Projects of co-workers
Video in Progress 6:
We Are All People After All
Screening
The program is part of Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2016 festival.

Opening: Tuesday, June 14 at 8 pm
Screening hours: Wednesday, June 15 from 11am til 8 pm
Alkatraz Gallery, AKC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

We would like to inform you about the sixth edition of the international selection Video in Progress organised by the members of KOLEKTIVA art group Metka Zupanič and Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster and co-worker of DIVA Station.

The sixth edition of the international selection Video in Progress was made under influence of large migrations, which took place on our territory last year. Masses of traumatized people fleeing war, violence and poverty were crossing our national border along their Balkan route. European countries have responded with repression and closing of borders. Throughout this time, the prevailing political and media discourse was based on issues of safety for local inhabitants, whereas the safety and human rights of the incomers were being repeatedly and systematically breached. Hyped fear mongering by media and politicians is responsible for the extreme growth of xenophobia and hate speech in the local public discourse over the past year.

To confront these developments, we are presenting this selection of works with strong humanistic message by both prominent and young international artists. Their videos explore, in a subjective manner, topics such as war, refugee and migrant experience, political manipulation, violence at the hands of the national bureaucratic apparatus, and the universal search for a better future.

Video in Progress is part of the Photonic Moments – Month of Photography festival since 2014.

Participating: Adel Abidin (IQ/FI), Selda Asal (TR), Zanny Begg (AU) & Oliver Ressler (AT), Jelena Ilić Todorović (BA), Maryam Kashkoolinia (IR), Toni Poljanec & Tina Glavič Novak (SI), Oliver Ressler (AT), Marko Tadić (HR), Undrawing the Line (Mona Moradveisi, Safdar Ahmed, Zanny Begg, Murtaza Ali Jafari) (AU)

Curators: Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič

PROGRAM:

• Maryam Kashkoolinia, That’s Mine!, 2015, 6’15”
• Adel Abidin, Common Vocabulary, 2006, 4’
• Toni Poljanec & Tina Glavič Novak, Hope and Despair (shorter version), 2016, 14’27”
• Marko Tadić, Borne by the Birds, 2013, 13’28”
• Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, The Right of Passage, 2013, 19’
• Jelena Ilić Todorović, Imperativ, 2015, 6’36”
• Undrawing the Line (Mona Moradveisi, Safdar Ahmed, Zanny Begg, Murtaza Ali Jafari), The Swamp, 2016, – 21’42”
• Selda Asal, Next Turn & I dream, but …, 2009, 12’15”
• Oliver Ressler, Emergency Turned Upside-Down, 2016, 16’12”

Total screening time is 120 minutes.

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[Published: June 7, 2016]