DIVA Station
DIVA Station on Tour
Presentation of archive,
screening of video program and discussion
With curator Barbara Borčič, advisor and head of video programs at SCCA-Ljubljana and Los Angeles based artist Nataša Prosenc Stearns

Wednesday, November 16, 7–9pm
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, United States

The program will include the presentation of DIVA Station – an archive of Slovene video art produced by SCCA-Ljubljana and a screening of curated program DIVA Station Presents No 3.

Nancy Buchanan, Los Angeles based artist and curator, and Kathy Rae Huffman, artist, curator and writer, will join the discussion.

Barbara Borčić will present DIVA Station, the archive of video and media art in Slovenia, accompanied by DIVA at Škuc Gallery, a video essay by Nika Grabar presenting the topic of archiving as “the preservation of memory”.

Diva in Škuc Gallery, foto: Dejan Habicht

DIVA STATION PRESENTS NO 3

Curator: Barbara Borčić
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2016
Duration: 66 minutes
Premiere: LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, November 16, 2016

The program consists of 17 video works and is divided into three sections.
 
From analogue to digital
Miha Vipotnik: Space 2, 1986, 1’53’’
Ana Čigon: One More Kick, 2009, 4’35’’
Sašo Sedlaček: Veliki izklop / The Big Switch Off, 2011, 1’48’’
Luka Dekleva: Singing Bridges, 2008, 4’14’’
Vesna Bukovec: Important News, 2003, 54’’
Nika Špan: How to Socialise the Blues?, 2007, 1’58’’

From memory to fiction
Marko A. Kovačič: Naprej v preteklost / Forth into the Past, 1995, 9’30’’
Valerie Wolf Gang: Distant Memory, 2014, 2’43’’
Miha Vipotnik: Path of Crazy Wisdom, 1993, 9'58''

From impression to digression
Emil Memon: Schizophrenia / Blue movie, 1983/95, 5’37’’
Nataša Prosenc Stearns: The Noise Factor, 2012, 3’15’’
Urška Djukić: Persistence 2, 2014, 1’22’’
Neven Korda: Jesensko tihožitje / An Autumnal Still Life, 2002, 4’05’’
Zvonka T Simčič: Broken h-h-h…egg, 2000, 1’
Ana Čigon: Finger in U.S., 2010, 2’15’’
Jasna Hribernik: Tense Present: Šum fotonov / Tense Present: Photon Noise, 2015, 1’18’’
Andrej Lupinc: V 8. minutah okoli sveta / In Eight Minutes Around the World, 1990-2000, 9’35’’

Intro text (pdf)

Program (pdf)

Cover image composed of: Ana Čigon: One More Kick, 2009, Miha Vipotnik: Path of Crazy Wisdom, 1993 and Nataša Prosenc Stearns: The Noise Factor, 2012.

DIVA Station is a compendium of projects that seek to explore, preserve and disseminate Slovenian video/new-media art. It is being developed since 2005 at SCCA-Ljubljana with documentation and archive as well as research and curated programs that are accessible on-line and are open for cooperation. Today DIVA Station includes archive and mediateque with over 1000 video works by local and international artists, documents of events and works from European media archives.
We constantly add newly acquired works to the archive and promote an overall understanding of artistic oeuvre and video/media practices by organising discussions, presentations and exhibitions.
More: DIVA on-line

Barbara Borčić
Art historian and media theorist, advisor at SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts and head of video programs and video archive DIVA Station.  She is active as a curator, lecturer and publicist. She has regularly lectured and published texts, e.g. Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism, Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991 (Massachusetts: MIT Press 2003); What Television Can Be, And What Artists Can Use It For, Amuse Me (Ljubljana: Mestna galerija, 2013); The ŠKUC Gallery, Alternative Culture, and Neue Slowenische Kunst in the 1980s, NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst – The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (Ljubljana: Moderna galerija & Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2015). She is the author of the book Celostna umetnina Laibach. Fragmentarni pogled [Gesamtkunst Laibach. Fragmentary View], (Ljubljana: Založba/*cf, 2013).

Nataša Prosenc Stearns
A Slovenian born video artist and filmmaker. She moved to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Grant to pursue her MFA at CalArts. She is also a recipient of the Soros and Durffee Grants. Her work was shown at ARCO Madrid, in Douloun Museum of Art in Shanghai, in Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel, as part of the program of The European Capital of Culture and in numerous venues and festivals in the USA. Nataša exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale. First she represented Slovenia at the 48th Biennale, and last year she was part of the Biennale’s collateral exhibition 20 Artists from Los Angeles presented by bardoLA.
More: www.natasastearns.com

Co-production: SCCA-Ljubljana / DIVA Station, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator: Barbara Borčić
Video preparation: Neža Grum, Luka Polutnik, Toni Poljanec
Web support: Vesna Bukovec
Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Thanks: Sarah Russin, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Nancy Buchanan, Kathy Rae Huffman, Miha Štrukelj, and artists

[Published: November 3, 2016]