Fracture Point, a new audiovisual installation by internationally renowned artist Tadej Droljc, explores the aesthetics of power concentration within complex generative systems inspired by political, social and media dynamics, which the author abstracts in his distinctive style.
Laser structures embody a superior power, an external force that at times directly influences the genesis of the new digital world and at other times drowns and dissipates in it. The construction and deconstruction of pulsating luminous organic-geometric objects and networks and their relations within the void of darkness constantly alternate. The spectrum of scenarios, which are subjected to a broken timeline without a clear direction, keeps us in check as the rules of the game are constantly changing. Manipulations and power plays lead to a breaking point, a disintegration and a melting of our reality and beliefs. We are escorted into an uncertain future, the echoes of which can be detected in the past.
Fracture Point is a direct upgrade of previous projects and research by Tadej Droljc. It draws particularly on the visual aesthetics he developed for the SYNSPECIES project, which will be performed in the Katedrala Hall ahead of the installation’s opening.
14. 5. at 22.00 and 15. 5., 12.00–20.00 / Komuna
Tadej Droljc is a Slovenian artist and creative coder who works at the intersection of sound, image and light. His work received the Lumen Prize Student Award and the Dennis Smalley Scholarship in Electroacoustic Music, and he received the Most Promising Video Artist award at Madatac. His practice-based doctoral research received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Thesis at the Centre for Research in New Music. He has performed and exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Mutek, Paris Biennale NEMO, L.E.V., Brighton Digital Festival, Semibreve, Sonica Glasgow, Lunchmeat, Node etc. As part of his collaboration with Ars Electronica’s Future Lab on the project Immersify, his work is included in the permanent exhibition at Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K and has been featured at events like Inter BEE Tokyo, IBC Amsterdam and Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes.
The opening event of the V-F-X Ljubljana Festival of Experimental Audiovisual Practices, which takes place at the Slovenian Cinematheque, Kino Šiška and Aksioma.
+ AV performance SYNSPECIES: Asbu at 21.15 PM @ Katedrala
Organisation: SCCA-Ljubljana and Kino Šiška.
Free admission.
The development of the installation is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
The festival is supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
