Michele Drascek The Fourth wall Performance / video 2008-2009 Theatre Kud Preseren Ljubljana, Slovenia camera Maja Slavec assistant Ursa Vidic sound Sebastien Fraboulet
The artist performs at the centre of the stage, hanging on the roof. In front of him “The fourth wall” (in the theatrical language it is the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience). He tries to dismantle this wall with his still look and presence. He replaces himself in the temple of representation. Liturgical value of the action, mysterious dimension of the space and slowness of the performance are stressed by the sound of a church that carries a certain feeling of the ineffable.
The artist has received the student Prešeren award for his diploma work titled Mala zvezda [Little Star]. The simple story narrated in the animation provides interesting answers relating to our current human attitude towards nature. Representing the main idea, the narrative Little Star exposes two messages appearing in the story as two central developments, mutually intertwining, supplementing each other and unfolding the contents in cooperation. The first message is about ethics, about what an attitude the individual and the society should have towards nature. The second message explains the role of the main actor representing a boy, a child who has only just begun to shape his world. And he starts to be aware of his existence.
Based on the principles of minimal music, AUDIOREACTIVE visualizes microtonal events such as frequency, duration, tone pitch and sound volume in 3-dimensional environments.
At first developed and designed independently, the 3d-setups reveal their connection to the sound through the animation in many different ways. The audio influences and controls variables such as position, size, color, light, texture or physical principles like gravity or magnetism.
AUDIOREACTIVE encompasses following pieces:
POLY:GON - sound: Tim Hecker
E-LINES - sound: DACM, Tim Hecker
MAGNETO - sound: Tim Hecker
SW - sound: Radiohead
CHENILLE - sound: Fennesz
"KIAKOSHI–come alive" is a corporate film for the autumn/winter 09/10 collection of KIAKOSHI – a newcomer fashion label from Berlin with Japanese roots. Themed "come alive" five sleeping fashion ikebanas awake and enfold delicately their own worlds until they end up in an awake position. The film shows an intimate and emotional expression of the designers taste, one that explores the contradictions and dualities in vintage and modern fashion.
Jorinna Scherle is a motion designer and director from Berlin, Germany. Besides commercial design jobs, she tries to spend as much time as possible on creating digital art and design.
Starting in 2002 she has been attending the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden for communications design and media informatics, where she studied everything from graphic design to photography, painting and programming. She graduated 2009 Magna Cum Laude.
Her films have been shown at festivals, galleries, magazines, TV programmes and blogs worldwide.
"The Imaginary of Electromagnetic Transformations" by Maja Smrekar
This time 3rd Channel presents video material that has been created in the third/last series of the original project The imaginarium of electromagnetic transformations, which was executed on 26 November 2009 by Maja Smrekar and Luka Prinčič within the project CIRKULACIJA 2 and Net.Art Community Convention/MediaLab Graz. The dialogue happened in real time as a live-stream performance linking MMC Kiberpipa in Ljubljana and Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. While conceiving and executing her projects, the intermedia artist Maja Smrekar seeks to rearticulate the use of new and old technologies from a socially critical viewpoint, as well as expose interdisciplinarily and interactively the synergy of mutual relations between fields of science, art and technology in relation to the systems of subjective perception of space and repressive systems of power and control. She thus wishes to reinterpret diverse phenomena of past and present media environments in an analytic manner, as well as warn critically of potential images of future realities of media and the society.
Curator: Michele Drascek
KINO ŠIŠKA Center for Urban Culture Ljubljana (Slovenia) From 1st to 30th April 2010 http://www.kinosiska.si/
3rd video screen in upper lobby (during public events in the large Katedrala hall)
3. KANAL: Revaluation by Maja Slavec curated by Michele Drascek
Maja Slavec [Slovenia] Maja Slavec (1979) graduated in art pedagogy from the Faculty of Education, Maribor in 2005. A year later she entered the masters programme in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, mentored by Prof Milan Pajk. As she completed her undergraduate studies, an exhibition in Media Nox gallery hinted at a typical feature of her work, i.e. the objects that are featured in her art photography are never revealed in full. Rather, the artist presents us with a concealed view through the peephole, neither voyeuristic nor objective, but multilayered and well considered. The artist particularly attracted the attention of general public last year, as she was included in the review of Slovenian feminist art Women are coming! which was organised within the City of Women festival. She presented performance video documentation Woman Beauty Power Less, which she enacted in the centre of Ljubljana. The artist doesn't idealise the role of the woman, nor is she looking for the 'natural' original woman's role, rather, she is looking for a woman that is aware entirely of her relationship towards her social role. http://maja-slavec.blogspot.com/
REVALUATION Performance in public space video 42'
The movement of the dancer has the intention to create circles in the space. The circles represent the public system (political, cultural, economical, etc.) that has an impact on our life, with or without our approval. The “tondo” is a micro system of intimate space, a system that exists among others. I see the intimate and the public structures as closed systems in which we could fit in or not. The movement of the dancer creates an intimate story that is trying to fit in a public structure, but the figure is constantly breaking the perfect shape and creating his/her own ones. The figure represents the autonomy of a living being, with the frustrations that he/she develops in the process of growth. The main shape – the circle - can be seen as an ocular or as a general shape of the life path that I understand as a repetition in general. As Artists, I think that we have the same path to follow, but we have greater autonomy than the others. We constantly revaluate the system, we tighten its borders and we account for our actions under the autonomy of Art. The interconnections between the space of the dancer and the people involved by chance in the performance represent the relations tied in our society, inside the system. In the end: Are these relations under our control? Or, since they are tied in the system, is it the system itself that controls our relations? Who is the winner? The individual or the system? Is the path we choose to walk ours? Or is it controlled by the system of our political, economical or cultural structures? Are we really free in our decisions? The second part of the video goes backwards: it is the revaluation of a life that ended. What could we do better? Do we accept the past or we are sorry for the things we did? After all, is the power of being still strong enough to arrive to our life end with a smile? What does it mean to be significant? And to whom? Did our life as artists have an impact on the society?
KINO ŠIŠKA Center for Urban Culture Ljubljana (Slovenia) From 1st March to 31st March 2010 Everyday from 9am till 8pm + night screening http://www.kinosiska.si/
V-ATAK[France] Founded in 2002, V-Atak is a label dedicated to audio and visual art. Made up with a hybrid mix of Vj’s, movie makers and musicians, the label grew year after year and developed an edgy identity on the Audio/Video live scene. When performing video/audio live art and producing music clips as well, the crew is at its best by taking risks. V-Atak services and products (installations, Vjing, DVDs) reflect that constant questioning that the label has on manner and matter, playing with the ever-changing digital technology and its limits. While society, corporations and politics use images and media to exert a control on the masses, V-Atak challenges common sense and ideas through images and sounds. The process that has become them trademark, distorting contemporary media icons to recreate an original sense, offers the public an opportunity to question with irony and violence the mass media representations. http://www.v-atak.com/ The video Death Mariachi, Feeding your back and Fuel tank presented in 3.Kanal are included in the DVD and CD “Tzii -Rotten Friendship”, produced by V-Atak and Night On Earth (audio label). "Tzii - Rotten Friendship" arises from the encounter between Robin Kobrynski (aka RKO) and Eric Desjeux (aka Tzii), respective founders of these two labels.
FEEDING YOUR BACK (daisy) Directed by 1n0ut Music by TZII Duration: 9’20 Year of production: 2008 Location of production: JAPAN / USA Production: 1n0ut / V-ATAK DVD 16/9 PAL Synopsis: A digital resurrection of poor dead creatures, which accompany a dark musical flow. Morphs of dead taxidermy corps tunnel a vision of dead digital eternity.
DEATH MARIACHI Directed by RKO Music by TZII & RKO Duration: 9’45 Year of production: 2008 Location of production: MEXICO / FRANCE Production: V-ATAK DVD 16/9 PAL Synopsis: Images and sounds collected through Mexico as postcards. Swirling around eclectic scenes of this country, a camera guides us in the inmost depths of a dolls sanctuary...The death is only represented by the support of films, discovering little by little the dark faces of this trip to the country of Mariachis.
FUEL TANK Directed by TOFF alias Christophe Rannou Music by TZII Duration: 6’ Year of production: 2008 Location of production: FRANCE Production: V-ATAK DVD 16/9 PAL Synopsis: Dark echo from the chaos resound into the infinit...
PULSAR 23 Directed by Robin Kobrynski Music by Pedro Penas Robles Duration: 10' Year of production: 2005 Location of production: France Production:V-ATAK 16/9 PAL Synopsis:The action is located in a post-apocalyptic world. The war ravaged a part of the humanity. Some survivors persist on this contaminated earth. Teams of human beings locked in bunker send robots to find survivors...
KINO ŠIŠKA Center for Urban Culture Ljubljana (Slovenia) Opening 1st February 2010 Everyday from 9am till 8pm + night screening www.kinosiska.si
