° <b>Not Where from but Where to…</b> , 20
October - 7 November 2010<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Opening: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">19
October</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">19.00
pm</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Project
curator: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Alenka Gregori<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">č</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Participating
artists: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Nika Autor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Nemanja
Cvijanović</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Vuk Ćosić <span><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Katarina
Zdjelar </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It is easy to say that the society we live in today is
driven by the power of money. The power relations – which are created through
the channels of capital driven society – are in hands of a few subjects keeping
not only their strategic positions but also manipulating media, politics and
economics. Of course, this is no longer news and for the last few of decades it
is accepted as just part of our reality. The constraints of these power driven
relations are commonplace and their effects are obvious. However, the
revolutionary spirit of 1968, the idea of changing the established order in
various social spheres of life and giving the voice to the ones outside the
power structures is, although faint, still alive today. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I would say that there is still a common ground for
revolutionary thinking, but it is – in a way – articulated through local
territorial, geographical and political units. Because the world is rushing
towards a globally oriented society, acting locally raises questions which
could change the reality of many – but on a small(er) scale. In the last few
years we can trace the growth of art initiatives and projects that eschew the
globally oriented for the locally specific. Artists are often responding to
their immediate social and political environment, raising questions about the
microcosms they live and work in. We could easily call them small-scale
revolutionaries because they are questioning their immediate social and
political surroundings. These micro-revolutions featured in their artworks,
whether documenting the foundation of political parties, tracing the graphical
representations of borders, or examining the local media representation of
marginalised people, render the effects of the global through the contours of
the local.</span></p>
<br><p><span lang="EN-US">Information on the artists:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Nika Autor</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Postcards</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Experimental film, PAL DVD,
2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The film is trying to expose
the absurdity of the regime that the European Union is imposing on a migrant
population. She wanted to manifest the absurdity of certain relations that are
being forced upon individuals to partake in them. Her work is the reaction to
the relations of inequality, to an unequal distribution of power that is being
historically reproduced through the domination of power relations on both
national and global level. In the film she tried to join the selected footages
from different sources reflecting on the idea of democracy of the European
neo-liberal system. The footages are taken from the National Archive of Radio
and Television of Slovenia from media reports on migrant questions taken from
2001-2008.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Report
on the state of the asylum policy in the </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Republic</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> of </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Slovenia</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> from January 2008 to August 2009</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Documentary film, PAL DVD,
2010<i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Film is trying to expose the
struggle and life of the asylum seekers in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Slovenia</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">. Asylum
seekers are more and more becoming the object of systematic physical and
psychological violence. The Asylum Centre has become an instrument for averting
asylum seekers’ and dismantling the right to asylum, rather than being an
instrument of their protection. An ever more present repression over asylum
seekers coincides with the trend of asylum law. The Film exposes the structure
of the asylum legal regulation, its transformation, the disappearance of the
right to asylum, the criminalization of asylum seekers, systematic physical and
psychological violence over asylum seekers, emergent of the European apartheid
system, the system of production of “sans papieres” while pointing out the
self-organization of asylum seekers themselves and the meaning of social
centres and open autonomous spaces that self-organized asylum seekers and their
supporters are using in their everyday organizing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><b>Vuk Ćosić</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Greater </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Slovenia</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, 2004</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Series of
pretty computer graphics in medium format</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The project is
researching the visual image of the Slovenian territory in maps of </span><span lang="EN-US">Europe</span><span lang="EN-US"> and the World. First
findings are confirming that </span><span lang="EN-US">Slovenia</span><span lang="EN-US">
is very decorative. Also, it is recommendable for countries to remain above
pixel size, and if that is unavoidable then stay square in order to be
correctly represented.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Nemanja<span> </span>Cvijanović</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mount
Triglav on The </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Adriatic
Sea</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Happening (performed as a sign of gratitude of
Croatian people to the people of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Slovenia</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> at the
rational decision on the referendum on border arbitration)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Series of 3 black and white photographs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Production: DOPUST</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mount Triglav on The Adriatic Sea </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">is a
peculiar continuation of three happenings performed by Slovene artists,
historic and contemporary, using the idea of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">mount</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Triglav</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> as an
allegorical symbol of geography, nationality, and state, which possesses a
historically constructed identity. The live sculpture Triglav was first
performed in the Zvezda park in Ljubljana on December 30<sup>th</sup> 1968 by
David Nez, Milenko Matanović and Drago Dellabernardina, members of OHO, the
most important neoavantgarde movement in Slovenia. The group IRWIN
reconstructed this action in 2004, while in 2009 the artists Janez Janša, Janez
Janša and Janez Janša performed a happening they entitled <i>Triglav on Triglav</i>
as a reconstruction of the works of OHO and IRWIN with the intent of continuing
conceptual art in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Slovenia</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> and
exposing the ideological links of contemporary and past history. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Allegorically, in Slovenia Mount Triglav is a symbol,
its identity is artificially constructed and linked to the people and the
country, while in Croatia the same holds for the Adriatic Sea. <i>Mount Triglav
on The Adriatic Sea</i> attempts to deconstruct these identities and challenges
the exclusive right of newly constructed neighbouring nations to make use of
these symbols. <i>Triglav on The Adriatic Sea </i>was performed on June 2
during a 2010 DOPUST festival at the legendary Bačvice beach in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Split</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, to show
gratitude for the decision by </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Slovenia</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> on the
border arbitration referendum.<b><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Katarina
Zdjelar </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">We need to
have civil consciousness and basta</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">video</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In her video
piece <i>We need to have civil consciousness
and basta</i>, Katarina Zdjelar<b> </b>focuses
on a group of concerned citizens in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Naples</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> who rally
around the common idea of making a difference in politics. We follow a crucial
meeting, at which they are deciding whether they should become a political
party or not. Rather than evolving around the participants’ standpoint,
concrete proposals, agreements and disagreements, the piece looks at the moment
of transition, in which a citizen-enthusiast becomes a politician.</span></p>
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