Cirkulacija 2

[cofestival] Sanja Nešković Peršin: Trenutek pred tem

Monday, 25 November at 7:00 pm at Cirkulacija 2, Ajdovščina underpass, Ljubljana

Sanja Nešković Peršin: The Moment Before (2024)

artist intervention

Duration: 30 min.
Free entry

Sanja Nešković Peršin in collaboration with film artist Atej Tutta offers us a possible key to contemplate her dancing, as it is submerged into a precisely sculpted audio-visual atmosphere. What is the body as a screen and what does it actually contain when it is embodied in a dance act? What is the body as a piece of optical data and what actually transcends its exclusive opticality? How is it even possible that our quotidian moments are mostly sensed by bodies in two dimensions only, and what else, besides such perceptions, is actually being stored in us?

The process of choreographic depersonalization is not new in the local contemporary dance space, but Sanja Nešković Peršin gives it a completely new form, in which we, the spectators, are placed in front of a human Thing, to which we have to assign a name.

Sanja Nešković Peršin is known to the Slovenian dance audience both for her work at the Ljubljana-based Slovenian National Theatre Opera Ballet and her work in numerous non-institutional projects, from Dance Theatre Ljubljana, the Muzeum Institute, to her own independent performances. Her personal dance stance has always been inhabited by a certain untamed, wild, vulnerable and poetic, yet ever so clever wittiness. Her last solo, The Moment Before, creates an unusual dance body: a body beyond time and concrete subjectivity, beyond what can be discerned and unambiguously identified, a mysterious and formless being trapped in an impenetrable place of itself. This is why it confronts us with the task of reflecting on how we see when we look at bodies, what we see when we look at dance, and how we recognise their different qualities and particularities.

Concept and performer: Sanja Nešković Peršin
Curator and author of the text: Yasmín Martín Vodopivec
Set-up and video: Atej Tutta
Music: Sašo Kalan
Production: NÓT Space for Art

Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenia in collaboration with Association Cirkulacija 2
Webpage: https://cofestival.si/2024/sanja-neskovic-persin-trenutek-pred-tem-2024/

Still fresh:

The Silent Movies: Po zabavi | After the Party

On Thursday, 14th November 2024 at 19.00, you are invited to Alkatraz Gallery, Metelkova Mesto, to the opening of the video-sound installation

After the Party

The Silent Movies: Borut Savski and Francisco Tomsich

The Alkatraz Gallery is open from Monday to Friday between 12:00 and 18:00

Francisco Tomsich: After Party is an interactive immersive installation and an ever-changing endless concert, an ecosystem of sound and projected moving images that explores the metaphor of resonance both spatially and conceptually.

After the Party exhibition is designed specifically for the Alkatraz Gallery and its Metelkova concept. The latter is conveyed by an installation of beer cans that tells a story about consumption and the politics of recycling, but also touches on the remains of the party, a fragmented concert of smell and sound, images and feelings related to the way home or the morning after the party, which are treated literally and metaphorically in sound and pictures.

Borut Savski: The sound image is based on sound agents that evoke destabilizing effects: fragmentation of the sound image and undefinedness, simultaneity/parallelism of larger sound streams. All this scattered around the room in the manner of six sound sources. No focus. Unclear voices, conversations, sound like tinnitus, vague musical echoes. Uneven ripple. The sound dynamics are driven by changes in the video image of the played silent videos, the camera that detects the visitor, and the internal inertia of the computer algorithm. A moment of silence would probably be appropriate. The six suspended sound sources are not speakers, but rather light vibrating sound bodies distributed around the room. Their task is to fill/ empty the sound space, which is nevertheless primarily defined by video images. Even the synchronicity between picture and sound is not intended to be clear – but rather subtle.

More at: https://galerijalkatraz.org/?p=20692

Francisco Tomsich (1981) is a Slovenian-Uruguayan artist based in Istria. He produces exhibitions, publications, stage works, collective platforms, research models and pedagogical devices, manipulating different media, languages and tongues. He is a co-founder and member of several non-disciplinary associations of cultural workers in South America and Europe. His work has been exhibited and published internationally and has been awarded several times. His practices deal with the urgency to create critical dialogues between images of the past, notions of the present and active models of the future.

Borut Savski (1960) is an intermedia artist who places great emphasis on sound – while simultaneously using technical solutions for unusual instruments and autonomous sound and visual structures/ sculptures. Closely related to this are the microsocial situations he enters and/or creates. The basic approach is at the level of metaphors – points where transfers/translations of meanings/motives/motivations occur between different discursive fields. Artistic production is always parallel and intertwined with other production. Technology, programming, music, outlook on society. Current preoccupation with tactile interfaces and interactively generated video/audio/music. Various and numerous collaborations, organizations and co-organizations of events/festivals.

Production: KUD Mreža, BOJA, Cirkulacija 2
Curation: Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk
Proofreading: Sonja Benčina
Translation (into English): Ana Makuc
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture