Igor Štromajer + Brane Zorman

Ballettikka Internettikka 2001–2009

Internet Ballet

www.intima.org/bi

You are kindly invited to attend the opening of the exhibition on

Wednesday, 22^nd April at 8 pm at Škuc Gallery.

April 22 – May 21, 2009

Internet – Moscow – Bergen – TV – Ljubljana – Milan – Belgrade – Berlin – Hong Kong – Dresden – Olympia – Madrid – Velenje – Seoul – Svalbard

"We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."

(W. Churchill)

Ballettikka Internettikka is a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of Internet ballet. It explores wireless Internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live Internet broadcasting strategies.

From 2001 to 2009 nineteen different Ballettikka Internettikka actions were performed:

Net Ballet – Internet, 2001

Ballet Net – The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia, 2002

M-III Robot Ballet – Bergen International Theatre, Bergen, Norway, 2003

BRVI – Ballettikka RealVideo Internettikka – Television Slovenia - Cultural Program, U3, 2003

Autto Mobillikka – Ljubljana Motorway Ring, Slovenia, 2003

Illegallikka Robottikka – Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy, 2004

BEO Guerrillikka – National Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005

VolksNetBallet – Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany, 2006

Commerciallikka – Internet / Heineken Draughtkeg, 2007/2008

Portraits – Internet, 2007

Aeronauttikka – Internet, 2007

RenminNetBallet – Hong Kong City Hall, 2007

Stattikka – CYNETart, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Dresden, Germany, 2007

Olymppikka – Internet, Fire Polygon, 2008

Religgikka – Internet, 2008

SubAquattikka – Internet, 2008

Hydraullikka – Plaza del Rey, Madrid, Spain, 2008

Intermenttikka – Total Museum of Contemporary Art,  Seoul, Korea, 2008

Norddikka – Svalbard, Norway, Arctic Ocean, 2008/2009

Ballettikka Internettikka uses impossible connections to develop the possible strategies of resistance and disobedience. The project participates in the already existing protocols of communication, yet without being servile to these protocols, it opens up links between emotionality and technology, production and ethics, desire and organization, imagination and institution. The distribution of politics and intimacy without any reason and purpose, with the use of limited, defined and controlled protocols is a dystopia and an unsubmissive revolt to the world of capital, which can be disarmed only by the use of its own tactics.

Authors: Igor Štromajer + Brane Zorman

Theoretical Adviser: Bojana Kunst

Spatial Adviser: Irena Pivka

Ballettikka Internettikka is a co-production of Intima Virtual Base and Cona 2001–2009 and Aksioma 2003.

In the years 2001–2009 the following collaborators participated in various ways in producing the project – without them Ballettikka Internettikka would not have been the same:

Bojana Kunst, Irena Pivka, Janez Janša, Sakrowski, Sven Holly Nullmeyer, Nils Are Mohn, Åsmund Njøs, Giullia Ferrari, Viktor Stehanov, Robert Klančnik, Vlado Gotvan Repnik, Igor Delorenzo Omahen, Nathalie Boseul Shin, Sabina Yeowoon Lee, Eun Ji Kim, Jung-eun Lee, Ana Vujanović, Jelena Knežević, Marta Popivoda, Miroslav Kulić, Milica Pekić Conev, Johannes Birringer, Thomas Dumke, Klaus Nicolai, Sven Parmon, Nora Ng, Keith Lam, Diane To, Nathalie Hénon, Jean-François Rettig, Arturo Enrique Moreno Reyes, Jurij V. Krpan, Hooman Sharifi, Jaka Železnikar, Dejan Habicht, Tanja Lažetič, Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Aleksandra Kostič, Anne Roquigny, Daphne Dragona, Jana Renée Wilcoxen, Stanka Brljević - VPK, Christine Van Assche, Frederique Baumgartner, Mojca Menart, Iztok Premrov, Uršula Menih Dokl, Blaž Nardin, Marko Klinc, Julia Höntzsch, Ana Buigues, Barica Blenkuš, Nikolina Bujas-Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Aldo Milohnić, Aleksandra Globokar, Daniel Družeta, Bojan Golčar, Olia Lialina, Peter Pospelov, Laura Cantarella, Blaž Križnik, Ute Fischer

In the years 2001–2009 the project was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Spain, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Norsk Kulturfond, Arts Council Korea, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Cultural Service Department, the Municipality of Madrid, the Municipality of Dresden, the Municipality of Belgrade, the Municipality of Ljubljana, Epson.

Accompanying programme

• Guided tours of the exhibition: 12^th May 2009 at 6 pm and 21^st May 2009 at 6 pm.
   

• The retrospective exhibition in Škuc Gallery is held in conjunction with the 15^th Exodos Festival: The Other Art (3^rd – 8^th May 2009).

• Thursday 7^th May 2009 at 7 pm: A retrospective Ballettikka Internettikka presentation-performance by the authors – Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman (Exodos Festival).

The exhibition is a co-production of:

Škuc Gallery

Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts

Cona – Institute for Contemporary Art Processing
 

The programme of Galerija Škuc is supported by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City Council Ljubljana-Cultural department.

For further information contact Igor Štromajer on http://www.intima.org or

+386 41 703291.