DIVA Station & Nova Gorica City Gallery
Encounters with Contemporary Visual Art
Barbara Borčić:
What Television Can Be, And What Artists Can Use It For?
Lecture

January 28, 2014 at 7pm
Nova Gorica City Gallery, Bevkov trg 4

The lecture What Television Can Be, And What Artists Can Use It For? has surveyed artistic practices that are essentially concerned with the relation to television. Barbara Borčić, the leader of DIVA Station archive at SCCA-Ljubljana, will present the variety of ways in which artists have responded to television in a variety of media, techniques, and means of expression, challenging or exposing its conventions, especially its mediation and manipulation, or undermining the established codes and structures.

Some of the roles and functions of television are familiar to the point of being self-evident, while others cannot be anticipated but are recognized only through artistic intervention, such as TV object, signal & interference, making television, an artist in TV studio, TV studio in a gallery, frequencies, TV space, on-line & interactive TV…

Marko A. Kovačič, TV Objects, installation, 1990. Photo: Bojan Salaj

Through the examples of artistic interventions of Slovenian artists their awareness of the potential of media practices were analysed and the impact of their artworks to anticipate alternative cultural and social relations challenged.

The lecture is based on the text written for the Amuse Me exhibition catalogue published by City Art Gallery Ljubljana.

The series of three lectures in frame of Encounters with contemporary visual art prepared by Barbara Borčić, Ida Hiršenfelder and Saša Nabergoj in 2014 are the outcome of collaboration between SCCA-Ljubljana and City Gallery Nova Gorica.

Barbara Borčić  is an art historian who studied media studies and antropology at ISH (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – Post-graduate Humanistic Studies Faculty) in Ljubljana. Director of SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts−Ljubljana. She works as a curator, publicist and editor in the field of contemporary art.
 

Photos from the lecture
by Matej Vidmar

Spacial thanks for extending their invitation to Nova Gorica City Gallery, Pavla Jarc, and Mateja Poljšak Furlan.

More: http://kulturnidom-ng.si/dogodki-vpis/galerijski-dogodki/2014/predavanje/

Zavod SCCA–Ljubljana is supported by Ljubljana City Municipality, Department for Culture.

[Published January 6, 2014]