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)

MORE: www.scca-ljubljana.si/news-en_14-19.htm

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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28th and 29th October, 2013

Intimising Dance is a video programme selected by Ida Hiršenfelder in the framework of Videospotting series of video art programmes. It has been screened as a part of TransDance 13 Festival (from 21st till 30th October, 2013) organised by HaRaKa Center in their newly opened exhibition space ODA in the centre of Cairo.

This year’s festival topic is Oblivion and Resistance focused on the questions of performance and actions based on the use of the body, the creation of the rules of observation, presentation and mediation, archives and monopoly, the deletion of memory and lose.

MORE: http://www.scca-ljubljana.si/news-en_13-34.htm

Premiere March 20, 2013
MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre

For MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre SCCA-Ljubljana prepared a new video program curated by Andrej Pezelj.

With this programme we would like to show as heteroclite video selection as possible in order to show that many videos from the 80s had dealt with the topics that are much similar to what we are dealing now. People were fighting against ecological challenges, facing housing dilemmas; they also found some time to think about fashion or about the production of beautiful video works.

MORE ABOUT THE VIDEO PROGRAM: www.videospotting.org/eng/constants-and-continuities-2013