Kdo si ? Who are you ? update
January 9, 2012
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Who are you?
An open project of self portraying and exhibition brought together 774 authors in 65 days ! It happend in the City Museum of Ljubljana from 19 October – 21 December 2011
People were invited to create their own self-portraits in front of a mirror by triggering a photo shutter release cable and express “Who are you?” through both images and words that subtitled the self-portrait. Read the rest of this entry »
InCo International conference 2011
June 18, 2011
INCO GOES GLOBAL
for an exchange of good practices and initiatives
for a progressive, and sustainable development
of innovation ecosystems
on a local, regional and global level.
The Conference happend in National Council of Republic of Slovenia – April 2011
It brought together 7 countries in an open discussion on the changes, opportunities and challenges that innovation, as the value-enabler is bringing to our society. It illustrated how big and dynamic the space of innovation is in many different areas, i.e., leadership, tools, structures, and also in diverse levels of society, i.e. businesses, communities, governments, politics…
follow it on http://incomovement.si/upload/InCo/InCo-Conference.html
Project: ‘Značkanje!’ / ‘Self-branding!’
May 21, 2011
'Self-branding'
First happening: group exhibition Public Matters, curated by Branka Franceschi at the Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, February/March 2011
‘Self-branding!’ is an initiative for creating our own (human) brands on the basis of how I/you/we do things.
The people that participated in creating their own self-portraits were asked to express and write their own brands or mark the brand(s) on the list of suggested brands that use for myself.
Read on about some true ‘Branding-yourself’ results:
Marjeta Novak & Robert Kržišnik – Humus
May 18, 2011
They are partners as family, as well in business and self portraits reflects ther own way of cooping a successful life !
Jelica Greganovič
October 10, 2010
Jelica Greganovič is a very popular Serbian writer who decided to take ‘control’ of her portraits published in her book and distributed in the press …
Click on the image to see the gallery of her photo session!
Poetry translation workshop
During September 2010, residents at Škocjan (8th Intertnational Poetry Translation Workshop) were: Paul Polansky, Willem van Toorn, Tahir Mujičić, Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen, Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk, Milan Jesih, John Davies, Knute Skinner, Roberto Nassi, Radharani Pernarčič, Tina Kozin, Tatjana Jamnik, Irena Šťastná, Michał Kopczyk. Self-fish studio was ‘on location’ during the event, open and free for particiants as well as for local people whowanted to experience it (like Pierpaulo Sonnoli, photographer from Tieste, Bogdan Macarol, Jasna Persolja and others). The idea of setting up the studio for the workshop participants actually came from Iztok Osojnik, the heart and head of the event, and some fascinating creativity has been revealed.
You can take a look at some of the results here!
OHO after OHO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, September 4th 2010
September 7, 2010
Marinko Sudac and Branko Franceschi
OHO after OHO, a one day retrospective in collaboration between The Marinko Sudac Collection and The Institute for the Research of the Avant-garde at Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, 4th of September 2010;
Andrea Tagliapietra – Venetians in Venice about Venice
July 30, 2010
Andrea Tagliapietra
Andrea Tagliapietra is the first Venetian participating in the project ‘Venetians in Venice about Venice’. Andrea is the 3rd generation wooden boat builder, as well as boat designer. Family business ’Cantinerie Tagliapietra’ in Guidecca-Venice is now part of very vivid consortium of boat builders, as well as other businesses, offices, modern flats etc. in the area behind Redentore church. In the past years, Andrea also moved his business to Florida for some years. His profound relation to water and especially Venice lagoon is his motivation for his creative approach, especially in boat building design, for tradition of ‘living with water’ typical for Venice.
Read on to find out more about the project:
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This is how it all started!
July 10, 2010
Violeta Bulc also joined group exhibition in Town Hall in Ljubljana
Violeta Bulc contacted me one day with the wish to get family photos of Pina Maja, Žiga and herself. I thought: Oh my god, how can I do portraits that are truly honest and relaxed? Then an idea popped up that I first had twenty years ago: ‘do it yourself, do it in front of a mirror!’. A few days later, my first prototype with studio flashes and camera on the other side of a big mirror was operational and yielded surprisingly open-hearted photos. ‘Self-fish Studio’ started officially in January 2010 with a project & exhibition …
In the open air
July 9, 2010
'My Streets' - project by www.divjamisel.org
Self-fish Studio setup in its full performance is used in the project ‘My streets’, recording life stories of senior people from Ljubljana. They also had portrait sessions in front of their pensioners’ home. The stories and the self-portraits will be published in a book and in other media.
