Art Video Exhibition celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Red Dawns
18.00, Oton Župančič Library, Kolodvor
(main train station pedestrian tunnel), Trg OF 10, Ljubljana
Art video exhibition / Opening
The videos question representations of eroticism in relation to the social position of women with a good measure of irony.
Duba Sambolec (Slovenia/Norway): Collectors #3 Settings
(video, 2002, 31')
Is women's exquisite care for appearance erotic or perhaps grotesque? Video about eroticism and the beautifying treatments it requires.
Sub Rosa (USA): Vulva De/Re constructa (artists/producers: Faith Wilding, Christina Nguyen Hung, video, 2000, 9'19'')
Which depictions of female genitals are not pornographic? A documentary video about the aesthetics of female genital surgery, reconstruction of both labia and the reasons why women decide to alter their genitals.
Eclipse (Slovenia): Venera's Test (documentary video performance, 1999, 15')
A video document about Eclipse's 1999 performance Venera's Test from Kapelica Gallery. Biting and witty, the performance measured the exact level of excitement (not) induced by women artists in Slovenia.
Open until March 6th between 8.00 and 20.00.
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19.30, Gallery Kapsula (pedestrian tunnel Ajdovščina)
Art video exhibition / Opening
The videos present different perspectives on human trafficking and sex work.
Aprilija Lužar (Slovenia): *Video portrait Marina (video, 2006, 19'09'')
The first public testimony of a woman from Croatia who survived trafficking.
Deej Fabyc (United Kingdom): Catch/Snatch (video, 1997/2002, 9'32'')
The video performance by internationally recognised artist Deej Fabyc shows the process of changing the clothes of the protagonist from casual to working dress in the brothel's dressing room. The video is accompanied by the camerawoman's lascivious monologue describing what is happening.
Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia): First World Congress of Sex Workers and New Parasitism, (documentary video, 2001, 21'50'')
A video document of the First World Congress of Sex Workers and New Parasitism, the first public manifestation of Code: Red project which took place at the 49th Venice Biennale.
Duba Sambolec (Slovenia/Norway): I Don't Remember, NoHomeVideos© (video performance, 1999/2000, Color & Sound, 120', performers: Duba Sambolec and Laurent Amprimoz)
An authoritative and persistent male voice is trying to push the author out of the "screen frame" of public life...
Open until March 7th between 11.00 and 15.00.
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21.00, [A] Infoshop
Film screening
Sisters of No Mercy (dir.: Lukas Roegler, documentary film, 87', Germany/Nigeria, 2007)
Personal stories of four Nigerian girls whose dreams of a better future turned into the nightmare of forced prostitution on the streets of Europe. Told through the eyes of sex trade victims, Sisters of No Mercy is the first documentary film to shed light on this new form of slavery and the only major branch of organized crime that is controlled by women.
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