Talk and screening
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 8 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

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Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive.

Artist and film director Teja Miholič presents her film Neighbour’s Dog Is Crying What if the Neighbour Is Dead and a selection of works in which she recognized similar humour, pace, aesthetics or personal expression.

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In the film Neighbour’s Dog Is Crying What if the Neighbour Is Dead, I recorded audio recordings of all my worries, which I thought about on a random day when I was living in Toulouse, combined with my own and stock photos. This work is just one of my many attempts to deal with my problems by documenting them. Essential elements of my creation are humour, sincerity and analytical gathering of irrelevant information/things/photos.

Most of the selected videos in the programme are connected by humour, whether manifested in how the message is communicated (Important News, Bank of Celje: Prisoner), visual aesthetics (The Solar Collection, Insert from TV show New Year’s Disco) or performative actions. They share a straightforward approach to light, banal or difficult topics. In some works, artists deal with space (Square, Cultivation, For Sale, Why Slovenian Houses Look The Way They Do), in others with existence (The Sand Collectors), and in others with coexistence. Interventions in space and reflection on living in the city are also an important part of my artistic practice within the Kvadratni meter art collective and in my independent work. I can also find parallels in the naive or fairy-tale mode of narration of some selected videos (Ajiaco, For Sale, Why Slovenian Houses Look The Way They Do, The Sand Collectors) and the analytical collection of similar elements in others (Cyberstalking).

Teja Miholič

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PROGRAMME
Curator: Teja Miholič
Duration: 58′