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Metka Zupanič: ANTI – GLOBAL?

Center in Galerija P74,  Ljubljana
Vabljeni na pogovor Metke Zupanič in Vesne Bukovec v četrtek, 21. marca 2013, ob 18.30 v Center in Galerijo P74.
Sledi otvoritev razstave, ob 19. uri.

Metka Zupanič je uveljavljena intermedijska umetnica, ki se v svojih projektih ukvarja z odnosom med posameznikom in tehnološkim Drugim. V projektu “Anti – Global?” se osredotoča na način odzivanja telesa na dražljaje, ki jih generira človekova podzavest.

Že v svojih predhodnih projektih je tematizirala sodobne tehnologije, ki služijo kontroli in nadzoru. Projekt “How to Kill Something in Me” (2010, 2011) je tematiziral rabo tehnologij za nadzor in identifikacijo, ki so danes dostopne na prostem trgu. Povezovala jih je z realno grožnjo intervencije z orožjem, zlasti v podobi »specialnih enot«, ki postajajo del profesionalizacije državnih služb z “licenco za ubijanje”. Projekt je temeljil na vprašanju, kako upravljati osebne informacije v sedanji in jutrišnji družbi, zlasti v kontekstu družbe strahu.

V aktualnem projektu avtorica obravnava občutke strahu, ki se porajajo v posamezniku v izrednih in brezizhodnih družbenih, socialnih in ekonomskih stanjih časa poznega kapitalizma – časa navidezne svobode in “spektakla velekapitala”.
Projekt je materializiran v dveh samostojnih enotah. Skulptura v prvem prostoru je kombinacija dveh osnovnih geometrijskih teles, zasnovana kot metafora sistema, ki temelji na delu in stremi proti vrhu, kjer se perpetuira ‘dodana vrednost’. Občutek strahu je osrednji odziv na fizično in čustveno nevarnost objekta. Vrtenje krogle v objektu je vedno hitrejše in reprezentira pospeševanje sistema hkrati pa se avtorica osredotoča na način odzivanja telesa – njegove površine – na dražljaje, ki jih generira človekova podzavest.
Video instalacija v drugem prostoru je čista, konkretizirana prezenca, brez metaforičnih dimenzij. Predstavlja zgodbe treh posameznic/ikov, ki so v globaliziranem svetu našli delo in osebno srečo v Sloveniji. Njihovi potenciali so se po dinamični poti globalne mobilnosti realizirali tukaj. Kje torej živimo? V najslabšem ali najboljšem od vseh svetov? Ali nas dinamika hitrega časa, v katerem živimo, sili, da ustvarimo zase in najbližje najbolje, kar lahko?

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O avtorici

Metka Zupanič je zaključila študij kiparstva na ljubljanski Akademiji za likovno umetnost, kjer je leta 2005 tudi magistrirala iz novih medijev. V času študija se je izpopolnjevala na National College of Art and Design v Dublinu. Sodelovala je na številnih mednarodnih razstavah sodobne umetnosti mdr. v Gradcu, Benetkah, Lodzu, Gdansku, Skopju, Berlinu, Dunaju, Bratislavi, Novem Sadu in v Sloveniji na U3 (Moderna galerija), galeriji Kapelica, Centru in Galeriji P74, Galeriji sodobne umetnosti Celje idr. Od leta 2002 članica umetniške skupine KOLEKTIVE (skupaj z Vesno Bukovec in Lado Cerar).

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Produkcija: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.

Center in Galerija P74
Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1
1000 Ljubljana

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Metka Zupanič: ANTI – GLOBAL?

21 March – 9 April 2013
P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
Artist talk: Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 6.30 p.m. & Exhibition opening: at 7 p.m.

In her projects, the intermedia artist Metka Zupanič deals with the relation between the individual and the technological Other. In the new project “Anti – Global?”, she focuses on the way the body reacts to stimuli generated by the human subconscious.
Already in her previous works she has addressed the theme of contemporary technology which is in the service of control and supervision. The project “How to Kill Something in Me” (2010, 2011) thematised the use of technologies for control and identification which are available today on the open market. She connected them to the real threat of arms interventions, especially the image of “special units” which are becoming a part of the professionalization of civil service with a “licence to kill”. The project was based on the question of how to manage personal information in the present and future society, especially in the context of the society of fear.

In the current project “Anti – Global?” the author now deals with the feelings of fear which are born in the individual in the extraordinary and hopeless societal, social and economic conditions in the time of late-capitalism – the time of apparent freedom and the “spectacle of major corporations”. The project is manifest in two independent parts. The sculpture in the first space is a combination of two basic geometric bodies, signified as a metaphor of the system founded on work and striving for the top, where it perpetuates “added-value”. Fear is the central response to the physical and emotional danger of the object. The rotating balls in the object go faster and faster and represent the acceleration of the system, while at the same time the author focuses on the body’s response – its surface – to stimuli which is generated by the human subconscious.
The video installation in the other space is a clean, concrete presence, without metaphorical dimensions. It represents the stories of three individuals, who in the globalised world have found work and personal satisfaction in Slovenia. Using the dynamic path of global mobility, their potentials are realised here. Where, then, do we live? In the worst or the best of all worlds? Do the dynamics of the fast times in which we live demand that we create for ourselves and our close ones the best that we are able?

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About the artist

Metka Zupanič is an internationally recognised intermedia artist. After her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana, she continued her studies at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. In 2005 she completed her MFA at ALUO. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions of contemporary arts, among others, in Graz, Venice, Łódź, Gdansk, Skopje, Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava, Novi Sad and in Slovenia in Museum of Modern Art (U3), Kapelica Gallery, P74 Gallery, and Celje Gallery of Contemporary Arts, etc. Since 2002 she is a member of art group KOLEKTIVA (with Vesna Bukovec and Lada Cerar).

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Production: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute

P74 Gallery
Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1
1000 Ljubljana
www.zavod-parasite.si