+MSUM | 2022

Vuk Ćosić is an Internet veteran and pioneer of web art, as well as the co-founder of the Ljubljana Digital Media Lab Ljudmila. His artworks can be found in almost all international overviews of (new)media and web art.

The Art at Work exhibition looks at three different segments of the genealogy of the concept of (artistic) work in the region of the former Yugoslavia: first, the way work was conceived by the avant-garde artists of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; next, the transformations of the concept of artistic work and art spaces in the 1990s; and lastly, the labor-related political art practices since 2000.

Video installation (video length: 8 hours) In collaboration with Benjamin Nelson (Aviary, 2018, 6-channel sound installation)

Interactive sound installation

The Otolith Group’s work weaves together many strands of imagination and speculation about the past and the future, including science fiction, postcolonial history, music, and scientific discovery.

“Nika Autor shot three short documentaries around the razor-wire gates to create a shameful monument to the shameful times that will, at some point in the future, remind the embarrassed children of the barbarians to carefully remove the rusted razor-wire from the wounded wood and wounded flesh, to apologize profoundly, and to proceed with the reparations.” Jurij Meden, curator at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna

 

In Unfinished Stories about Encounters, Matjaž Ivanišin is exhibiting his films Karpopotnik (2013), Playing Men (2017), and Oroslan (2019) in the form of three video installations. The films are a blend of documentary and fiction, with the lines dividing the real and fictional blurred in a way characteristic of and specific to the filmmaker.