Researches

The reflexions and anaylses are focused on the themes that would contribute considerably to the understanding of contemporary art practice and its context.

• Archiving Practices (since 2005)
• What Is to Be Done with "Balkan Art"? (2002-2005)
• Manifesta in Our Backyard (1999-2002)

Video Turn (October 2011-October 2013)
Experimental Research & Exhibition Project
Focus: the experimental and structural practice
of video nad new media art

Video Turn analyses main formal and conceptual characteristics of video language through various working methods (analysis, curating, critical writing, interviews, collecting audiovisual works and documents, workshops, lectures, panel discussions). We are developing the project together with the organisations from the Region and the artists, that we have chosen on the basis of their longstanding work and activities in the field of experimental new media practices.

More: Video Turn, research

What is the meaning of AV archives? (2011)
Lectures, screening, installation and performance
Web site DIVA Station (www.e-arhiv.org/diva)
Focus: meaning and options of artistic and/or discursive archives

How to connect contents of AV archives? (2010)
Exhibition, Lectures, Screenings, Workshop
Focus: archive as the structural and technical fabric of the art work or project

What is going on concerning audiovisual archives? (2007)
International seminar: workshop, lectures, presentations, exhibition, panel
Focus: institucional examplary practices of AV archives

WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES? (2005)
The international reasearch project: workshop, lectures, panel, exhibition on the theme of the status
of digital audiovisual archives and their accessibility.

What Is to Be Done with "Balkan Art"? (since 2003)
The research of the intense interest of the international art system during last years in the (re)invention and (re)definition of the Balkans and "Balkan art".

Manifesta in Our Backyard (1999-2002)
In the Manifesta in Our Backyard research project, Manifesta 3 (a European biennial of contemporary art) that was hosted in Ljubljana in 2000, has served as an example of a large, representative contemporary art event and thus as an example of the manifestation of the cultural industry.