{"id":1058,"date":"2022-02-03T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videospotting.org\/eng\/?page_id=1058"},"modified":"2022-02-09T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:24:29","slug":"back2back-jake-yuzna-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.videospotting.org\/eng\/back2back-jake-yuzna-2021","title":{"rendered":"Back2Back: Jake Yuzna (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back2Back: Jake Yuzna \u2013 The Alternative Is Hard To See
\nCurator: Jake Yuzna
\nProduction:<\/strong> SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
\nDuration:<\/strong> 87\u2019 (including the talk)
\nPremiere:<\/strong> online screening (6.\u20139. 5. 2021)<\/p>\n

Back2Back<\/strong> is a new type of event within the curated Videospotting programs, where we invite domestic and international authors at various stages of their creative path to present their own production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. We will invite mostly artists who do not yet have their works in the archive. Before the screening, we will prepare short conversations with them, which will shed light on their own authorial focuses and reveal why they were addressed by selected works. The program was designed with the aim of opening the archive to artistic research, which, together with the presentation of their own practice, establishes interesting parallels to classical curatorial approaches.<\/p>\n

To the second event, we invited artist, film author, and curator Jake Yuzna<\/strong>, a Fulbright fellow in 2020, and a guest at research residency in the archives of the DIVA Station at SCCA-Ljubljana.
\n______<\/p>\n

In America, we don\u2019t have alternative culture. Instead, our transgressive and progressive movements \u2013 namely counter-culture and underground culture \u2013 exist in relation to the dominant culture they rebel against. Their forms are forever shaped by the very thing they work to oppose and subvert. Unlike its American counterpoint, Slovenian alternative culture avoids such trappings.<\/p>\n

Existing simultaneously within and outside of dominant culture, alternative culture complicates these relationships. Bubbling with mutant ruptures, it is amorphic, ever-shifting, and ungovernable. It is a place where the boundaries that define culture are unmoored and break down. In the resulting fissures new spaces, forms, and paths appear.<\/p>\n

Gathered together, this selection of works loosely traces a trajectory of alternatives found within the DIVA archive. Whether documents of Radio \u0160tudent and Klub Tiffany, experiments in form, or ecstatic celebrations, these works collectively construct a history of alternative paths, positions, and spaces. Taken together, they make visible the radical potential alternatives have for instigating change \u2013 of both the personal and public varieties.<\/p>\n

Like Slovenian culture itself, the subtle power of the alternative lies in its ability to stand apart. It is a unquietly powerful vantage point that reveals new languages and new visions with which transformative potential can be realized. The alternative to our past, present, and future continues to lurk all around us. The only question that remains is if we want to see it.<\/p>\n

Jake Yuzna<\/em><\/p>\n

Sa\u0161o Sedla\u010dek, The Big Switch Off<\/em><\/strong>, 1\u2032 48\u201d
\nAksioma, 2011
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Sa\u0161o<\/p>\n

Rok Sieberer \u2013 Kuri, Kres II. Razstava<\/em><\/strong>, 1\u2032 20\u201d
\nV.S.\u2013D.V., 1990
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Rok<\/p>\n

Neven Korda, Dario Sereval, Zemira Alajbegovi\u0107, The Wild Bunch (Borghesia)<\/em><\/strong>, 2\u2032 56\u201d
\nFV Video\/\u0160KD Forum, 1984
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Borghesia,<\/p>\n

Jurij Korenc, Oddaja o Radiu \u0160tudent<\/em><\/strong>, 4\u2032 45\u201d
\nStudio 37, 1988
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Jurij<\/p>\n

Rok Sieberer \u2013 Kuri, Preve\u010d slepi, da bi videli\/Too Blind To See<\/em><\/strong>, 6\u2032 42\u201d
\nMedia Teror, 2000
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Rok<\/p>\n

Neven Korda, Renewal<\/em><\/strong>, 5\u2032 28\u201d
\nFV Video\/\u0160kuc Forum, 1983
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Neven<\/p>\n

Val\u00e9rie Wolf Gang, Distant Memory<\/em><\/strong>, 2\u2032 43\u201d
\nV.WG., 2014
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Val\u00e9rie<\/p>\n

Alenka Pirman, Close Your Eyes and Watch<\/em><\/strong>, 47\u201d
\nDru\u0161tvo za doma\u010de raziskave, SCCA-Ljubljana, 2006
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Alenka<\/p>\n

Neven Korda, 1 Sec of My Life (English version)<\/em><\/strong>, 1\u2032 31\u201d
\nN.K., 2001
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Neven<\/p>\n

Yuliya Molina, Nenad<\/em><\/strong>, 5\u2032 34\u201d
\nLuksuz produkcija, 2017
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Yuliya<\/p>\n

Gorazd Krnc, No Title Yet<\/em><\/strong>, 8\u2032 30\u201d
\nz.guba produkcija, 2000
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Gorazd<\/p>\n

Ana Sluga, Away<\/em><\/strong>, 1\u2032 13\u201d
\nA.S., 2006
\n\u00bb video<\/a>
\n\"Ana<\/p>\n

Jake Yuzna, The Alternative Can Be Hard to See<\/em><\/strong>, 4\u2032 10\u201d
\nJ.Y., 2021
\n\"Jake<\/p>\n

Jake Yuzna<\/strong>\u00a0(1982) is an artist, filmmaker, and curator from Minneapolis, USA. Their debut feature,\u00a0OPEN<\/em>, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival where it became the first American film to receive the Teddy Jury Prize. In addition, Yuzna\u2019s work has been presented by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Red Cat, British Film Institute, Strelka, as well as at the Cannes, Berlin, Oberhausen, and London Film Festivals, among others. For this work, Yuzna has received grants and awards from the American Film Institute, Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, Jerome Foundation, Frameline Foundation, Creative Time, McKnight Foundation, IFP, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yuzna founded the cinema program at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC) and the Inclusive and Socially Conscious Filmmaking Lab at FilmNorth (Minneapolis). They have curated projects for Performa: The NYC Biennial of Performance Art, the Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, the City of Los Angeles, and Queeruption. They are the author of\u00a0THE FUN: The Social Practice of Nightlife in NYC<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0NYC Makers<\/em>\u00a0as well as a contributor to Artforum.
\nwww.jakeyuzna.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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