Exhibition and presentation
Curator: Barbara Borčić
June 15– July 7, 2015
grey) (area space for contemporary and media art, Korčula, Croatia

Barbara Borčić, curator of the exhibition Race with Time 2. Performance in a Rear-view Mirror, selected works by eight artists (Martina Bastarda / Mateja Ocepek / Nataša Skušek, Mateja Bučar, Ana Čigon, Tomaž Furlan, Marko A. Kovačič, Miha Vipotnik) from SCCA’s DIVA Station, video and new media archive. In frame of the exhibition, the presentation DIVA Station – archiving of images and time by the curator took place accompanied by screening of DIVA at Škuc Gallery, a video essay by Nika Grabar.

Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2015
Co-production: grey) (area

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Videospotting at MSU Zagreb
Exhibition and projection on media facade

October 30 – November 10, 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb, Croatia

The DIVA Station will be hosting at MSU Zagreb with a presentation and a workshop. The collaborators of DIVA Station (SCCA-Ljubljana) Barbara Borčić, Dušan Dovč, Ida Hiršenfelder and Nika Grabar will present the procedures of production, historisation and functioning of DIVA Station, the archive of video and media art in Slovenia. On that occasion DIVA at Škuc Gallery, a video essay by Nika Grabar presenting the topic of archiving as “the preservation of memory”, will be shown.

Beside that two video programmes will meet their premiere at MSU Zagreb: Industrial Landscape curated by Miha Colner and Feedback Loop curated by Ida Hiršenfelder.

Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2014
Co-production: MSU Zagreb

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The exhibition Race with Time. Performance in a Rear-view Mirror, curated by Barbara Borčić, demonstrated the relationship between performance art and video art that could be schematically demonstrated by four modes: 1) video as a document of performance, 2) video as a part of performance / performance as a part of video, 3) (video) performance, staged only for the camera, and 4) performance made possible only through video, its expressive and technological possibilities for processing and editing.

Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2014

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

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The series of three lectures in frame of Encounters with contemporary visual art prepared by Barbara Borčić, Ida Hiršenfelder and Saša Nabergoj in 2014 are the outcome of collaboration between SCCA-Ljubljana and City Gallery Nova Gorica.

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Barbara Borčić: What Television Can Be, And What Artists Can Use It For?
January 28, 2014 at 7pm
Nova Gorica City Gallery, Bevkov trg 4

The first lecture has surveyed artistic practices that are essentially concerned with the relation to television. Barbara Borčić, the leader of DIVA Station archive at SCCA-Ljubljana, will present the variety of ways in which artists have responded to television in a variety of media, techniques, and means of expression, challenging or exposing its conventions, especially its mediation and manipulation, or undermining the established codes and structures.

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Marko A. Kovačič, TV Objects, installation, 1990. Photo: Bojan Salaj

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Ida Hiršenfelder: Endless Plane. The dimensions of video space and the art of projection
February 25, 2014 at 7pm
Nova Gorica City Gallery, Bevkov trg 4

The second lecture is going to deal with projection as a medium and a building block of the experience of space in contemporary art. Ida Hiršenfelder, an art critic, theorist of media art, curator, and a member of DIVA Station digital video archive is going to talk about video space.

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Marko Batista, Boštjan Čadež: Timing Diagrams, Old Power Plant, Ljubljana, Production: Aksioma, 2011

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Special thanks for extending their invitation to Nova Gorica City Gallery, Pavla Jarc, and Mateja Poljšak Furlan.

Presentation & screening

Thursday, November 14, at 7 pm
Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

In frame of the exhibition … Was ist Kunst? … Resuming Fragmented Histories, Sept. 22– Nov. 21, 2013

The presentation will focus on the cultural/artistic practices of the Ljubljana Alternative Scene in the eighties, a conglomerate of artistic and cultural protagonists and new social and theoretical movements (peace, ecologist, feminist, gay and lesbian; New Left, Post-Structuralism and Lacanianism) which eventually constituted a civil society. While video and multimedia practices formed its constitutive part as well as its (media) effect, the Škuc Gallery as an important protagonist of the scene introduced the concept of expanded visual arts and was actually the space where Raša Todosijević presented his work/poster Was ist Kunst (Marinela Koželj) in 1981 and produced a strong impact on Slovene artists and their artistic practices.

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