Cracks

Nina Dragičević, Tisa Neža Herlec, Urška Preis, Špela Škulj

Group exhibition

Luka Prinčič, Marko Batista and Lina Rica

AV performances

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM

Exhibition opening: 7 May 2019 at 7 p.m.

Performances: between 7 and 10 p.m.

Exhibition duration: 7 May – 2 June 2019

Exhibition organized by: Živa Brglez, Tina Dolinšek, Ida Hiršenfelder

Production: Zavod Radio Študent and Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

Cracks presents some of the associates of Radio Študent involved in developing experimental audiovisual practices independent of the radio. Their involvement with the medium of radio has helped them develop an aural métier that manifests in their works as a special sensitivity to muted, barely discernible, untold stories. It takes such sensitive ears to able to talk – sotto voce, in a variety of artistic media – about overlooked stories, forgotten deaths, violent screams, information disruptions, social intrigue.

Exhibition

In her series of photographs entitled Evidence Book, Špela Škulj acts as a collector of evidence about dead animals killed on the road, bringing us face to face with an intimate, unmitigated view of death in its barest, rawest form. Nina Dragičević’s performance and video installation Parallellax unveils sound proofs of domestic violence escaping into the streets as noise, paralyzing the victims. With portable electronics Dissonar, Tisa Neža Herlec produces in real time a social sound sculpture that transforms conversations into a pulsating noise sculpture. Herlec is also a collector of lost intimate traces recorded in the Elasticité zine. In a society afraid of pain, Urška Preis explores the physiognomy of pain by collecting evidence of it. Soaking wool in menstrual blood, she weaves carpets and makes photograms.

AV performances on the +MSUM façade

In a sequential, fragmented audiovisual journey, Luka Prinčič opens up cracks in apparently impermeable interfaces.  In their Composition in Four Parts, Marko Batista and Lina Rica present four parallel time sequences: the past, the present, the future and eternity.

Special thanks: Uroš Veber (Zavod Projekt Atol), Jure Sajovic (Kapelica Gallery), Španski borci, Konzorcij osmo/za, Aljoša Skubic (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia)

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Marko Batista (1976) is a Ljubljana-based intermedia artist, sound and digital video image experimenter and performer of computer-generated matrices. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, and received his MFA from Central Saint Martins in London. His work has been featured at several intermedia festivals and exhibitions both in Slovenia and internationally.

Nina Dragičević (1984) is a writer, composer and producer. She holds a master’s degree in sociology and has contributed significantly to the civil movements. She is the author of three books: a novel Kdo ima druge skrbi (Who has other worries) published by ŠKUC in 2014, and two books of essays, Slavne neznane: zvočne umetnice v konstrukciji družbe (Famous Unknowns: female sound artists in the construction of society; 2016) and Med njima je glasba: Glasba v konstrukciji lezbične scene (The Music Between Them: Music in construction of lesbian spaces; 2017). In 2016, Kamizdat released her solo album Parallellax. http://ninadragicevic.com/

Tisa Neža Herlec (1996) is completing her undergraduate studies of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In 2016/17 she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts Dijon, France. She is interested in a wide range of artistic practices. A trained musician, Herlec often confronts sound in informal environments and experimental practices of vocal improvisation and noise. She similarly also explores performance, theater and visual media. Her focus is on the common and the everyday and an understanding of the time, space and circumstances of her life and work.

Urška Preis (1992, Ljubljana) is a musician, harpist and visual artist. She completed both the Poljane high-school and the Secondary School of Music and Ballet (now the Conservatory of Music and Ballet) in Ljubljana. She pursued under- and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and, on student exchange, at Listaháskóli Íslands in Reykjavík and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. She is part of the musical duet II/III together with the electronic music producer Tine Vrabič – Nitz. While in Leipzig, she entered the contemporary music scene with her solo project rouge-ah, which she has so-far successfully presented at numerous venues at home and abroad, Last year, the Kamizdat label released her debut album bare. Currently, she is completing her MFA in photography in Ljubljana.

Luka Prinčič (1977) is a musician, performer and media artist, working in the fields of computer and electronic music, sound art, and intermedia installations and performances, focusing on various approaches to creative processes and their manifestations in art events and works. He graduated from the SAE Technology Institute in London with a BA in Audio Recording Arts. He specializes in computer music, elaborated funk beats, immersive soundscapes, incidental music for live arts and video, and digital media experiments. https://lukaprincic.si/

Lina Rica (1980) is an intermedia artist working in the field of installation, using video, prints, photography and animation. In her work she addresses the social processes of past and present worlds and their influences on the contemporary individual. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2008 with a degree in printmaking. She has received several awards for her works, which are included in many collections, including those of the MGLC – International Center of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Oficina Arara, Critical Mass, and Femicomix Portfolio. Between 2012 and 2016 she and Boštjan Čadež ran the GaleRica art space in Makarska. She currently lives and works in Ljubljana. https://linarica.com/

Špela Škulj (1982) is a visual artist, mostly working within the field of contemporary photography and video. Her interests and art projects are drawn for the most part from her background in cultural studies and can be defined as personal documentarism, often focusing on ecology and environment and the irreversible human impact on nature, but also loneliness and the lack of purpose of human existence in contemporary society. Beside her art and documentary projects she works as a theater technician and light designer at Španski Borci / En-Knap. http://www.spelaskulj.net/