Performance, cca 25 min
Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Premiere 24 Sep 2019 in Slovenian
Reprise 5 Ost 2019 in English
Production: City of Women
Co-production: SCCA-Ljubljana (DIVA Station), KUD Mreža
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, City of Ljubljana
The performance opened a group exhibition Cheers to Women! 25 Years of Film and Video, curated by Vesna Bukovec and Ana Čigon.
Cheers to Women! A Performative Appetizer to Video Art was dedicated to video art created between 1995 and 2015 by Slovenian female videasts. Through the eclectic merging of written, spoken and performative quotes, Ana Čigon formed a performative tale, encouraging viewers to an in-depth viewing of the exhibited works. In that sense, the performance was formed as an experimental historical overview, otherwise different from the classical critical texts, but nevertheless awakening the video archives, contemporizing it and thereby encouraging a re-thinking of the meaning and position of artwork by Slovenian female video artists within the canon of art history.
Ana Čigon (image 1), photos of the performance: Nada Žgank for City of Women (images 2 - 18)