DIVA Station at Arsenal
Presentation of archive for video art

November 3 and 4, 2010
Arsenal Municipal Gallery
Stary rynek 6, Poznan, Poland

You are kindly invited to attend a presentation of archive for video art DIVA Station on Wednesday, 3rd November at 7pm at Arsenal Municipal Gallery Poznan followed by a screening of video materials. The screening will be repeated on Thursday, 4th November at 7pm.

Different aspects of creating video and media archive DIVA Station will be presented by SCCA's director Barbara Borčić who will speak about the context and historical necessity to form archives of temporary arts. Technical details of preserving video materials and the structure of video signal will be presented in an animated lecture by critic Ida Hiršenfelder based on lectures by artist Neven Korda. Screening program as a case study of specific historical landmarks in the development of video art in Slovenia will be presented by curator and critic Miha Colner.

VIDEO PROGRAM

• Andrej Lupinc Lupo:In Eight Days Around the World, 1990-2000 , 9’30’’
  
  
• Polonca Lovšin: Always Better, 2002, 1’27’’
  
  
• Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda (ZANK): Avtobus, 1993, 11’20’’
  
  
• Tomaž Furlan: Wear III, 2005-2008, 2’17’’; Wear VII, 2005-2008, 3’30’’
  
  
• Maja Smrekar: The Machinism, 2009, 1’15’’
  
  
• Marko Kovačič:Song of Flesh and Image Was Made Body, 1985, 16’25’’
  
  
• Zoran Srdić: Počečkane besede, 2005, 5’05’’
  
  
• Sašo Podgoršek: Vertigo Bird, 1996, 33’57’’
  
  

DIVA Stationis a physical and web archive of video is based on a documentary, archival and research project on video art in Slovenia, which has been developing at SCCA since 2005. The archive is the latest stage in research projects of video and media art like Videodokument, Videospotting, Internet Portfolio or Artservis Collection. DIVA Stationis a partner of GAMA – Gateway to Archives of Media Art, an international internet platform, which brings together several European video and media archives to make them more visible and easily accessible.

Presented artists: Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda (ZANK), Tomaž Furlan, Marko A. Kovačič, Polonca Lovšin, Andrej Lupinc, Sašo Podgoršek, Maja Smrekar, Zoran Srdić
Presentation: Barbara Borčić and Miha Colner
Lecture Animation: Ida Hiršenfelder
Organisation: Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland

[Published October 28, 2010]