DIVA Station and National Theatre Museum/Institute
Models of AV archiving, experiences, networking and political will
Panel discussion at the exhibition Race with Time. Performance in a Rear-view Mirror

Thursday, June 12 at 7 pm
Slovenski gledališki inštitut (National Theatre Museum/Institute), Mestni trg 17, Ljubljana

Concept: Barbara Borčić, Primož Jesenko
Moderators: Dušan Dovč, Ida Hiršenfelder
Guests: Barbara Borčić, Jurij Krpan, Primož Jesenko, Rok Vevar

Documentation and archive are prerequisite for any historisation and interpretation of video art and performance art, which also enable exhibitions and other presentations. SCCA began integrating time-based art (apart from video) into its DIVA Station archive as early as 2012.

To emphasise the meaning of audio-visual archives and their accessibility SCCA conducts research, curates exhibitions and organises educational seminars in order to present the local circumstances, compare them to successful international practices, and establish long term collaborations. We work on the premises that in the present day documentation and archiving are necessary for the understanding of contemporary visual and media art practices. Establishing archives, promoting their use, accessibility, dissemination and defining their ownership are important questions that are still not sufficiently present in the Slovenian cultural environment. We have set ourselves a task to present significant archival models (experimental, systematic, partial) that are already in use, to address and promote their functionalities and mutual interconnections. Furthermore, we wish to support and promote the practice of open and constructive exchange and collaboration, and trigger the institutional change, i.e. to make possible the integration of the media/video art archives in the sector of the national cultural heritage.

The idea to stage the exhibition and panel discussion Race with Time. Performance in a Rear-view Mirror precisely in the National Theatre Museum/Institute is a result of shared somewhat mutual dilemmas and future plans, even though not under similar conditions of operation; and most of all, we all feel the need to connect various archives and initiatives in Slovenia in order to mutually strive for appropriate conceptual and financial conditions that would allow for the archives to (co)exist and operate, whether they be institutional or private, professional or artistic …

MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION AND PANEL:
www.scca-ljubljana.si/arhiv/news-en_14-19.htm

CREDITS

Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2014

Co-production: Slovenski gledališki inštitut (National Theatre Museum/Institute)

Support: Ljubljana Municipality, Department for Culture, 2014
Thanks: Center projekcije, Strip Core c/o Forum Ljubljana, KUD Mreža/Alkatraz Gallery, Galerija Kapelica

[Published June 11, 2014]