Cheers to Women! International festival of Contemporary Arts β City of Women is celebrating 25th anniversary. In their search for the authors, the curators analysed the video archive DIVA Station and looked through the former editions of the City of Women festival. A Performative Appetizer to Video Art , dedicated to video art created between and by Slovenian female videasts. Through the eclectic merging of written, spoken and performative quotes, the artist is forming a performative tale, encouraging viewers to an in-depth viewing of the exhibited works.
In that sense, the performance is formed as an experimental historical overview, otherwise different from the classical critical texts, but nevertheless awakening the video archives, contemporizing it and thereby encouraging a re-thinking of the meaning and position of artwork by Slovenian female video artists within the canon of art history.
The public programme includes guided tours of the exhibition and a lecture by artist and curator Ana Grobler , MA who has been researching feminist art in Slovenia for more than a decade. At her lecture, she is going to present the key art works with feminist content that have been created in the area since the mids.
She is going to focus on art works that use the medium of video and are connected to the Cheers to Women! Her lecture is also going to touch upon the social context in which this engaged art form is being developed in β and continues to be inseparably connected to. Invitation card pdf Exhibition info pdf Cheers to Women! The idea for the review of video- and film production was formed as a tribute to the first two marathons in and , organized within the City of Women festival by film director Maja Weiss.
That was the first comprehensive screening of productions by female film artists in the history of Slovenian film. It left a bitter taste, however, since it was only in that we got the first feature film by a female director Guardian of the Frontier by Maja Weiss was released.
