DIVA Station and Grey) (area
Race with Time 2. Performance
and Video in a Rear-view Mirror

Exhibition
June 15– July 7, 2015
Opening: Monday, June 15, at 9pm-11 pm

Lecture and screening
Barbara Borčić: DIVA Station – archiving of images and time
June 28, 2015

Gallery: Put Sv. Nikole bb, Korčula, Croatia
grey) (area space for contemporary and media art

RACE WITH TIME 2

Action, happening and performance had been a direct reaction to the prevailing formalist and market-driven art in the 1950s and 1960s. As the new means of expression at the intersection of visual art and theatre, they have somehow been pertinent to both fields; nonetheless, they have regularly been overlooked from the canonised history books and surveys.

In the context of Conceptual Art and New Artistic Practices, video art has met a similar reception. Apart from being a strongly individualistic activity, performance and video share various other features, such as inappropriate production conditions and lack of critical writing. It is also questionable whether they have found a pertinent field of representation, in the sense that the gallery is the field of representation of visual art, theatre of performing art, and the movie theatre that of film; while, television and the Internet seem to be the testing ground for all manners of production. It is also possible that performance and video mostly belong to the fields of other art forms, often overlapping and integrating other so-called new media.

The relationship between performance and video has always been multilayered and followed a preceding relation between film and action.

EXHIBITION
Curator: Barbara Borčić

The relationship between performance art and video art could be schematically demonstrated by four modes: 1) video as a document of performance, 2) video as a part of performance / performance as a part of video, 3) (video) performance, staged only for the camera, and 4) performance made possible only through video, its expressive and technological possibilities for processing and editing.

EXHIBITED WORKS

Miha Vipotnik: Videogram 4, 1976–79
art video

Marko A. Kovačič: Casus belli, 1983
video performance

Martina Bastarda, Mateja Ocepek, Nataša Skušek: Pissing, 2002
action for camera (outdoors)

Tomaž Furlan: Wear IV–V–VI, 2005
performances for camera (studio)

Ana Čigon: One More Kick, 2009
performance for camera (cadre)

Mateja Bučar: The Unnoticed, 2013–2014
urban choreography

EXHIBITION VIEW

Race with Time 2. Performance and Video in a Rear-view Mirror, exhibition view at Grey) (area

Race with Time 2. Performance and Video in a Rear-view Mirror, exhibition view at Grey) (area

Race with Time 2. Performance and Video in a Rear-view Mirror, exhibition view at Grey) (area

Race with Time 2. Performance and Video in a Rear-view Mirror, exhibition view at Grey) (area

Darko Fritz in front of the Grey) (area

Lecture by Barbara Borčić

Lecture by Barbara Borčić

Lecture by Barbara Borčić

Race with Time 2. Performance and Video in a Rear-view Mirror, exhibition info at Grey) (area

Posters announcing the exhibition and the lecture

PRESENTATION AND VIDEO SCREENING

DIVA Station – archiving of images and time

Barbara Borčić (a curator, publicist and editor in the field of contemporary art, director and head of video programs at SCCA-Ljubljana) will present the procedures of production, historisation and functioning of DIVA Station, the archive of video and media art in Slovenia.

DIVA at Škuc Gallery, a video essay by Nika Grabar presenting the topic of archiving as "the preservation of memory" will be screened.

GREY) (AREA SPACE FOR CONTEMPORARY AND MEDIA ART

Grey) (area strives to positively redefine the position of the cultural periphery of the island on which it operates, while understanding culture in the extended sense of the word, which includes daily practices, cultural and artistic production observed in a broader social and political context.

Activities include support and promotion of contemporary audio and visual languages of urban culture as well those from peripheral cultural positions, especially in the Mediterranean region, supporting and assisting the art that confirms the forms of expressions which use the languages ​​of contemporary art, media culture and new technologies (Article 11 of the Statute Association).

The mission at the local level is to connect local population through cultural facilities and improvement of visual and media culture of the island of Korčula, as well as the coordination of the island's network of cultural institutions kor :: net.

The mission at the regional and international levels is creating and fostering cultural policies of the island towards contemporary forms of creative expression.

Among the long-term priorities of the development of international cooperation in the Mediterranean region, actions in defined fields of non-institutional culture, art production, independent science and social development according to the values of civil society.

The association seeks to actively involve local and international contemporary creative actors in existing frameworks of cultural tourism, which relies mainly on traditional content and cultural heritage. At the same time we are creating a critical discourse aiming at social transformation towards civil, more conscious and more just society of equal subjects.

PRESS CLIPPING

Dubrovački vjesnik, 18. 06. 2015: Korčulanska Utrk s vremenom / Race with time in the city of Korčula (in Croatian)
http://dubrovacki.hr/clanak/75549/korculanska-utrka-s-vremenom

Dubrovački vjesnik, 29. 06. 2015: Korčulansko arhiviranje slika i vremena / Archiving of images and time in the city of Korčula (in Croatian)
http://dubrovacki.hr/clanak/75954/korculansko-arhiviranje-slika-i-vremena

CREDITS

Production: SCCA-Ljubljana / DIVA Station, 2015
Co-production: Grey) (area space for contemporary and media art

Curator: Barbara Borčić
Video preparation: Miha Kelemina
Web support: Vesna Bukovec
Support: Ljubljana Municipality, Department for Culture

Thanks: Darko Fritz, Sonja Leboš (Gray ) (area)

[Published June 10, 2015]