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13th International
Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women
HUMOUR WORKS
Exhibition, Lecture, Film and Video Programme,
Discussions
Melanie Bonajo
(Holland), Anetta
Mona Chisa and Lucia
Tkacova (Slovakia/ Czech Republic),
Kanak Attak (Germany),
Valie Export (Austria),
Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
(Slovenia), dr.Keka
(Slovenia), kpD - kleines
postfordistisches Drama (Germany),
Jana Prepeluh
(Slovenia)
October 3 – 13, 2007
You are kindly invited to attend the opening
of the exhibition on
Wednesday, October 3rd at 8 pm.
The opening of the
Humour Works
exhibition shall also witness a presentation of the
publication – Humour Works Reader, a
thesis which reveals the fact that work not only
exerts an essential influence on the politics of national
and inter-European identity, but such influence is in
particular evident in communication and ultimately
self-understanding.
Further to this, the opening of
Humour Works
will also introduce
Short Story,
the first fire performance by Belgium artist
Gwendoline Robin.
This diligent pyromaniac will set off some
unconventional fireworks; and as to exactly where these will
be triggered – a clothes-hanger, maybe tube, or out of her
fingers – let this remain a surprise!
Humour Works is an international curatorial
and artistic project which elucidates the positive and
negative consequences of precarious – uncertain, difficult,
toilsome - working conditions, in particular in the context
of the old »Eastern« – or to put it differently: »the new«
Europe. The year-long project is comprised of four research
and performative stations that follow one after another.
After stops at Bratislava and Sarajevo, the project is
presented in Ljubljana, prior to heading for its journey’s
end in Berlin. The artistic programme is specifically formed
within local contexts, and aimed in particular at reflection
and reciprocal perception.
The main programme is the
Humour Works
exhibition, introducing
Melanie Bonajo
with Are All Cliches True?, a
series of photographs on irrevocable enslavement with
various tools; Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova
with a parallel economies space installation entitled
Private Collection II; Kanak Attak with
HOW TO GETto Europe, a multimedia installation on
migrant hardship; Valie Export whose response to why
work can't provide a living is a series of photographs
entitled Homometer II; kpD (kleines
postfordistisches Drama) group which - exceptionally smartly
- deals with the burn-out syndrome arising from a lack of
proper free time; as well as Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
who takes a look back into the history of women’s
professions with an interactive animation entitled
Yours. In addition to exhibition, Humour works
will present video screenings and a lecture by Tatiana
Bazzichelli on hacker ethics and networks entangled with
the precarious and the sexual.
Saturday 6th October, 6 pm
Tatiana Bazzichelli: Hack the Gender! Pink
networks of tactical and playful strategies
Lecture
Sunday 7th October, 6 pm
Humour Works screenings
Film and video programme, followed by a
discussion
More about Humour
Works:
http://www.cityofwomen.org/2007/festival/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=397&Itemid=254
Organisation: City
of Women
In collaboration with:
Galerija Škuc
The project was made possible by:
ECF, Trimo Trebnje
www.humourworks.org
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The
programme of Škuc Gallery is supported by
Ministry of Culture of the Republic
of Slovenia and
City of Ljubljana –
Department of Culture.
For
further information contact Alenka
Gregorič, artistic director of the Škuc
Gallery on +386 1 251 65 40,
galerija.skuc@guest.arnes.si.
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