Vesna Bukovec

Bring In Take Out Living Archive – Ljubljana

Exhibition:The Bring In Take Out Living Archive (LA) – Ljubljana, Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition
Location: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
Date: LA Lab: March 7-10, 2012, 4 p.m. – midnight, LA Exhibition: March 7-23, 2012

Ljubljana edition features: Vesna Bukovec (Ljubljana), Ida Hiršenfelder (Ljubljana), Biljana Kašić (Zagreb), Margareta Kern (London), Tanja Marković (Belgrade), Karen Mirza (London), Vahida Ramujkić (Belgrade) and Aviv Kruglansky (Barcelona), Ana Vilenica (Pančevo) and many others.

The project is organized by: Red Min(e)d (Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović)

The Red Min(e)d in collaboration with the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (Ljubljana) and the Center for Women Studies (Zagreb) is organizing the second edtion of The Bring In Take Out Living Archive.

The second edition of LA consists of two exhibitions as live events. The artworks are emphasizing the archive as a paradigm for generating public space and new forms of sociality. In Alkatraz gallery the art works and screenings will co-create the laboratory for different exchange of information where anyone can join for documenting reality, live interviews, artist’s talks, and digitalizing or uploading on the spot. Kapelica gallery will host an interactive art project and public discussion on feminist strategies for the creation of an archive as a living knowledge. Beside reversing the traditional representations of women and re-questioning invisible histories (of women migrant workers), we tend to weave – in accordance with Rosi Braidotti’s concept of ‘becoming’ – the linkage across present and past in the act of constructing and actualizing possible futures.

With guerrilla action on the International Women’s Day 8th of March we are calling for resistance movements against all forms of social repression and economic exploitation by remembering the famous slogan of the textile women workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts on 8th of March, 1912: we want bread, and roses too.

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Bring In Take Out Living Archive – Ljubljana
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I am participating with two series of drawings: How to fail successfully (2011) and Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical (2012).

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In the series of drawings How To Fail Successfully, Vesna Bukovec deals with the failure of individuals in society that implies indirect violence with absolute values such as success, health and happiness in the fashion of a Do-It-Yourself manual. In the new series of drawings (Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical), through the cliché images of women taken from Web “stock-image” files used by media and advertisers, she depicts social marginalisation. Even if it is all about stereotypes, the presented situations are still so real. This series was inspired by the Tinza comics by Marko Pogačnik, published in the journal Problems in 1969.

Text from the catalogue Bring In Take Out – Living Archive (LA), Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ljubljana

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Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series How to fail successfully, 2011

Vesna Bukovec, from the drawing series Ali me nočete, ker sem kritična / Do you not want me, because I’m critical, 2012

My video Endless Game (2006) is also included in the Perpetuum Mobile Video Screenings (part of LA exhibtion).

Exhibition view