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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:07:55 +0200
From: Nina Leban <nina.leban la break-festival.org>
Subject: [artinfo] Break 2.4 international contemporary art festival


Break 2.4: Potemkin village, international festival of contemporary
art, 9th edition; from 5th to 18th November 2007 in the city of
Ljubljana, Slovenia.


BREAK 2.4 FESTIVAL: POTEMKIN VILLAGE

Break is a biennial presentation of Zavod K6/4. This international
festival of contemporary art mostly focuses on urban and technological
art practices. Break festival has become one of the most important
contemporary art festivals in Slovenia and gained a worldwide
reputation. Break 2.4, the ninth edition of the festival, will
investigate the phenomenon of Potemkin village. This fictional village
was allegedly built by prince Grigorij Aleksandrovič Potemkin to
prevent the empress Catherine the Great from seeing poverty and misery
of the regions he governed.
Turned into a commonplace that designates all sorts of manipulated
social and political situations, Potemkin village has had a fruitful
career, investing each realm of life, from pasteboard decorum to media
agency, from staging of political regimes to tourism-oriented urban
planning, from TV ‘reality shows’ to historical museums – a successful
“architecture”, probably unique in transcending so many epochs,
frontiers, genres or ideologies and an ad hoc setup that clearly poses
the question of participation and collaboration. Initiators, actors
and spectators are all involved. If an unfortunate gesture was to
disrupt the play, it would pass unnoticed, for the Potemkin village is
anchored in credulity, compliance and deliberate blindness. This is
why it proves such a paradoxical device. As much as it hides in a
situation, it also reveals, in the crudest light, perceptions and
phantasms that would otherwise remain unknown. By showing worldwide
examples of Potemkin villages, the festival seeks to investigate forms
of mediation and mechanisms of representation in the political, social
and artistic realms. The festival wants to show the role of art in
both the construction and demystification of illusion. More than a
mere presentation of artworks and projects, it demonstrates the
limitations, compromises and counterstrategies that shape the
visibility of art in the public sphere of a city. It presents a choice
between deliberate blindness and taking up the responsibility to say
that  “the king is naked.”

Break 2.4 will take place from 5th to 18th November 2007 at different
locations in the city centre, that relate either to historical events
or to most recent urban development of Ljubljana.


LOCATIONS :
Potemkin Palace (Bohoričeva st. 5, Ljubljana), City museum Ljubljana,
Alkatraz Gallery, Club K4, Cyberpipe, Metropol Coffeshop, (A)
Infoshop, JSKD, Dance theatre Ljubljana, Rog Factory, Railway station
Ljubljana, Faculty of social sciences Ljubljana.


PARTICIPANTS :

Fabrizio Ajello, Gabrielle Ajello, Italy, Redas Diržys, Lithuania,
Enrique Ježik, Mexico, Franck Houndégla, France, Martin Zet, Czech
Republic,  Michael Laird & Carina Gosselé, Belgium,  Milica Miličević&
Milan Bosnić, Serbia, Don Parker, GB, Takuji Kogo, Japan, Oleg Kireev,
Russia, Jochen Roller, Germany,  Marija Gajicki, Serbia, Adina Bar-On,
Israel, Francisca Caporali, Brasil/USA, Sonja Soldo, Croatia,
Alexandru Solomon, Romania, Mirjana Preis & Studio-Contemporary Dance
Zagreb, Croatia,  Emina Višnić, Croatia, Ryuzo Fukuhara & Martina
Å tirn, Japan/Slovenija,  Corrado Guzzanti, Italy,  Hamdi Attia, Egipt,
Rotem Balva, Israel, Salamanca, Israel, Ioannis Belimpasakis, Greece,
Delphine de Blic, France, EIA, Germany/Belgium, Young hae-Chang, South
Korea, Charlie Citron,USA/Holland, Omer Fast, Germany/USA, Harrell
Fletcher, USA, Robert Franciszty, Croatia, Dejan Kljun, Croatia, Rafal
Jakubowicz, Poland, Tadeusz Kantor, Poland, Neven Korda, Slovenija,
Marko Kovačič, Slovenija, La Générale Collective, France, Zhenchen
Liu, China/France, Christina McPhee, USA, Erbossyn Meldibekov,
Kazahstan, Monochrom Collective, Austria, Not an Alternative
Collective, USA, OPA Collective, FYR Macedonia, Jesus Palomino, Spain,
Arjan Pregl, Slovenija, Irena Tomažin, Slovenija, Jože Spacal,
Slovenija, Tjebbe van Tijen, Holland, Eugeny Umansky, Kaliningrad,
Russia, Staš Kleindienst, Slovenija, Sebastjan Leban, Slovenija,
Marina Gržinič, Slovenija, Constantin Borokhov, Russia, Francois A.
Micheux, France, Helma Pollock, USA, Jaša H. Jenul, Slovenija Jiři
Jílek, Czech Republic, Pulska Grupa, Croatia,  Amir Muhammad,
Malaysia, Marcos Martinez, Argentina, Federico León, Argentina,
Phillipe Dutilleul, Belgium, Benda Hofmeyr, South Africa

RUN FOR ART: Saturday, 3rd November 2007 at 12:00; Ministry of
Culture, 5 Maistrova Street, Lju






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Break 2.4 festival PR
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1000 Ljubljana
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