Series of survey and thematic programs of video art in Slovenia and presentations (exhibitions, screenings, lectures) in Slovenia and worldwide
Lawinia Rate is Berlin-based art historian, critic, author and curator. In May 2019 she was hosted by SCCA-Ljubljana researching its DIVA Station video archive. Within the research she has prepared new curated video programe In Praise of Dreams. Video-art from the 90s. The screening premiere took place at the Project Room SCCA on 29 May 2019.
One-day program entitled Artists Film includes projections of films and videos, and talks about the artists film and its position in the world of film and contemporary art. It is organized by Galerija Podroom KCB which focuses on moving images in its program. As part of the program, Barbara Borčić and Peter Cerovšek, collaborators of the DIVA Station video archive, will present various aspects and themes related to artists film and video in the past and today. For the event, Borčić also prepared a video selection titled Video Discipline & Dreams, which will be featured along with a selection of artists films from the latest edition of Artists Film International on the theme of gender and the program of Iranian video.
A selection of videos with the elements of documentaries
Short Film Night: Friday, 21 December 2018, from 6pm
Video screening from DIVA Station: 9pm
Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva 28, Ljubljana
On 21th of December, the winter solstice and the longest night of the year, SCCA-Ljubljana joins the initiative of promoting and supporting short films for the forth time. The Short Film Night 2018 hosted by the Slovene Cinematheque offers numerous programmes showing an abundant selection of short films. The diverse display of short films will last all the way to the early hours.
A selection of works from DIVA Station entitled Recordings of Reality – Subjectivization of Objectivity, prepared by Toni Poljanec will be shown at 9 pm.
Participating artists: Damijan Kracina & Katarina Toman Kracina, Noemi Veberič Levovnik, Polonca Lovšin, Pila Rusjan, Keiko Miyazaki, Danilo Milovanović, Maja Hodošček, 3kolektiv (Maša Gala, Eva Kastelic, Katja Felle), Miha Mohorič
Friday, 11 May 2018, at 8pm
MM Centar Zagreb, Savska cesta 25, Zagreb
Within the program Klubvizija SC in Zagreb, DIVA Station presented a curated video program by Anita Budimir entitled The world is obliged to live you II. Video art selection presents works which displays broad possibilities of video appropriation practices, technique of finding new concepts by selecting, combining and manipulating old audiovisual materials – the so called archival, appropriated or found footages.
Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Neven Korda, Damijan Kracina, Gorazd Krnc, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Mirko Simić and Borghesia.
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Performative lecture as curated video program
Wednesday, 25 April 2018, at 8pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
The performative lecture Faces + Structures by German performer, dramaturgue and theorist Christopher Krause, was based on the reserach of DIVA Station video archive.
Video art by itself historically implicates a kind of crossover between the logic of the artistic image and the image of mass media. Faces + Structures tries to actualize this artistic aprproach by addresseing the fundamental split of the gaze in somebody who watches: the spectator/artist; and something that is watched: the artwork. The lecture deals with this split in an essayistic way, in order to ask what it can mean for the role of artistic production today and what it can mean to talk about artworks.