Date: 30/12/2010 until 10/01/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Črtanec’s attitude towards wood is enigmatic. Wood as material is losing its material nature, the shaped softness denying the proverbial hardness of wood, thus also the argument of Medieval engravers claiming to be using their forming approach to emphasise the hardness and create a striped structure, as if it was impossible to curve it, round it off or soften it. Like a conceptual perpetuum mobile, his yin-yang is reflected in relations between material and form, which are never unambiguous. As soon as you want to label, specify or freeze something, it swings elsewhere, thereby warning about the cursory and slow articulation of perception. In its countless versions and poetics, alongside the processes of planing and chiselling, the virtuoso on the medium – wood dreams of different, parallel worlds full of subversive, playful ideas.
More InformationDate: 29/12/2010
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Femina, the long-awaited music series happened on Wednesday 29 December at 6 pm. Our guests of the afternoon and the evening presented their sound situations, lyrics, performances and concerts.
The project »Ženske_vol.10« (Women_nr 10) focuses on domestic and partly also on foreign currents of female creativity based on sound and music. By means of diverse performances and a CD release we will explore the position of the 21st century woman creating with sound and music. Or maybe we won’t.
The designed sound CD »Ženske_vol.10« continues the son:DA edition within KIBLA’s TOX imprint, its other releases being »ulica_2012« and »avantgard_08_09«. »ulica_2012« was questioning the concepts and contexts of street culture and music through spoken word of diverse Slovenian dialects looking towards the European Capital of Culture 2012. »avantgarda_08_09« was focusing on the experimental, electro acoustic sea of sound and its being shaped, modulated, processed and projected into space.
Kibla photo archive (Photo: Boštjan Lah)
Date: 28/12/2010 until 15/01/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Night exhibition for visitors to MMC KIBLA
and for passers-by on pavements, in busses and cars
“Lips are one of the most expressive attributes of human irrational sensuality. Their endless wealth of pragmatism in various shapes, colours and rhythms shows as the expressive topos and universal drive in this conceptually paradoxical contrapposto.
Let a thousand lips speak. Lipss light district. Let the flowers and the weeds speak together – for there is no demarcation line between them. Each belief system can grow freely and influence anyone, yet any of them can demand epistemological superiority. Open Code.”
(Vlado Repnik)
Date: 22/12/2010 until 29/12/2010
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
I see what you don’t see, which is…
…white. Nooo, rainbow-coloured! White. No way! It is multicoloured. Both, actually. Both? Why, surely, we live in a technological era! Excuse me? How? What does it have to do with our era? Much, much…
Are you aware that in the technological era – which, indeed, we have been inhabiting for some time now – the kindergarten rule that by mixing the primary colours, i.e. red, yellow and blue all shades of colour can be created, all the three of them combining into brown, is no longer the only one? Ever since we have been surrounded by devices such as the colour TV, mobile phone, digital camera and a range of PC and TV digital screens, not only the three primary colours have changed: yellow being replaced by green, which in the digital language combines with red to make – believe it or not – yellow. Although in digital worlds, various combinations of primary colours (red, green and blue) still “make” an abundance of shades of the colour spectrum, an inert-pragmatic user of modern technology will find it particularly surprising that by mixing the three so-called RGB colours we get – again, believe it or not – white! Which means the light!
More InformationDate: 10/12/2010 until 25/01/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
“When I started exploring the profession, I had no idea what to do. /…/ How to present myself? When asked, how to make life more interesting, an old professor answered: Fall in love with a beautiful woman or with a major problem! I fell in love with Pretty Woman. I spent 35 years DANCING TANGO with her. Love, passion, boredom, memories, nostalgia, jealousy… BALKAN TANGO.”
Dragan Sakan
More InformationDate: 03/12/2010 until 15/12/2010
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
The sculptor Boštjan Drinovec who has been teaching sculpture at the Academy of fine arts and design, Ljubljana since 2008 credits himself in his CV, just alongside his academic career, with being “a creator of Metelkova Mesto”. At first, this might seem an obsolete fact, seemingly telling us only that the sculptor’s atelier is to be found in Metelkova Autonomous Cultural Centre. Yet there is more contained in it.
Boštjan Drinovec has had a significant impact on the image of Metelkova Mesto, and Metelkova has certainly marked him in return. Boštjan Drinovec is the sculptor who in 1999 placed a copy of the Greek sculpture David on the Alkatraz Gallery façade. The urban landscape became the central image of Metelkova as recognised by its users. Furthermore, Boštjan Drinovec is the sculptor whose kind of production as well as visual and thematic aspects express a “Metelkova attitude”. The image of Metelkovec (i.e. someone to do with Metelkova) is the type of image we all understand, yet no one knows how to explain it thoroughly. It can be attributed to “social subjects appearing at the intersection of dominant cultures, cultural industry, mass culture, struggle for space, struggle for cultural hegemony and the right to free creation,” but difficult to define in more detail. The “Metelkova attitude” is far from being a perfect reflection of the current Metelkova moment. Rather, it is constructed of elements of reality, later to be internalised and again introduced to the reality in the manner that is used by “the alternative scene to stage Metelkova.”
For more info (only in Czech), please visit the official festival website on: http://www.platforma-reset.cz/
December 2 – 4, 2010, Prague
Symposium MEDIA – PERFORMANCE – MEMORY
Thursday 4pm, December 2, 2010, Theatre Komedie (Jungmannova 1, Prague 1)
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