Lectures, screening, installation and performance
Web site DIVA Station

October 27th, 2011, 6pm till 10pm
Kapelica Gallery, Kersnikova 4, Ljubljana

Creating physical and virtual, analogue and digital archives is a necessary tool to enable us a reflexion on contemporary art production. UNESCO has adopted 27 October as the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage to better focus on the meaning of audio-visual materials and their carriers, and to provide an incentive to protect and maintain these documents which are an essential part of cultural heritage.

SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana tries to address an overall debate about Slovenian video art and new-media practice with research, documentation, presentation, education and archive programmes to preserve movable cultural heritage. Ever since 2005 we are preparing international seminars to seek for answers concerning the field of archiving AV materials.

This year we will ask ourselves about the meaning of audiovisual archives and officially launch the web page of video and media art DIVA Station (www.e-arhiv.org/diva).

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Screening and lecture

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, at 8pm
K2 Contemporary Art Center
Cumhuriyet Blv.No:54
Büyük Kardicali Han, Kat:2 Konak-IZMIR, Turkey

As an accompanying event of the international project and platform Open Studio Izmir organized by SCCA-Ljubljana and K2 Contemporary Art Center from Izmir, Videospotting will be screened in the Center.

(Image: Jasna Hribernik & Zmago Lenardič, Elsa und Lohengrin, 3′, VPK, 1997)

SCCA-Ljubljana will prepare a presentation of Videospotting, series of survey and thematic programs of video art in Slovenia and presentations (exhibitions, screenings, lectures) in Slovenia and worldwide. Barbara Borčić, curator in critic, video and performance art specialist, director of SCCA-Ljubljana, will present one of the curated video programs focused on dance video Videodance_6.

OPEN STUDIO IZMIR is an interdisciplinary project and platform with screenings, discussions, presentations and workshop with a focus on videodance and sound art. Open Studio is conceived as a collaborative project between SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana (Slovenia) and K2 – Contemporary Art Center from Izmir (Turkey).

SUPPORT
The project is supported by K2 Contemporary Art Center, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture.
Special thanks to Ayşegül Kurtel and Selin Demirhan from K2. The whole project is organized within the framework of K2’s guest studio program.

Presentation of video art in Slovenia and screening program

Thursday, April 28, 2011, at 7 pm
LUX, 3rd Floor
Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ, London, UK

You are kindly invited to attend a presentation of video art in Slovenia accompanied by screening on Thursday, 28th April at 7pm within the program LUX Salons at LUX (London).

A short history and context for artists’ video in Slovenia, the media archive DIVA Station and the work of SCCA-Ljubljana will be presented by SCCA’s director Barbara Borčić and curator and critic Miha Colner.

The presentation will be accompanied with the screening of video program DIVA Station_Presents (2009), curated by Barbara Borčić, Miha Colner and Ida Hiršenfelder. DIVA Station_Presents is chronologically selected video program includes 15 videos, which present important shifts in understanding and usage of video as a means of expression from 1983 to 2007.

LUX Salon takes place at LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ. See www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html for directions.
Admission free, booking is essential – to book a place email salon@lux.org.uk!

Special thanks to
LUX & Benjamin Cook for hosting the presentation of DIVA Station and for organizing the video screening.

SCCA-Ljubljana program is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana.

Video screening. Accompanying event of the festival Spring Forward

Friday–sunday, 25–27 March, 2011, from 10 am
Spanish Fighters – Cultural Center/Internacionala, Zaloška 61, Ljubljana

Aerowaves Spring Forward is the first ever compact format gathering for new European dance. In a helter-skelter celebration, 22 companies from 13 countries will perform works of 15-40 minutes in 5 theatres over 3 days. These artists are eager to show their pieces to a new, informed audience and meet each other; and presenters, organisers and the Ljubljana public will grasp the unique opportunity to see what’s new in dance.

As the accompanying event in the Spanish Fighters – Cultural Center, SCCA-Ljubljana will prepare video screening of curated video program Videodance_6 (2008) and thus give an opportunity to the visitors and performers for creative and non-formal gathering during the festival, before and after the performances. The selection Videodance_6 is a part of the program Videospotting.

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Evenings of Intermedia Arts
DIVA Station
Demonstration of physical and web archive of video art in Slovenia

Tuesday, January 11, at 6 pm
Trubar Literature House, Stritarjeva 7, Ljubljana

DIVA Station is starting with the series of demonstration in 2011 at the Trubar Literature House. Barbara Borčić in Ida Hiršenfelder, heads of the archive, will present the context and purpose of DIVA archive.

The presentation will be followed by the screening of the video essay Digital Video Archive (script, camera, editing, and text: Nika Grabar, 16 min, production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2009). Video essay was produced in the framework of the study exhibition Diva at Škuc Gallery in 2009. The author says: “Archiving is really keeping some kind of memory alive. DIVA is trying to find memory for images and enable us to think the space of art. Without it we are caught in the image of a world that is reproducing us in a mechanical way.”

The event is part of the program Evenings of Intermedia Arts of the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

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