Video večer / Video Evening #01
Press Play_Taking on Performance
A screening evening

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 7 pm
Photon Gallery, Križevniška ul. 10, Ljubljana

We are informing you about the exhibition project of art group KOLEKTIVA, co-organized by Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster.

Kolektiva Institute is beginning with new series of monthly screenings Video Evening in Photon Gallery. Video Evening is an event in which we screen video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, associations and festivals.

Press Play_Taking on Performance

A collection of videos chosen by ADA is the second part of KOLEKTIVA, Calling? a video correspondence between ADA Rotterdam (NL) and KOLEKTIVA (SI).As the first part of this correspondence, ADA hosted a film evening presenting KOLEKTIVA’s selection of art videos entitled Fields of the Performative, which reflected on the subject of ‘performing for the camera’.

KOLEKTIVA’s selection included videos featuring various formal and conceptual premises present in heterogeneous interpretation of performance in relation to motion picture within contemporary visual art. It is in response to this selection of videos, the Fields of the Performative, that ADA has in turn prepared their video response back to KOLEKTIVA. The resulting collection of videos is entitled Press Play_Taking on Performance.

Selected by: ADA Rotterdam

Participating: Inger Alfnes (NO), Alexandra Gerbaulet (DE), Jacqueline Forzelius (SE), Louise Menzies (NZ), Martine Stig (NL), Segundo de Chomón (ES), Ruth Buchanan (NZ), Ruth Legg (UK), Rajkumar Santoshi (IN)

Total screening time: 00:64:38

More information (descriptions & images of videos & artists’ CVs):
http://www.kolektiva.org/producing/video-vecer-video-evening/press-play_taking-on-performance/descriptions-images-of-videos

ADA Rotterdam

ADA is an area for debate and art. It is a self-organized, independent artists initiative formed in September 2008 to support, nurture, stimulate and to create space for critical reflection and debate in and about art, in an open, cross-disciplinary minded and a friendly environment.
At the core of ADA are the art practices of six Rotterdam based artists (Deirdre M. Donoghue, Esmé Valk, Gerwin Luijendijk, Maja Bekan, Margo Onnes, Sjoerd Westbroek) who also run ADA’s public program. ADA is as much a mental state as it is a physical location. It can be thought of as a multifaceted, porous sphere, consisting of people, thoughts, ideas, knowledge and experience/s, which flow in and out from the Area. A common philosophy of the members of ADA is the simple belief in the value of specifically framed human encounters as artistically meaningful and valuable sites, where new knowledge can be activated and allowed into being.

Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon, ADA Rotterdam
Project supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana
Sponsor: Center Projekcije
Thanks: SCCA-Ljubljana

More info:
Photon Gallery/ Photon Association
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 1 2302071
m: +386 41 258215
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 11am-2pm / 3pm-6pm

www.kolektiva.org/archives/72

[Published December 23, 2010]