LIGHTING GUERRILLA LABORATORY: Photosensitive
mentors:
Katarzyna Skrobala, Piotr Florianowicz (PL) &
Damijan Kracina
Park
at Krizankah, Ljubljana
25. Nov. 2016 - 4. Jan. 2017
The
Photosensitive project is part of the international Spectrum 16 project.
The Spectrum was created by more European festivals of
light. Students of the High School for Design and
Photography participated at the workshop and made a
serial of simple yet complex light objects.
Workshop was created by Polish artists Katarzyna Skrobala and Piotr Florianowicz, that work
at the Children's Creative Art Center and Gallery in Torunu.
They first realized it at the Bella Skyway
international light festival, a partner festival of
Svetlobne gverila.
TILEN SEPIĆ: Light Oscillator,
Lumina festival, Cascais, PT, Sept. 2016
KATJA PATERNOSTER: Domestic and Wild,
Lumina festival, Cascais, PT, Sept. 2016
LIGHTING GUERRILLA
16:
NATURE
The
main medium of expression in the works of contemporary
visual arts, presented at the Lighting Guerrilla
international festival, is obviously the medium of
light. The festival in this year, 2016, celebrates its
tenth anniversary. A look over the shoulder into past
decade reveals a great number of daring and often
demanding lighting installations that illuminated the
city and delighted its visitors and citizens.
It is a mere coincidence that the festival's program, in the year when Ljubljana boasts the title of the Green Capital of Europe, will also be marked by the same colour green. The main theme of this year's edition of the festival is namely NATURE. This is the reason we'll also be hosted in some city parks and the Botanical garden, in addition to other established locations. In addition to all that, we're beginning a multiannual project of a gradual creation and transformation of the Lighting park, situated next to the Gradaščica creek and created by Boštjan Drinovec. This year's program once again involves students from schools and faculties in Ljubljana with whom we develop new projects and, through a series of workshops, take care of their creative appetites.
Numerous artistic interventions presented here thematize and explore different meanings that nature has for the man in the modern society. Nature has been inspiring artists since time immemorial, but the contemporary ones are not satisfied with merely portraying it, but instead they use advanced technological tools to actively explore her mysteries. The members of the ČIPke collective, which is taking part of the festival for the first time this year, emphasize that „our conception of nature as a static, balanced and harmonic ecosystem that does not include the man or technology, is naive.“ Humans thus have a place in nature as much as is the other way around. Either as the godmother of creative inspiration, even mystical contemplation, or a venue for mysterious forces and process that raise scientificv and artistic curiosity, nature provides both artists and audiences a limitless quantity of material. The projects, shown at the festival, re-create the sublime beauty of nature, make space for playful substantial and formal arrangements and provide many starting points for various explorations and artistic experimentations.
Svetlobna gverila program is part of the Spectrum 16 – Transnational Light project, cofunded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Gilberto Esparza: Autophotosynthetic plants
André
Bahna: I've saved the sunset for you
Lighting
guerrilla
laboratory
Lighting
Guerrilla Laboratory consists of a series of
green educational workshops, realized with different
co-producers and mentors. The results of the workshops
will be presented on different locations of the
festival.
Info
& registration: Lili Šturm
(MGLC), t. 01/2413 818, e. lili.sturm@mglc-lj.si
coproduction:
Mednarodni grafični likovni center
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PARASITE
23. and 24.
April, MGLC
On the workshop that took place in MGLC
under the mentorship of Katja
Paternoster and Martin
Podlogar attendees learned the basics of
electrotechnics and about different materials which will
enable them to use the DIY and recycling methods to
create their own light projects. The topic of the
workshop, animal homes in the park, led them to debate
influence of people on our surrounding and research of
the biotope. During the research the participants
discovered a new creature, parasite, that can be noticed
to a skilled eye also during the day, but really comes
alive in the night-time.
Created work
will be presented in the park Tivoli at the Tivoli
castle.
Opening: Monday, 30. May, at 21.30;
until 3. July.
FANTASTIC
VEGETATION
11.
June, MGLC
The workshop, headed by Katja Paternoster and Andrej Štular, is intended for the
younger audience from the age of 8.
Attendees will
be discussing about the light that sparkles in the
night in the tree and bush canopies. With recycling
technic they will recreate the world that will become
alive in their imagination.
Results will be
presented in the park near the Tivoli palace (MGLC).
Opening:
Sathurday, 18th June, at 21.30;
until
3rd July.
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SUN AS THE
ULTIMATE CAPITAL
21. May and 17. June, MGLC
Attendees
of
the workshop, headed by dr. Špela Petrič, and
assisted by Andrej Štular, are going to learn about
the photosynthesis and its visible effects by
printing their own images onto plant leaves using
iodine. The first session (21.5.) will
focus on iodine printing and photooxidation on plant
leaves, while the other (17.6.)
on the review of the creations and the preparation of
an exhibition. Created works will be presented in
front of the Tivoli palace (MGLC) on a one-day
exhibition as part of the Summer Museum Night.
Opening:
Sathurday, 18th
June, at 21.30;
workshop mentors:
KATJA
PATERNOSTER graduated
at the Faculty of architecture in Ljubljana. She's
collaborated as an independent architect on several
projects and tenders with different architectural
offices. She also works in light design, where she's
most interested in highlighting contemporary themes,
presented using lighting installations in relation to
the spectator.
MARTIN PODLOGAR is
currently on his post-graduate studies at the Faculty
of electrotechnics in Ljubljana. He works with art in
his spare time and occasionally collaborates with
various artistic projects as a technical assistant.
Dr. ŠPELA PETRIČ (1980), with a Bachelor
in Biology and a Master's Degree in Arts, combines
nature sciences, new media and performances in her
artistic work. She's interested in all kinds of
anthropocentrism, reconstruction and appropriation of
scientific methodology in the context of society, living
systems and artificial life. Her work is complemented by
heading educational programs in the fields of natural
sciences and arts, intended to inform and sensibilize
the interested public, especially the young one.
