Radio Program “Coma – Poetry from Here and There”, devoted to Joao Delgado recorded on Sunday 4th November,2007. Ljubljana.
http://sala-manca.net/Joao_Delgado_Revisited%20-%20The%20Ljubljana%20Chapter.htm
For a zoomify view of the installation of Tjebbe van Tijen:
http://imaginarymuseum-archive.org/Potemkin/PTTzoom.html
By Ole Frahm:
http://www.thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=708
Yes, the festival is over. We're now working on the catalog and video documentation. In the meantime, we will regularly update our web pages. You can start with:
Our exhibition web page:
http://www.break-festival.org/program/exhibitions/
Our symposium web page:
http://www.break-festival.org/program/symposiums/
You can check out Irena Tomažin´s amazing performance "Af ter the Po tem kin vi lla ge is go ne" on Friday, November 16, at 7 pm in the lobby of Ljubljana´s railway station. Don´t miss!
Adina Bar-On´s performance, scheduled for Friday, November 16, at 4 pm is cancelled.
Due to illness, the performance of Irena Tomažin is postponed to next week. Please consult the program to see when (day and time). The location will be the same.
Dance performance; Ryuzo Fukohara and Martina Štirn at the City Museum Ljubljana on Tuesday, 13th November at 8 pm! Be there!
Through their dance performances, Ryuzo Fukohara and Martina Štirn question the relationship between human body and its surroundings, architectural or natural - the position of human in the world. Their work is based on Japanese traditional dances, most of all Butoh dance, connected with western guidelines.
Mexican artist Enrique Ježik´s installation "Suspended parade" consists of four military vehicles and a tank, all tied together by chains.
Opening today, 7. 11. at 5 pm at the Museum of Recent History Ljubljana.
Till 8. 11., 3am
NJ´ing, Oleg Kireev´s event on 7th Nov. at 11 pm in K4 is cancelled.
Irena Tomažin´s performance, Thursday, 8th Nov. at8 pm, is cancelled due to illnes.
On October 30, our team was peacefully holding the festival's press conference on a boat when an artist suddenly jumped aboard and interrupted us. After resounding statements on the subject of press conference, the artist forced the journalists and team members to sing L'Internationale.
Our team vehemently opposes this kind of practice and denounces the ideology behind such hijacking.
Beautification undertaking for the Potemkin Palace
The program of exhibitions is online. Have a look:
http://www.break-festival.org/program/exhibitions/
The program of exhibitions and the venues where they take place will be announced this week on the website. For performances, events, and screenings, you can already check the program.
Interested in a home lecture? What if one of the festival's participants came one day to your place to talk about his work and about art in general?
If you wish to host a lecture, please contact the festival team:
info@break-festival.org
Inept conversation in anonymous bar
THE NOSTALGIC: You know, as I’m getting older, I indulge more and more in introspection. I come to realize how strongly some almost forgotten event or person has influenced my world view.
THE OTHER GUY: Well, man, it’s called idiosyncrasy.
THE NOSTALGIC: You see, last time, I was asking myself how the hell my work ethics has been shaped.
THE OTHER GUY: You’ve got so much time to lose?
THE NOSTALGIC: Come on! It’s important! Where do your models of conduct, principles, and ideas come from? How come I have developed such black and white a vision of the world, ‘we’ versus ‘mainstream’… And then I remembered! As a teen, I was a fan of Indie rock. All this stuff is the way my Indie legacy has survived in my artistic practice!
THE OTHER GUY: What a crap. Gosh, man! Are you back to 80s Manchester? Lost in Washington D.C. looking for a 5$-entrance ticket Fugazi show? That’s really bullshit.
The Ecclesiastes
Let’s agree to the idea that “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”. Why should we always try to invent forms when attractive earlier experiments are offered to our grateful re-appraisal? Based on this invigorating observation, one question: what would happen if indeed we transposed some Indie rock ideas into our symposium project?
La de di la de di da diddy
(The Libertines, “The boy looked at Johnny”)
Do you like The Libertines? Have you seen the documentary with footage images that show them performing in the flat of one of their fans? The police comes (the neighbours have complained about the noise). As Doherty and Barât hear the policemen in the corridor, they briefly look at each other and start playing “Guns of Brixton”. It’s nice.
The Libertines have been pretty good at guerrilla gigs. They would post a message on their website at the last minute, people would gather in some mysterious location (to be found on the basis of cryptic instructions) and go to some basement or living room where the band would perform.
The mountain
After all, if the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain. So, if the public will not come to contemporary art lectures, contemporary art lectures will go to the public. How? Imagine yourself, it’s 19:55, you pass the entrance door, you check the name on the mailbox (yes, that’s the first time you enter this building), and climb the stairs up to the second floor. 19:59, your finger is on the bell-push. 20:00, the door opens. You look around yourself. You’re proposed a coffee (or a glass of wine if you prefer). Your hosts are pleased to welcome you at their home. A few people sit in the living room. They have been invited for the occasion. Which occasion? Darn it, for your lecture!
Risky business, isn’t it? It is a straight confrontation in, to intimacy. There is no mediation between this small audience and their desire to see and listen to you, and yourself. There is no table or peers to protect you from the unexpected: drifts, criticism, or simply the subtle social constraints that stem from such invitation in somebody’s home. How will art speech sound in such personal, private an environment?
It’s a harsh reality-test too, since this invitation doesn’t come from your fellows (a process that generally spares you to know what are all the other symposia and conferences in which you could have perfectly fit, but have not been selected for). This time, your name is on a list – online. All the subjects you can talk about are itemized – online. The public chooses you – online. Good luck.
The festival "Break 2.4: Potemkin village" will take place from the 5th to 18th of November 2007, in various locations of Ljubljana.
In reference to the pasteboard village built by Prince Grigory Potemkin to deceive the empress Catherine II during her grand-tour of Ukraine and Crimea, the festival will present a manifold pesrpective on fakery, manipulation, spectacle, and illusion as they display worldwide in most various contexts.
More than 40 artists from 20 countries will take part in this investigation of the "potemkinization" of society.
The full program of the festival (exhibitions, performances, outdoor installations, symposium, workshops) will be available on the website in October 2007.
In the meantime, we invite you to have a look at our list of participants:
http://www.break-festival.org/program/participants/
To read our PV stories:
http://www.break-festival.org/pvstories/
And to consult the first stage of our Potemkin atlas. Click the red dots on the map!
A preview of the Break 2.4 festival in the centre of Ljubljana on Thursday, 13th September!
More info: www.utrip.org
