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Guided Tour of the exhibition Robot Museum with performance Fire Painting by Sanela Jahić  
RSR | Rotovž Exhibition Salon, Trg Leona Štuklja 2 & UGM l Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Saturday, 22 October 2011 at 11:00 in RSR
Guided by: Ida Hiršenfelder, publicist and visual art critic  

The second tour through the exhibition Robot Museum will be guided by Ida Hiršenfelder, a publicist and visual art critic, who regularly follows events on the Slovene as well as the international media art scene. During the tour, she will present some aspects of the exhibited art practices and put them into the context of the international milieu.

Ida Hiršenfelder (1977) is a contemporary art critic, assistant of video programmes and the DIVA (Digital Video Archive) Station at SCCA − Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts. She collaborates with LJUDMILA – ljubljana digital media lab and Aksioma − Institute for Contemporary Art on a regular basis. She publishes on Radio Študent and in the newspaper Dnevnik. Periodically, she writes for exhibtion catalogues.

Along with the guided tour, Sanela Jahić will execute the performance Fire Painting (2010). It is a cybernetic construction, which is composed of a set of 16 pumps creating pressure and pushing a lavish green colour kerosene oil mixture through the nozzles when the valves are released. The kerosene is sparked to combustion creating a formidable brilliant flame. The combustion is controlled by subtle movements of the sensor glove worn by the artist. She is literary playing with fire. The idea is built on a paradox of tactile handling of this primal element, using it as colour on a canvas like an action painter. She controls the image yet it constantly alludes her. Fire is the ultimate intangible and unstable light-based medium therefore any digital or electronic image can be emulated in its light (screens, projectors, televisions). There is no more frame no more edge, just endless folds of infinite becoming of the image.  

Sanela Jahić (1980) graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design with the works Scanner and Pendulum, presented in a solo exhibition at the Gallery P74. In 2003, she received the Prešeren Student Award for painting, graphics and video production. Under the organisation of the Kapelica Gallery, she has presented herself at the exhibitions Arzenal DEPO, Viba Film, Ljubljana (2009) and Device_art 3.010 Croatia_Slovenia_Japan, Tokyo (2010). During 2010, she achieved her MFA degree at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.

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