Illuminated Film Night
Screening of dance film Atelje
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Friday, 1 February 2013 at 20:00
participants: Bara Kolenc, Breda Kolar Sluga and Rok Vevar
The society of conspicuous characters of an art family is in a dusty hall with dusty thoughts, and through tearing tablecloth and covering eyes, gradually stepping into a dusty dance. A half-an-hour scene recorded in one shot at daylight, where the picture is getting darker until it almost gets completely dark, works as a foundation, as a common thread happening, into which various reminiscences or individuals’ fragments intertwine. The film Atelje was recorded in Šmartno, Slovenia, in September 2008, during the 10-day artistic residency, where choreographer Bara Kolenc and the group of dancers were rehearsing for the performance Atelje, which has been first shown at the City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, October 2008. The film is inspired by the extraordinary life and talent of the Slovenian sculptress Karla Bulovec. In the name of art, her extremely bohemian life with husband and dramatist Ivan Mrak renounced everything – comfort, home, family, even sexual gratification. Her creativity was mad, ambitious, masochistic, exaggerated in visions she could not realize. Atelje explores artistic creativity as an impulse, as a relentless desire to create, so wild and destructive that it can overpower the need for biological fulfilment, threaten one’s health by denying physical hunger, and can even be fatal. In the light of such savageness, art cannot be relative (as it is in the eyes of cultural politics and history), but absolute and vital, no matter how we analyze, mystify or objectify it. Artist talk after the screening with Bara Kolenc, Breda Kolar Sluga and Rok Vevar (moderator).
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