Tuesday, 6. 12.
18.30, Old Power Station
Eight artists
Peak
Video performance (10′ in a loop) and installation of documentary material
2022, 60′
In Slovenian
Free admission
In 2021, eight (women) artists blew up a replica of the Aljaž Tower in the Gabrovec quarry in collaboration with a certified blasting contractor. The explosion was a response to the increasingly nationalistic and conservative social climate in Slovenia. In a subversive move, the artists staged a fake terrorist action to question the current social situation.
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In addition to the footage of the action projected on the big screen, there will be extensive documentation on the course of the action, all those involved, and all the complications.
Artists:Urška Brodar, Tajči Čekada, Tina Dobnik, Meta Grgurevič, Olja Grubić, Betina Habjanič, Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar,
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Art historian Noah Charney has written on the Peak in “From Virtual Terrorism Comes Unobjectionable Iconoclasm”. http://www.cityofwomen.org/sl/node/19309
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