Projects of co-workers
Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA)
Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition
(part of 13th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns)

LA lab: March 7-10, 2012, every day 4 p.m. - midnight
LA exhibition: March 7-23, 2012
Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana

We are informing you about the participation of two SCCA-Ljubljana's co-workers at the project webmaster Bring In Take Out Living Archive.

Ida Hiršenfelder, assistant of SCCA video programs and DIVA Station, is participating at the open discussion Creating the Feminist Archive Means Facing The Real to the Most Extent (March 9, 2012). Vesna Bukovec, SCCA’s webmaster, is exhibiting two drawing series Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I'm critical (2012) and How to fail successfully (2011) at Alkatraz Gallery. Her video Endless Game is included in the Perpetum Mobile archive, which will also be screened at Alkatraz.

The Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA) takes and uses artistic, creative and research means and their intersecting strategies to create a contemporary art exhibition, laboratory and public archive of women artists and feminist art.

With the bring-in-take-out principle, the LA aims at creating an interactive platform for sharing and collaborative work in the digital and public space, in which the politics of remembering, contemporary art and translation of feminist knowledge happen.

The main referential backgrounds are contemporary art, feminist theory and practice, as well as post/Yugoslav space which function like a polis as defined by Hannah Arendt: "The polis, properly speaking, is not the city-state in its physical location; it is the organization of the people as it arises out of acting and speaking together, and its true space lies between people living together for this purpose, no matter where they happen to be" (The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958, p. 198.)

The LA tends to be transparent, socially engaged and methodologically innovative platform which gathers artists, researches and curators. The project evolves and processes trough LA editions in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Vienna and elsewhere. The concept further on develops with every new edition.

In Ljubljana we are continuing to map diverse feminist definitions and positions. Art works and a laboratory atmosphere will change a gallery space into an interactive platform for immediate inscribing of various histories, open for everyone.

Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series How to fail successfully, 2011

Alkatraz Gallery – transformed into a creative laboratory – presents: Perpetuum Mobile, a compilation of video works and other materials, an interactive art action by Vahida Ramujkuć and Aviv Kruglansky relating to the concept of an open archive as a paradigm for generating public space with new forms of socialization and two series of drawings by Vesna Bukovec discussing the representative aspect of contemporary feminism, exhibited in indirect relation to quotations and references from the Questionnaire.

In Kapelica Gallery, the archival art project GUESTures by Margareta Kern is presented. Everyone is welcomed to access the content and, as a temporary archivist, even with the most modest gestures, to re-actualize the forgotten history by personal narratives of women guest workers.

Perpetum Mobile presents video works by artists: Milica Tomić (Belgrade), Tina Smrekar (Ljubljana), Lana Čmajčanin (Sarajevo), Adela Jušić (Sarajevo), Flaka Haliti (Priština), Nela Hasanbegović (Sarajevo), Nika Autor (Ljubljana), Ana Hušman (Zagreb), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade), Bojana Jelenić (Belgrade) and the Internet browser video by Lina Dokuzović (Vienna), video documentation by Ana Hoffner (Belgrade/Vienna), Dina Rončević (Zagreb), Ana Čigon (Ljubljana), Nataša Teofilović (Pančevo), Gordana Anđelić-Galić (Sarajevo), Marina Radulj (Banja Luka) and Monika Ponjavić (Banja Luka), texts by Dunja Blažević (Sarajevo), text and photo documentation by Alenka Spacal (Ljubljana), posters by Tanja Ostojić (Belgrade/Berlin), photo documentation by Nela Milić (London) and Vanja Bučan (Amsterdam/Maribor), video stills by Marina Gržinić (Ljubljana/Vienna) and Aina Šmid (Ljubljana), comics by Nikoleta Marković (Belgrade), a film by Maja Prettner (Murska Sobota), digital format photos by Jelena Jureša (Novi Sad) and a poem by Andreja Dugandžić (Sarajevo)..

Questionnaire contributors: Nina Bunjevac (Toronto), Tanja Miletić Oručević (Mostar/Brno), Biljana Kašić (Zagreb/Zadar), Nade Kachakova (Skopje), Ksenija Forca (Belgrade), Rada Borić (Zagreb), Ana Vilenica (Pančevo/Belgrad), Tatjana Marjanović (Split), Azra Husanović (Vienna), Ida Hiršenfelder (Ljubljana), Masa Hilčišin (Sarajevo/Prague), Tea Hvala (Ljubljana), Jelena Jelača (Belgrade), Marina Gržinić (Ljubljana/Vienna), Ajla Demiragić (Sarajevo), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade/Barcelona), Maja Bogojević (Podgorica), Branka (Novi Sad), Lejla Somun-Krupalija
(Sarajevo), Merima Jašarević (Mostar), Dunja Blažević (Sarajevo), Lidija Radojević (Ljubljana), Lala Raščić (Sarajevo/Zagreb/New Orleans), Nela Milić (London), Ana Čigon (Štanjel/Ljubljana), Slađana Mitrović (Ljubljana).

Organized by: Red Min(e)d – Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović
Produced by: CRVENA Association for Culture and Art, Sarajevo and MINA – Institute for Socially Engaged Art and Theory, Ljubljana
Co-produced by: International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns(Ljubljana), Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana), Alkatraz Gallery (Ljubljana), Centre for Women's Studies (Zagreb)

Supported by: European Cultural Foundation

Ida Hiršenfelder (1977) is a critic for contemporary art, assistant of DIVA Station (Digital Video Archive) at SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana. She collaborates with – Ljudmila – Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, and Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Arts, and publishes texts at Radio Student, Dnevnik Daily, Art Worlds, Maska, and in exhibition catalogues.

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She works independently and in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.).
She presented her work in several solo (Centre and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, 2003 and 2005; Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, 2006; Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica, 2009; KAPSULA, Ljubljana, 2010; A+A Gallery, Venice, EX-garage, Maribor, 2011) and group exhibitions (25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana, 2003; Territories, Identities, Networks: Slovenian Art 1995–2005, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 2005; Kunsthaus, Graz, 2006; Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, 2008; U3 - 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Where do we go from here?, Secession, Vienna; Minimal Differences, White Box, New York, 2010 etc.).

[Published March 9, 2012]