4. 7. 2024 | VideoGarden.15


VideoGarden.15
Screening and talk

Thursday, 4 July 2024, 9 pm
Inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana

Participating: Ana Brumat, Ester Ivakič, Blaž Kutin, Blaž Murn, David Paige, Maja Prelog, Juš Premrov 

Curator: Robert Kuret

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The films deal with landscapes, both internal and external, in one way or another. If human characters or figures are present, they are part of the landscape rather than occupying the foreground; in this way, we establish a relationship to space, its dimensions, and the entities within it, which manifest themselves in different ways. Above all, humans manifest themselves through the traces of social arrangements that determine the ways and possibilities of moving through spaces.

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Landscapes, Spaces
Duration: 60’

Ana Brumat, Pursuit of Anomalous Mind Habitats
Netherlands, experimental, 2019, 4’

The transmutation of mind and matter was a subject of research in the field of alchemy, which continues nowadays in the sciences exploring the nature of consciousness, the creation of A-life, and synthetic and systems biology. The Pursuit of Anomalous Mind Habitats is an attempt of the mind to expand, mutate and change its abode.

Blaž Kutin, Warm for this Time of Year
Slovenia, experimental, fiction, 2011, 10’

Tibor is sitting alone outside a bar. After a while he runs out of cigarettes, but the nearby tobacco stand is closed. He heads on and does not stop walking.

Ester Ivakič, Reversed Air
Slovenia, experimental, 2020, 8’ 

Once there was a girl, living in a pink house. One day her pink house exploded, so she went on a journey for a new one.

Maja Prelog, Blaž Murn (RÁTNEEK), 2 0 4 5
Slovenia, experimental, 2016, 9′

 “7 May 2045. I’ve decided to go back home.”

Juš Premrov, x1-ESCHATON
Slovenia, experimental, 2022, 7′

 Life shifts to dust, to stone, to sky – to love, in the end. The circle never breaks.

David Paige, Harnessing
France, experimental, 2023, 22’ 

Over a period that followed the enforced shutdown of Paris, David Paige initiated a resonance through observation. Harnessing, the resultant project of filmic work, is an invitation into a record of time amidst global interruption.

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VideoGarden (VideoDvorišče) is a programme of curated screenings and talks on art, video, and film. In the spring-summer period we step out of the dark cinema and the cold gallery space into the open air. In collaboration with Škuc Gallery we organize screening events in its inner courtyard.

 

DIVA Station is an online and physical archive that SCCA-Ljubljana has been developing since 2005 with the aim of researching, documenting, archiving and presenting art film, video and new media art.

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In case of rain, the screening will be held in the gallery.

The talk with the present artists will be held in Slovene.

Free admission.

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Organization: SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Station, Škuc Gallery

Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
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Cover image: Brina Vidic