Video večer / Video Evening #08
Nina Höchtl
A screening evening

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 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.

Nina Höchtl: PENACHO VS PENACHO, 2011, still

In the eight Video Evening KOLEKTIVA presents the Austrian artist Nina Höchtl. At the event we will talk with Nina about her projects. By recording her live play Drive, Drive, Drive or BYE, BYE and her live intervention PENACHO VS PENACHO in the medium of video she created one possible trace and "scene of translation", an exploration and "production of difference" (Sarat Maharaj). She considers these videos as a complex entanglement of live situation, representation, reproduction and documentation that cannot be grasped as identical it rather plays out as a continually unfolding of differences.
Her two videos DRIVE, DRIVE, DRIVE or BYE, BYE, 2007, 19' 31" and PENACHO VS PENACHO, 2011, 16' 58" will be screened.

About the artist

Nina Höchtl (born in 1978 in Stockerau, AT) spends the most of her time in Mexico City. She studied at the University of Applied Arts (Vienna, A) and the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, NL). Presently, she is a doctoral candidate in Art by Practice at Goldsmiths College (London, UK). In her artistic work, Höchtl is not fixed on a particular medium. She explores the fictional modes of art, literature, politics, history, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the practice of fiction-making as a political process. In doing so she employs the medium of video and photography, works with found materials, language and sound, produces printed matters and installations.
Exhibitions in 2011: Spaceship Yugoslavia (Curators: Anita Šurkić, Arman Kulašić, Arnela Mujkanović, Dejan Marković, Jovana Komnenić, Katja Sudec, Naomi Hennig), NGBK, Berlin (D); about translation (Curators: Karin Pernegger and Dagmar Höss), Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (A); Pièces de résistance (Curators: Andrea Domesle, Michal Kolecek, Frank Eckhardt) Motorenhalle Dresden (D); Schon wieder und nochmal ? – Handlungsspielräume (Curator: Sabine Winkler, Medienturm Graz (A); ein arbeit, die das was sie reflektiert, nicht loswird (Curators: Petja Dimitrova, Lina Dokuzović, Eduard Freudmann, Can Gülcü, Ana Hoffner and Ivan Jurica) Kunstpavillon Innsbruck und Kunsthalle Exnergasse (A), NACH DEMOKRATIE (Curator: Raimar Stange) Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna (A).

More info:

• www.kolektiva.org/archives/116
• Presentation of videos

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-6pm

Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon

Video večer / Video Evening is a monthly event orginzed by Kolektiva Institute in Photon Gallery in which video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, asociations or festivals are screened.

[Published October 21, 2011]