A text from the Culture.si archive! It was compiled by Helena Pivec in 2007 for the 2nd edition of the Slovenia Cultural Profile to introduce the emerging field of cultural industries in Slovenia. Six years later we decided to republish it on our blog to reintroduce the subject. Please, note that in this article the data is not updated and that … Continue reading
From 18 April through 13 July 2013 the international public has the chance to see 200 selected art pieces at the Petit Palais in Paris which present Slovene Impressionism and their Time 1890–1920. Five years ago a comprehensive project was presented at the National Gallery of Slovenia: four Slovene painters – Ivan Grohar, Rihard Jakopič, Matija Jama, and Matej Sternen … Continue reading
“Everybody should have access to culture and participate in cultural life.”* On 15 and 16 April the representatives of the European cultural ministries have gathered in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to participate at the 10th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers of Culture. As Peter Inkei from Budapest Observatory remarks, not so long ago “the western democracies (they were the only members of … Continue reading
The new Culture.si flyers are out! Designed by Atelje.Balant, who has provided also the portal’s layout, they are available for distribution. Please, let us know if you’d like some! Can you recognise the images behind each CULTURE.SI letter? All nine of them were taken from our free images collection: C = Laibach, documentation from shopping mall performance action Einkauf, 2003 (Photo by … Continue reading
A colleague from the archives confided to me over coffee that she never had and never could cheer for Croatia. I remember this statement well it was this summer when Croatia was eliminated from the European Football Championship. Although they definitely deserved the bit of luck needed to advance, many a Slovene only smiled smugly. A similar situation, only the … Continue reading
Of the more profound places of my memory, the spacious concert hall of Cankarjev dom on a certain spring evening in 2004 stands out as a curiously doubled occasion. I still remember the hypnotized wonder with which I gazed down upon the collective of Electric Masada playing their fiery music, which for an hour or so abolished the notions of … Continue reading
I arrived in Ljubljana in March of this year as a guest of the Eclectic Tech Carnival 2012 which was held in Metelkova, Ljubljana, in the context of the annual International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns. To my great delight, the first evening I was taken to visit Ljudmila, where the Ljubljana Theremidi orchestra was practicing. For someone … Continue reading
Just recently, in the midst of hysteric austerity measures and in light of radical cuts to state funding of cultural production, the government – in an act of good albeit dark and twisted humour – published a call for artists to participate in this years Statehood Day commemoration without getting paid for it. Supposedly it is an honour, even a privilege … Continue reading
“Eventually one gets numb …” Jože Cvelbar (1895–1916) in a letter to his professor, 1915* I love ‘contemporary archaeology’ and whenever I hike in the Julian Alps above the Soča river I look for the remnants of the Great War. In 1915–17 this vast remote territory was one of the front lines in Europe. The abundance of … Continue reading
Featuring Benjamin Kreže, Laibach (obviously), Speculum Artium, and a cameo appearance by Nikola Tesla It seems I haven’t finished thinking about Slovenia’s Black region, I find myself thinking again about the industrial legacy of Trbovlje and some of it’s contemporary cultural forms. A deep narrow river valley just outside the small industrial town of Trbovlje is dominated by Trboveljski dimnik … Continue reading
