NZ), Ruth Legg (UK), Rajkumar Santoshi (IN)
Selected by: ADA Rotterdam (NL)
Total screening time: 01:04:52

Press Play_Taking on Performance is the second part of KOLEKTIVA, Calling? a video correspondence between ADA Rotterdam (NL) and KOLEKTIVA (SI).

As the first part of this correspondence, ADA hosted a film evening presenting KOLEKTIVA’s selection of art videos from the project Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative, which reflected on the subject of ‘performing for the camera’.

KOLEKTIVA’s selection included videos featuring various formal and conceptual premises present in heterogeneous interpretation of performance in relation to motion picture within contemporary visual art. It is in response to this selection of videos, the Fields of the Performative, that ADA has in turn prepared their video response back to KOLEKTIVA. The resulting collection of videos is entitled Press Play_Taking on Performance.
It is a self-organized, independent artists initiative formed in September 2008 to support, nurture, stimulate and to create space for critical reflection and debate in and about art, in an open, cross-disciplinary minded and a friendly environment. At the core of ADA are the art practices of six Rotterdam based artists (Deirdre M. Donoghue, Esmé Valk, Gerwin Luijendijk, Maja Bekan, Margo Onnes, Sjoerd Westbroek) who also run ADA’s public program.

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Video Evening #03: Contextual Face

Artists: Dominique Buchtala (DE), Vesna Bukovec (SI), Ana Grobler (SI), Guerrilla Girls (US), Michelle Handelman (US), Kika Nicolela (BR), Grace Graupe Pillard (US), Angelika Rinnhofer (DE/US), Duba Sambolec (SI/NO), Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI), Alison Williams (ZA), Liana Zanfrisco (IT)
Selected by: Evelin Stermitz (AT/SI)
Tootal screening time: 00:41:42

For the third Video Evening KOLEKTIVA invited artist and curator Evelin Stermitz to prepare a curated selection from ArtFem.TV, her online television programming presenting art and feminism.

About the selection
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.

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Thursday, Decmber 1, 2011

Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative (selected videos)

Artists: Chris Dupuis (CA), Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Viktor Schaider (A), Željko Jančić Zec (HR/A), Gerwin Luijendijk (NL), Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu & Emilio Corti (I), Maria Petschnig (A/USA), Joshua and Zachary Sandler (USA), Attila Urbán (SE)
Selected by: KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič, Lada Cerar)
Tootal screening time: 00:40:32

The screening is a selection from the third edition of Video in Progress exhibition project. Video in Progress 3: Fields of the performative was the result of international competition on the subject of performance for video. 46 selected videos featuring various formal and conceptual premises presented heterogeneous interpretation of performance in relation to motion picture within the contemporary visual art. Everything from regular performance in front of audience in a gallery to an exhibitionist and voyeuristic presentation of a body as an aesthetic object, absurd actions, exploration of identity, social and political roles, subjective views, narratives and the creation of film or documentary atmosphere.

Selected videos
Video in Progress 3

Production: Udruga A3, Rijeka
Coproduction: Kolektiva Institute, Ljubljana
Location: Muzej Peek&Poke, Rijeka

[Published November 29, 2011]