Mochvara Gallery presents
Speculations on Future – awaiting SferaKon 2014
HISTORY OF THE FUTURE (2012)
Maja Smrekar (SI)
exhibition opening: Thrursday, 10.04.2014, at 8 pm
artist talk and in situ project presentation: Friday, 11.04.2014, at 7 pm
@ Pogon Jedinstvo
The exhibition is open April 11th – 13th, from 17- 20 h
free entrance
History of the Future (2012), a multimedia art installation which takes us on a temporal journey through the cinematic archive of international science-fiction production. Organized as a multimedia presentation of content-based clusters of representations of possible realities of the future and the present, which follow chronologically from 1895 until 2009, and appearing
on a time line in the future, which ends in the year of 802,701. The interactive infrastructure of the multimedia installation offers the user a selection of contents, within which the author presents the socio-political contexts that shaped the zeitgeist of each historical period in which the selected films were made, while the presentation transpires in the form of a video lecture and in the style of philoscifi. Through the topics of sociological and media structure of popular culture, the author explores the anthropology of fear as it relates to the changes in the perception of nature, technology and, consequently, social psychodynamics through the phenomenology of the perception of time, which she offers to the viewer as a presentation of the juxtaposition of linearity and laterality.
Concept and execution: Maja Smrekar | Programming, graphic and sound design: Luka Marčetič | Installation design: Maja Smrekar and Andrej Strehovec | Technical planning: Andrej
Strehovec | Technical realization: RPS d.o.o. | Camera: Matjaž Mrak
Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana and the EU Culture Programme
www.aksioma.org/history-of-the-future/
Maja Smrekar (1978), a Slovenian artist focused primarily on the field of intermedia art; she deals with the phenomenology of perception, which she first started researching through space phenomena by composing live video among various collaborations in interactive sound/visual projects with other artists. Smrekar has been collaborating with the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana and with the Aksioma Institute, under which production she has
executed projects within which she was researching frequency phenomena through biofeedback and thelematic presence in relations to body, privacy and (inter)subjective perception of space. During the last few years she has developed projects within the field of bioart, with focus on living organisms. For her work she has received numerous awards, among others the Honorary Mention at the Ars Electronica Festival 2013 and the Golden Bird Award 2013 – the Slovenian national award for special achievements at the field of visual art by the Liberal Academy, Association for Political Democracy and Liberalism Research from Ljubljana.
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Mochvara Gallery, April 2014
www.mochvara.hr/galerija-mochvara, www.kontejner.org
galerija@mochvara.hr, kontejner@kontejner.org
organizers: Culture
Development Association “URK” + Mochvara Club, Aksioma - Institut for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana & KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis
concept: KONTEJNER
curators of Mochvara Gallery: KONTEJNER | Ena Hodžić, Ivana Jelača & Tereza Teklić
technical team: Andrija Santro & Hrvoje Horvat
public relations: Ena Hodžić & Danijel Badanjak
media partners: H-alter, Kulturpunkt, Radio Student
supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb - Municipal Office for Education, Culture and Sport, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana and the EU Culture Programme
