DIVA Station at Videospritz Festival in Trieste

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 18.30
Trieste Contemporanea Commettee
Studio Tommaseo
Via del Monte 2/1, Triste

Station DIVA (Digital video archive) will be presented on 15th December 2009 at 6.30 pm at the 4th Videospritz Festival, which is being organised by Trieste Contemporanea at the Studio Tommaseo in Trieste. Trieste Contemporanea established in 1995 is a platform of cultural institutions and associations that aims at enriching a dialog between art of Central, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean. Trieste Contemporanea Committee stimulates cooperation, co-productions and exchange on international level in the field of visual art, music, cinematography, literature, multimedia, theatre, architecture and design. They organise events in Trieste and abroad and are also one of the initiators of well known project Continental Breakfast.

We will present the following a selection:
DIVA Station: Video production in Slovenija from 1983 till 2007
Curated by Barbara Borčič, Miha Colner and Ida Hiršenfelder

• Zemira Alajbegović, Vortex, 2000, 4'04''
• Vesna Bukovec, Important News, 2004, 0'54''
• Neven Korda, Gagarin, 2003/2005, 4'49''
• Marko Kovačič, American Dream, 1986, 6'46''
• Ema Kugler, Taiga, 1996, 8'22''
• Andrej Lupinc - Lupo, In Eight Minutes Around the World, 1999/2000, 9'38''
• Marjan Osole - Max, Avtop, 1983, 4'52''
• Sašo Podgoršek, England, 2006, 3'51''
• Zvonka Simčič, Broken h-h-ha.egg, 2000, 1'
• Mirko Simič, Do You Hear the Sound of Silence, 1992, 3'02''
• Robertina Šebjanič, Bubble I, 2007, 1'
• Nika Špan, How to Socialise the Blues?, 2007, 1'58''
• Miha Vipotnik, Don't Panic, 1984, 6'31''
• Tanja Vujinović, Extagram-ST807, 2007, 1'
• Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda (ZANK), Discipline / So Young (Borghesia), 1983, 3'46''
  

This year's program of Videospritz Festival that will take place from 9th till 23th December 2009 in Trieste will be separated into three sections. One section will be dedicated to history of video art, the second to documentary video works and the third to presentation of recent video production in some regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Besides the presentation of DIVA Station they will also present a selection from Hungary and Poland (9.12.), Germany (14.12.), Italy (16.12.), Croatia (19.12.), Turkey (21.12.), amongst other events the highlight of the festival will be presentation of some rare pioneers of moving image and experimental music of historical avant-gardes on 17th December.

Videospritz Programme(pdf)