MFRU-KIBLIX2013: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Festival: November 6–9, 2013
Exhibition: November 6–25, 2013
Venue: KIBLA PORTAL, Valvasorjeva 40, Maribor, Slovenia
The name for the joint festival platform MFRU-KIBLIX2013: When Worlds Collide was inspired by the 1951 science fiction classic. The symbolism of the movie highlights the split and the paradox of the gap between the developed and the underdeveloped third world. In this context, the MFRU-KIBLIX2013 festival symbolizes live nature, the reality which we live in, which is intertwined and dependent on the swift development of science, technology and consequently art and new forms of creativity.
Contemporary interdisciplinary forms of creative conceptions are intertwined inside complex junctions of different worlds and approaches, in the tension between the natural and the bio-technological, the virtual and the hybrid, the fake and the genuine principle, which – in an abundance of dialogs, contradictions and junctions – becomes visible in the form of artistic installations, digital records of process works, performances, lectures, presentations, workshops and audio-visual pleasures.
For the first time this year, the MFRU-KIBLIX2013 is taking place at Maribor’s KIBLA Portal, an old textile factory hall spreading on over 2000m2, thus joining the dispersed festival units on a single location in a get-together of artists, people working in the field of arts&culture, researchers, scientists, educators and anyone willing to receive additional knowledge about the theoretical and research work, as well as anyone willing to share and experience the creative forms of artistic experimentation and interpretation; willing to discover, work, discuss, listen and share their ideas and findings.
The MFRU-KIBLIX2013 includes interaction with various target audiences and encourages an active collaboration by everyone, especially young people, students and people with long-time professional experience… Culture and science intertwine as disciplines, constructively exchanging cultural models of critical thinking, activism and experimentation with scientific methods, research and knowledge.
Program curators: Aleksandra Kostič and Nina Jeza.
Selectors: Aleksandra Kostič, Nina Jeza, Jože Slaček, Franc Vrbančič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, Ida Hiršenfelder, Marianne Wagner.
Exhibited artworks:
TANIA CANDIANI (MX), KATHY HIGH (US), MAŠA JAZBEC (SI), KARL HEINZ JERON (DE), MAJA SMREKAR (SI), OSCAR MARTIN (ES), TIAGO MARTINS, R. O’NASCIMENTO, A. ZINGERLE (PT), YURI KLEBANOV, ROI RONN, YONATAN BEN YA’KOV (IL), TIAGO MARTINS, VESELA MIHAYLOVA (PT), RICARDO O’NASCIMENTO (ES), VISUALISING PALESTINE (LB), DORON SEGAL, JENNY BAHAR, ITAY KURGAN, SHAHAR YACOBY (IL), DRAGANA SAPANJOŠ (HR), THERESA SCHUBERT (DE), SAŠA SPAČAL, MIRJAN ŠVAGELJ, ANIL PODGORNIK (SI), ZORAN SRDIĆ JANEŽIČ (SI), ROBERTINA ŠEBJANIČ, ALEŠ HIENG – ZERGON (SI), NITSAN HOORGIN, JULIAN RUIZ, INBAL COHEN (IL), EVA PETRIČ (SI), VOJKO POGAČAR (SI), ORTOTIP (SI)
Supporting program:
MFRU ARHIV, Jože Slaček (SI), HIPER FILM MFRU, Uja Irgolič, Marko Batista, Jože Slaček,
Miroslav Ničić, Marko Ornik, son:DA (SI), FEMINA (SI)
AV performances:
ELECTRIC INDIGO, MALAVENTURA, RICARDO O’NASCIMENTO, JOHNSMITH, ELISABETH SCHIMANA / NOID, ANA PEČAR / LUKA PRINČIČ, ROBERTINA ŠEBJANIČ,
ALEŠ HIENG ZERGON, OSCOFF, C-DRIK, ŽIGA PAVLOVIČ, GROOVY CARTOON SESSIONS, NEAGUSHI™, VJ POSTARTLAB & DJ DAMIR P. f.k.a. D’SUN, JOŽE SLAČEK, PRIMOŽ OBERŽAN, JAN STERNIŠA, ORTOTIP, YOANN DURANT, SAMO PEČAR, BENO SORŠAK, CAMERON BOBRO
Lectures and presentations:
William Myers, Angelo Vermuelen, C-drik, Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Christopher Fiorello, Jessica Anderson, Jerneja Rebernak, Tina Dolinšek, Zoran Poznič, Dejan Pestotnik, Jože Slaček, Djino Šutić, Monika Pocrnjić, Robertina Šebjanič, Luka Frelih, Žiga Kranjec, Stella Venciana, Vojko Pogačar, Tomaž Grušovnik, Arne Korsika, študentje FERI, študentje PF, Dušan Zidar, Natalija Premužič, Suzana Uran, Franc Vrbančič, Gregor Krušič, Ladies of the press
Workshopolgy:
Music composition and improvisation from a single sound source – Open Lab, [rdxs]:__x=e and generative systems – Open Lab, Synto-duino-beeper, Ladies of the press, My secret: Pleasure bpm, Biotweaking work_SHOP, Revaluating Memory, Q:aRt, Game today, job tomorrow, FIRST®LEGO®League, Robotics for girls, Magic Cube, Robocup – dancebot workshop, DIY Theremidi Orchestra, ShapSounds, Smilefection, Design your city, Print GREEN, Gaming Lounge: relaxation and play, MariborScore, Student Campus
More info: http://www.mfru-kiblix.si
CONTACTS
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visitors:
Nina Jeza
phone: ++386 31 330 275
e-mail: ninajeza(at)gmail(dot)com
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workshops:
Tanja Grosman
phone: ++386 31 682 579
e-mail: tanja(dot)grosman(at)kibla(dot)org
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press:
Sonja Gregorn
phone: ++ 386 2 300 29 95, ++386 41 849371
e-mail: sonja(dot)gregorn(at)mkc(dot)si
Dejan Pestotnik
phone: ++ 386 59 076 376, ++386 40 895 194
dejanx(at)kibla(dot)org
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