Generative algorithmic composition excerpts based on realtime video data for Francisco Tomsich "ELEGIJA | ELEGY" video installation presented from 10th to 21st July 2020 at Cirkulacija 2 Ljubljana Slovenia. Elegija (Elegy) is a mournful song performed by ensemble of video installations, sculptures and sound installation – made specifically for Cirkulacija 2’s premises. The installation setup was totally site-specific – for the new space of Cirkulacija 2 in Ajdovščina subway.
Field recordings in air and water during the Cirkulacija 2 visit in Finland. The place of rest and contemplation was at Future Lake near Helsinki and the performance place was on Merikerho club/ ship in Helsinki harbor. Boštjan Leskovšek was using the underwater recordings as his instrument. Here it is as separate album.
A recording of Cirkulacija 2 (Stefan Doepner, Boštjan Leskovšek, Borut Savski) performance at Merikerho club Helsinki Finland on 20th October 2018. Visit was part of two-way exchange between Ljubljana and Helsinki (Cirkulacija 2 and Koelse = Association of experimental electronics – Kokeellisen Elektroniikan Seura)
V gosteh v C2 je bil John Duncan, eden temeljnih sodobnih radikalnih umetnikov zadnjih štirideset let. Z Duncanom smo v veliki dvorani Cirkulacije 2 v treh dneh pripravili kvadrofonsko situacijo v kateri smo se zvrstili vsi sodelujoči. Domači sodelujoči: Iva Tratnik, Stefan Doepner, Boštjan Leskovšek in Borut Savski.
Double-bill/ triple action. On the occasion of Mike Hentz' Mental Landscapes lecture at Cirkulacija 2 - a concert occurred: Javier Areal Vélez – Argentinian composer and guitar improviser claiming to be open to any kind of participation visited C2. He was joined by the two local strummers: Leskovšek and Savski.
Od 19. februarja do 8. marca 2021 je v Cirkulaciji 2, Podhod Ajdovščina, Ljubljana na ogled razstava “Najemnina + stroški” aktivistično-umetniške skupine Kvadratni meter.
Razstava bo na ogled vsak dan od 13.00-18.00, razen prvi dan: v petek, 19. februarja, ko bo odprta od 16.00 do 19.00. Ob nedeljah in ponedeljkih zaprto.
Skupina umetnic najmlajše generacije je bila v preteklih tednih vključena v podporni program Mehatronične delavnice C2.
The artistic activist installation “Rent + costs” of the Kvadratni meter (-> Square Meter) group deals with housing issues in the local and European space. Under the impression of free existence and the idea of meritocracy, modern human suffers from a sense of guilt over his own inability to survive in a system that is supposed to reward the diligent with wealth. With the project, the group focuses on the concrete causes of the living anxieties of the younger generations and the working class, as well as on the inevitable existential consequences and contradictions. There is already a paradox in the constitutions of some European Union countries regarding the right to a decent residence and the impossibility of defining it, let alone exercising it. Increasingly gentrified cities are pushing their populations and activities to the margins and transforming them into a sterile space adapted to tourism and real estate collectors.
We find ourselves in a wooden structure that represents a room for two random people. Oppressive is not only the psychological inability to occupy space and characterize it, but also the physical construction, which is diminishing from moment to moment. The ground floor window provides a voyeuristic experience for passers-by who are called to empathize with the situation that is facing more and more people.
Kvadratni meter (-> Square Meter) is a group of artists and activists who explore real estate issues through artistic expression. The group uses different artistic practices and expresses itself through different media.
Umetniško delo je nastalo pod pokroviteljstvom projekta “BITE of Art” s finančno podporo Evropske Unije preko projekta Kreativna Evropa. Art work was sponsored by “BITE of Art” project within the EU’s Creative Europe program.
In the beginning of the year – remembering the last weeks of the past year:
The window-shopping installation_exhibition of Elvin Brandhi (-> Wales) in Cirkulacija 2 / Ajdovščina subway_ shopping mall. In the pre-christian bakery tradition we are greeted with the images of today’s post-human reality – the ghosts of the past: the only remnant of (the memories) of Life.
The second piece again relates constructively to the post-human moment. Name: POLICIJSKA URA (->police hour = curfew). Set up on the Photopub gallery roof (->https://www.fotopub.com/). A very practical device shows the time remaining before the onset of curfew.
The third piece is the traditional annual collaboration of Cirkulacija 2 and Radio Študent: Radart#11: RADADAR -> from 17th december 2020. The topic was historical: 100 years anniversary of dada – the opening of frst dada exhibition -> Dada fair (Berlin, 1920). The absurdity of then is mirrored with the absurdity of today.
Also: the peoples of Cirkulacija 2 hereby express our unshakeable belief of the necessity of keeping Radio Student alive and independent – not only as an incubator for future professionals, but as one of the last remaining safehouses of media and cultural colorfulness in pop-political back-to-provincialism black&white simplifications!
Elvin Brandhi: MALE PLASTIKE | SMALL PLASTICS
Izložba Cirkulacija 2, Podhod Ajdovščina 2
Ljudje preganjajo duhove,
živi prežijo na mrtve…
Ghost plastic reused by internal laugher
of the subject walking silent:
humans haunting ghosts,
the living stalk the dead
/skaters stuck in the short cut/
Elvin Brandhi (Elvin kot škratinja, Brandhi kot Gandhi, Br kot Brexit) je bila del programa Cirkulacije 2, ki ga sofinancira Mestna občina Ljubljana.
Ob pomanjkanju vladnega zaupanja v zrelost in presojo slovenskega naroda je oblast 20. oktobra 2020 uvedla policijsko uro, da bi z represivnimi metodami omejila širjenje COVID 19, kljub uspešnemu spopadu z pandemijo v prvem valu brez policijske ure. Spomin na policijsko uro je pri nekaterih, ki so danes najbolj ogrožena skupina, še živ iz časov fašistične italijanske okupacije med 2. svetovno vojno. Do sedaj smo prebivalci Slovenije že 84 dni, devet ur na dan od 21h zvečer do 6h zjutraj v hišnem priporu. Glede na število prebivalstva v Sloveniji to skupno znese 1.584.470.916 ur izgubljene osebne svobode, za namen reševanja nas, pred nami samimi.
Vsi se zavedamo, da virus nima časovne omejitve, to pa ne pomeni, da se virus ne širi na delovnem mestu, v tovarnah, gradbiščih, šolah, vrtcih, bolnišnicah, domovih za ostarele, trgovinah, zbiranju v javnih in privatnih prostorih. Vemo pa, da v megli vsesplošnih »zdravstvenih« ukrepov avtoritarna oblast agresivno napada, kaznuje in ustrahuje narod. Vzporedno s tem spreminja zakone, ki bodo ostali tudi po sedanji situaciji in katerih posledice bodo na plečih Slovencev še dolgo.
Čemu torej resnično služi policijska ura?
Umetnik »name:« je kot reakcijo na nastale ukrepe 31.12.2020 postavil intervencijo v javni prostoru z naslovom POLICIJSKA URA.
Digitalna ura formata 1,5×5,8m je umeščena na Fotopubovem projektnem prostoru(Tivolska cesta 44, arh. Milan Mihelič). Ura državljanom odšteva 15 ur svobode gibanja od 6.ure do 21.ure. Ob 21:00 se ura ustavi in kaže 00:00:00 v času prepovedi gibanja. Ura bo v opomin na represijo odštevala, dokler vlada policijske ure ne ukine.
Slovenskega umetnika »name:« poznamo po akcijah in intervencijah v javni prostor npr.: SOS SMS, kjer so s pomočjo dimnih signalov iz dimnika Stare elektrarne v Ljubljani, mimoidoči preko SMSov lahko v zrak spuščali sporočila, NANOgrafiti 200 mikronov najmanjših grafitov na svetu na najbolj turističnih mestih evropskih prestolnic, intervenciji PING PONG preko mejne ograje na meji s Slovenijo in Hrvaško, napis NEW WORLD ORDER na piranski punti v prvem valu pandemije, kjer je sodeloval z umetnikom Bradom Downeyem in po prvem podvodnem grafitu na svetu TIME WILL TELL v Izoli, kar kaže na raznolikost kreativnih pristopov »name:«
On 20 October 2020, the Slovenian government has expressed its distrust of the maturity and good judgement of the Slovenian people by instituting a nationwide curfew. This repressive measure was allegedly adopted to limit the spread of COVID-19, despite the country having successfully tackled the first wave of the pandemic without it. Among some of the most high-risk citizens, the memory of the last curfew is as alive as ever; it was instituted by fascist Italy during its World War II occupation of Slovenia. The citizens of Slovenia have been under a nine-hour house arrest between the hours of 9 pm and 6 am for 84 days now. Relative to the country’s population that amounts to 1,548,470,916 hours of freedom lost in a bid to protect us from ourselves.
We are all well aware it is impossible to put a time limit on this virus. However, this does not mean that it does not spread in the workplace, factories, on construction sites, at schools, in preschools, hospitals, nursing homes, stores, at gatherings in private and public spaces. What we do know is that this haze of »health« measures is nothing but a pretence for an authoritarian government to aggressively attack, punish and terrorise the nation. These measures are accompanied by legislative changes that will remain after the current situation has passed and the consequences of which will fall on the Slovenian people.
What, then, is the true purpose of the curfew?
As a response to current government measures, on 31/12/2020 the artist known as »name:« created an intervention into public space titled CURFEW.
A 1.5×5.8m digital clock is affixed to the front of a former gas station (44 Tivolska Street, architect Milan Mihelič). The timer counts down the 15 hours between 6 am and 9 pm during which citizens are allowed to move freely. At 9 pm the clock stops, displaying 00:00:00 for the duration of the curfew. As a reminder of the current government’s repressive actions, the timer will count down until the curfew is lifted.
Slovenian artist »name:« is known for their actions and interventions into public space, such as SOS SMS, during which smoke signals emitted from the chimney of Ljubljana’s Old Power Plant were used to transmit the messages texted by passers-by; NANOgrafiti, 200 microns of the smallest graffiti in the world installed at some of the most important tourist sites of European capitals; the PING PONG intervention on the Slovenian-Croatian border fence; the NEW WORLD ORDER mural, created during the first wave of the pandemic in collaboration with Brad Downey on the Piran Punta; and TIME WILL TELL, the world’s first underwater graffiti in Izola. All these artworks are a testament to »name:«’s manifold creative approaches.
Policijska ura je nastala v Mehatronični delavnici Cirkulacije 2, ki jo je v letu 2020 sofinanciral Javni sklad RS za kulturne dejavnosti (JSKD). Ta delavnica sestavi orodja, tehnologije in ekspertna znanja, ki se nahajajo v Cirkulaciji 2 in jih v določeni meri ponudi v uporabo tudi drugim posameznikom, ki kaj takšnega potrebujejo. Podrobnejši opis tehničnih rešitev, ki jih je prispeval Borut Savski: http://www.ljudmila.org/~savskib/?p=1170
