NON-CENTRAL DOMAINS: VIDEO ART IN SLOVENIA IN THE 1980

Zemira Alajbegović and Neven Korda, Podoba, Kanal A - TV Station, 1992/93

February 19 - March 13, 2009
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana

Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda, Image, Kanal A, 1992/93
Dunja Blažević, TV Gallery, RTS/TV Beograd, 1984/90
Bogdan Lešnik & Marijan Osole Max, Project ATV, ŠKUC-Forum, Brut film, 1987
Majda Širca, Blowup, TV Slovenija/RTV Ljubljana, 1990
Miha Vipotnik, Autovision, Brut film, 1985

The exhibition is part of the action "Hosting Moderna galerija!". Curators: Igor Španjol, Alenka Gregorič

The exhibition will reflect on television programmes whose messages contain, besides ordinary, narrative and informative elements (the so-called reproductive elements of reality), also "creative" elements. We will try to focus on those projects which involve television as an autonomous means of expression seeking the specifics of its own language within its inherent technical properties. In this context we should point to the difference between the televised reproduction of the existing creative contents of the art forms (film, painting, theatre), and the ability of television to stimulate autonomous expressive potentials.

The present exhibition is the last in a trilogy of projects included in the "Hosting Moderna galerija!" initiative. Presenting the main trends in Slovenian video art and related media and entitled Non-central Domains, the trilogy is a step toward a more synthetic and integral view of the development of media art over the last four decades, starting with the experimental and documentary video in the 1970s, the "alternative" video in the 1980s, the artistic production of the 1990s, and the most recent explorations involving the context of the social space. In this sense it represents an attempt to organize a non-linear retrospective view and to identify certain basic topics, issues and interrelations. The project is structured like a mosaic, being staged at a number of art venues and involving many protagonists. The works that the individual exhibitions focus on encompass hybrid spheres, "non-central" in terms of the media, genre, and technology, and intertwining visual, sound, space, and other elements.

Accompanying programme:
A guided tour with the curator Igor Španjol will take place on Tuesday, March 3 and Friday March 13 at 18.00 at Galerija Škuc.
Dunja Blažević: Presentation of TV Galerija, Tuesday, 10 March at 19.00 at Galerija Škuc.

All the texts are quotations from Igor Španjol, "Artistic Evening", in Videodokument. Video in Slovenia 1969-1998. Esays (OSI-Slovenia/SCCA-Ljubljana, 1999)

Special thanks
TV Slovenia - Culture and arts program, SCCA - Sarajevo and SCCA - Ljubljana.

Project is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Cultural Department of the City of Ljubljana.

For further information contact Alenka Gregorič on
galerija.skuc@guest.arnes.si or + 386 1 251 65 40

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