You are invited to the premiere presentation of the project Fragments of a View in two parts by Ana Pepelnik, Lino Ric, Miha Šajina – Shekuza, Blaž Božič, Liara T’soni, and Aleš Hieng – Zergon, which will be showcased on November 12 at 8:00 PM at CUK Kino Šiška in Ljubljana.
Through two conceptually complementary new media works, Veduta Crumbles narrate and explore intimate and collective localised stories of individuals facing the phenomena of ageing, the disappearances of public spaces, the fragmentation of memory, the loss of meaningful, symbolic and social sites of value, freedom and the desire to integrate into social structures. Both works are based on poetry: the first on the poem V drevo by the award-winning poet Ana Pepelnik, and the second on the award-winning poetry collection by Blaž Božič, Mleček, žbunje: grobovi v njem.
The Veduta Crumbles I & II are two new media interweavings of twice x three contemporary artists: Ana Pepelnik (voice), Miha Šajina – Shekuza (sound), Lina Rica (visualisations/video), Blaž Božič (voice), Aleš Hieng – Zergon (sound), and Farah Sara Kurnik – Liara T’Soni (visualisations/video).
Blaž Božič (1991) is a poet, musician, classical philologist and translator. He has published poetry collections Grč (KUD Kentaver, 2011), Potem smo si vranice odprli na nežno valujoči livadi (KUD France Prešeren, 2013), K območnim poročilom (Center za slovensko književnost, 2016) and Mleček, žbunje: grrobovi v njem (Center za slovensko književnost, 2022, Jenko Prize 2023), and is also active as the guitarist of the band nevemnevem and the man behind the experimental breakcore-glitchcore project SsmKOSK.
Liara T’soni (Farah Sara Kurnik, 2000) is a visual artist working in the field of graphic design and video. She experiments with the medium of digital collage, in the medium of speculative reality, and is also active in the fields of industrial design and new technologies.
Aleš Hieng – Zergon (1984) is a DJ, electronic music producer and sound artist who is actively working in the field of AV performances and in the broader field of DIY electronics. His interests include producing clubbing music, as well as sonic and AV experiments. He is also a member of the modular-synth collective Clockwork Voltage.
Ana Pepelnik (1979) is a poet and translator. Her published poetry collections are: Ena od varijant kako ravnati s skrivnostjo (2007), Utrip oranžnih luči na semaforjih (2009), Cela večnost (2013), Pod vtisom (2015), Tehno (2017), Treš (2019), To se ne pove (2023). She translates American poetry. She lends her voice to a number of verbal/sound/silence/sound/noise events, one example being the CPG Impro.
Lina Rica (1980) is an award-winning artist working in the field of conceptual, experimental and new media art. Her works are part of the collections of MGLC, Oficina Arara, Riko Fine Art Collection, Longest Night and the Critical Mass Portfolio. Since 2019 she has been active as part of the A/V ensemble Marta Fakuch, and since 2020, as part of the A/V trio Etceteral.
Miha Šajina (1979) is a producer, DJ, keyboardist, composer and avid module collector. He has played in Intimn Frizurn, Moveknowledgement, Warhorse and Ewok. Since 2002 he has been working in the Zvviks collective, where he creates music for Koyaa animated films. He is intensively researching modular synthesis. Several A/V works he has co-authored have been awarded.
The project Fragments of a View is a co-production of KUD Channel Zero and CUK Kino Šiška.
The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture. The project partner is the company SilentDiscoSlovenija.
