Facing the Artwork
Video Art and Short Film Fest

June 9-12, 2011
Werkleitz–centre for media art, Halle (Saale), Germany

SCCA-Ljubljana web-master, Vesna Bukovec is participating at the video and short film festival in Germany.

Concept: Virág Bottlik
Jury / curators: Virág Bottlik, Eike Berg, Radmila Joksimović

By his particular position in society an artist is always an artist – even while walking down the street or performing other daily activities. Public, viewer or audience on the other hand one can only become while perceiving, receiving art. The public does not exist outside the context of art – but can the context of art exist without recipients? Is the applause in the theater necessary to call the performance complete? Could the orchestra play a concert just for itself? Or to turn the question around: to what extent does the artist let the idea of an audience influence the conception and execution of his work?

A compilation from over 400 entries from all over Europe illustrates the different aspects of art reception. The works, selected by an international jury, are shown in thematic blocks, accompanied by other curated works and talks with the artists.

Vesna Bukovec is participating with the video Lecture (Contemporary Art for Parents), included as well in the Artservis' Collection.

Vesna Bukovec, Lecture (Contemporary Art for Parents), 2002, still

More info:

• www.vesna-bukovec.net/eng/archives/1188
• werkleitz.de/en/facingtheartwork.html
• Program (pdf)

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Novo Mesto, Ribnica, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona... Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony being a frequently used artistic strategy.

[Published May 30, 2011]