REFERENCES PORTFOLIO TEXTS AUDIO/VIDEO SLOVENSKO

2007

On Her Pleasure: Naked Reading of Lacana, (SheKITCH): video projection; Festival Red Dawns, Ljubljana;

2006

Privateispublic, street installation: hot magazines, wooden container with windows; Boris Kraigher Square, Maribor;

Living Room and Public Air, installations in public space, Crash Test Dummy Ljubljana;

Sowertm (self-portrait), computer edited photo diptich; Self-portrait Today, UGM, Maribor;

2006/2005

Welcome to the Shopping Paradise, space installation, assemblage, sound, video, digital prints; Continental Breakfast Maribor, UGM; gallery Seven Seven, London;

2005

kitch wedding, happening, wedding, spectacle, show; Ljubljana castle, blue room; with: kitch, good woman power, music trio Sestre; with help: MEM couture, Olga Košica; DJs: kuroko, MM Checkman; postwedding happening in Metelkova Ch0; coproduction with City of Women;

United Colors of Metelkova., video-installation as the part of the project Alphabet City Topography (A. C. T.), the frontside and the yard of the etnographic museum in Ljubljana;

Living Room, space intervention in the public park, Ljubljana;

Public Air, one litre of the public air of the brand kitchtm for 4 EUR, objects-trading articles, park/street installation, selling action Public Is Amusing!, Ljubljana-Maribor;

Proclamation of the Selling of the Public, action of total sale, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana;

No Politics, Just Sex, apolitical erotical act of Tandem Rich, Maribor;

2005/2004

Por.no kitchtm, almost readymade radio/audio performance, 11 minutes of the pure pornography, since Novembre 2004 every Friday @ 24.00h on community radio MARŠ;

Audio kitchtm, series of social audio-ads, reflecting the problems of animal abusement, sex abusement, women unequality, environmental polution, sustainable developmnet, consumer culture; ads are part of the daily programme of community radio MARŠ (www.radiomars.si/live.html);

2004

kitchtm 2in1, incorporated projects Urban Local and Photographies of Vertical Smiles, the document of Maribor urban architecture and culture, digital prints, video and music from the local scene, gallery Media Nox, Maribor;

XXX Sale, video, in selection of V.A.I.A. 2004, International Show of Video Art of Alcoi, Spain;

kitchtm Shop, multimedial as-if-it-would-be-installation, 10th International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor, work in process;

2003

*Art Is a Merchandise Article, text, theoretical part of the Nenad J's master thesis project, University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Art; key words: commodification of art, commercialization, consumerism, systems of values, ready-made, new economy, exclusion of an observer, print, photography, video, internet, performance. Publication # UDC. 7.01:330.567.2:792.9;

Action XXX Sale, performance-installation-video, shop-window and interior of Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana + consumer friendly and specially planned advertizing action in Ljubljana and Mariboru, med 24. in 30. novembrom;

Shop Till You Drop, interpassive installation, ready-made, Forum Stadtpark, Graz European City of Culture 2003 / installation was included in project Friendly Fire (colaboration of ALU and FRI from University of Ljubljana);

Shop Till You Drop, interpassive installation, International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor;

2002/2001

XXX Sale, series of performances in shop-windows of shopping malls (Emporium Ljubljana/Maribor, Merkur, Modna hiša and Europark Maribor, also virtual action in Nama, Ljubljana);

2002

After Revolution, video/photo compilation exhibition (Goranka Matić, Škart, Olivera Miloš Todorović - all from Belgrade Beograda - and kitchtm), curated by kitchtm, Sinagogue, Maribor;

We're Travelling by Words, Thinking by Our Steps, an audio-textual installation (kitch's hommage to EKV, famouos Yugoslav rock band), a part of the project Tribunes In Exile [check out year 2002/00], Sinagogue, Maribor, Slovenia;

Le petit prince, multimedial performance-document, participates Slovene national theatre festival Borstnikovo srecanje;

Le petit prince, video;

XXX Sale, video loop, 8th IFCA, Maribor, Slovenia / N.Y. Shock Society project, group exhibition of the Video Department of the Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana;

XXX Sale, advertizing action, cities' lighting billboards, Slovenia;

XXX Sale, digital prints exhibition, parts of human body on sale, KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana;

Back to Garage, video film, (p)1997 Nenad J & Omen Theatre, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia, Aprilski susreti 2002;

2002/2000

Tribunes In Exile, cultural interchange project, conception and coordination by kitch, partners: ŠKUC Ljubljana, Radio Index Belgrade, Radio Student Ljubljana, Radio MARŠ Maribor;

2001

Video Exile, multimedial happening, 2 videos + DJ, Gallery Rotovž, Maribor, collaboration with Euro Underground, Chicago, USA;

Video Exile, presentation of low-budget videoproductions: Euro Underground, Chicago and Shock Art production, Belgrade, curated by kitch, gallery Media Nox, Maribor;

Le petit prince, mobile multimedial performance with literary background, was moving through 11 exhibition spaces of UGM Gallery, Maribor, total number of participants: 37;

XXX Sale, interactive web performance, 7th IFCA, Maribor / project Big Brother Is Watching You, group exhibition of the Video Department of the Academy of Fine Arts Ljubljana;

Sale, web project, produced by ALU and FRI, University of Ljubljana;

2001/00

Supernova, one year series of multimedia workshops in UGM Gallery, Maribor, conception and coordination;

2000

Project Sale participates symposium of The International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, ICATS 2000, University of Helsinki;

Sale, multimedial performance, Theatre Museum, Helsinki;

1999

Project In Exile treats the problem of an individual in exile, presented in Media Nox Institute for Cyber Arts Internet Base;

kitch Boys & Girls, book of artist, ISBN 961-236-048-0;

The Sale, spectacle for female and male consumer, laser projection, video, heart beat, shopping cart, photo-objects / Hisa Gallery and the open-air parking in front of it, Pekarna, Maribor;

The Sale, a stage action for one bachelor and one bride, video projection, poetry, photo-objects, selling of parts of human body, space intervention, sound, fire / Peace School, Maribor (Pekarna, Gustaf Hall);

other activities

Takes part in Memefest, the international festival of radical communication: conceptual graphic works Life's not work (2005), Recyclable Thoughts (2003, also in selection of the 20 best works of Memefest; gallery Interart, Ljubljana 2004; FDV, Ljubljana 2005) and XXX Sale (2002).

credits by the Expert Intermedia Commission of Slovenian Ministry of Culture

[kitch projects] "with stressed public note […] reach into community space, skipping with the new economy and present artistically coded manipulation with seriously constructed intreactive approach."

"The Action XXX Sale is intermedia performance with strongly articulated social dimension."




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