Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid's Video Art Surveyed in Klagenfurt Exhibition
Running from May 11 to July 14, 2017, the 'Radical Contemporaneity' exhibition at Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt, Austria, features more than 30 years of collaborative video projects by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, curated by Aneta Stojnić. The display includes over 40 works dating back to 1982, which tackle themes of hyper-neoliberal commercialization and forgotten histories. Notably, their early video 'Bilocation' (1990) foresaw the disintegration of Yugoslavia, while 'Labyrinth' (1993) examined Muslim refugee camps. Since 2001, their focus has shifted to critiquing capital's profit motives and neoliberal governance. Gržinić, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, links the exhibition to the rights of the Slovenian minority in Carinthia, showcasing the 2015 video 'Seizure—Rewriting Counter-Histories' and the 2012 documentary 'Relations.'
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Radical Contemporaneity' runs May 11-July 14, 2017 at Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt, Austria
- Features over 40 video collaborations by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid from 1982-2017
- Curated by Aneta Stojnić, with support from Hemma Schmutz, curator of Kunstraum Lakeside
- Gržinić and Šmid began working in 1982 in Ljubljana during Yugoslav socialism
- Early video 'Bilocation' (1990) used documentary footage from Kosovo's 1989 civil unrest
- 1993 video 'Labyrinth' analyzed Muslim refugee camps near Ljubljana during Bosnian war
- 2012 documentary 'Relations' chronicles 25 years of lesbian group ŠKUC-LL in former Yugoslavia
- Gržinić references Slovenia's 'erasure' of 20,000 non-Slovene residents from registry in 1992
Entities
Artists
- Marina Gržinić
- Aina Šmid
- Aneta Stojnić
- Hemma Schmutz
- Raino Isto
- Marie-José Mondzain
- Maria Klonaris
- Katerina Thomadaki
- Mateja Rebolj
- Zvonka Simčič
- Toni Tršar
- Adla Isanović
- Žarana Papić
- Cherrie Moraga
- Bell Hooks
- Achille Mbembe
- Araba Evelyn Johnston Arthur
- Hiroshi Yoshioka
- Ivan Segre
- Hortense Spillers
- Maria Lugones
- Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Nelson Maldonado-Torres
- Ann Laura Stoler
- Marika Schmiedt
- Jonathan Beller
- Santiago López Petit
- Arjun Appadurai
- Alexander G. Weheliye
- Fredric Jameson
- Allen Feldman
- Suvendrini Perera
Institutions
- Kunstraum Lakeside
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art
- University of Maryland
- Television Slovenia
- Television Ljubljana
- Lentos Museum
- Alternative Film/Video festival
- ERSTE Foundation
- Council of Europe
- Neue Slowenische Kunst
- IRWIN
- ŠKUC-LL
- OHO
Locations
- Klagenfurt
- Austria
- Ljubljana
- Slovenia
- Belgrade
- Serbia
- Vienna
- College Park
- Maryland
- United States
- Carinthia
- Paris
- France
- Sarajevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Zagreb
- Croatia
- Linz
- Kosovo
- Srebrenica
- Armenia
- Russia
- Bulgaria
- Greece
- Germany
- Britain
- USA
- China