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{{Infobox
| name               = Lighting Guerrilla Festival
| local name         = Svetlobna gverila
| logo              = 
| street             = Metelkova 6
| town               = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| website            = http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/
| email              = core@mail.ljudmila.org
| telephone          = 386 (0) 1 231 9662
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| founded by         = 
| founded by 2       =
| organised by       = Strip Core
| frequency          = annual
| dates and duration = May-June, 20 days
| duration weeks     = 20,21,22,23,24 (2012) 22 (2013) 36,37,38,39,40,41 (2014) 
| festival dates     = 27.5.2015 - 16.6.2015, 16.5.2016 - 18.6.2016, 17.5.2017 - 17.6.2017, 11.5.2018 - 16.6.2018
| contacts      = {{Contact
  | name        = Katerina Mirović
  | role        = Head, Programme Selector
  | street      = 
  | town        = 
  | website     = 
  | email       = core@mail.ljudmila.org
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 31 401 556
  | fax         = 
}}{{Contact
| name                = Aleksandra Stratimiroivć
| role                = Programme Selector 
| email               = studio@strati.se
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https://sl-si.facebook.com/svetlobnagverila
https://www.instagram.com/festival_svetlobna.gverila/
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First held in [[established::2008]], the [[Lighting Guerrilla Festival|Lighting Guerrilla]] is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space and the 'confines' of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival "Lighting Detectives" (Detektivi svetlobe), it is founded and run by [[Strip Core]], otherwise predominately active as the comic art section of [[Forum Ljubljana]]. 

The festival is well known for its luminous, site-specific 'exhibition objects' presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic &ndash; among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience. 
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==Venues, locations and collaborations==

Being a festival that explicitly uses and transforms the 'matter' of public space, it is spatially very dispersed and as such collaborates with a number of venues like the [[Vžigalica Gallery]], the [[Tovarna Rog]], the [[SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture|Kino Šiška]], the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], [[RogLab]], [[Španski borci Culture Centre]], [[Cirkulacija 2]], the [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts|Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]], the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana|International Centre of Graphic Arts]], etc. 

It is also sometimes venturing outside of Ljubljana, having its pre- and post-festival stops at the [[Simulaker Gallery]] in Novo Mesto, the [[Centralna postaja]] in Maribor, the [[Hrastnik Cultural Centre] and some other places. 

The festival has closely collaborated with institutions and festivals like the [[Spring Festival]], the [[Strictly Analog Festival]], the [[Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts]], the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design]], the [[Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana|Faculty of Architecture]], the [[Museum of Architecture and Design]], etc. It is part of the international project Spectrum 14|15.

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== The invited artists == 

Both the local as well as international artists and producers are invited, in fact rather many of them. Some of them were Tim Etchells (UK), Max Sudhues (DE), Mirko Malle and AAI (AT/SI/world), Artificiel (CA), Maro Avrabou, Matthieu Tercieux, Dimitri Xenakis, Bernard Murigneux, Benedetto Bufalino (FR), Laurenz Theinert (DE) and Sophie Guyot (CZ), [[NatanEsku]], [[Tilen Sepič]], [[Aleksandra Stratimirović]], [[Marko A. Kovačič]] and the [[KUD Ljud]] collective. 


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== See also ==
* [[Strip Core]]
* [[Forum Ljubljana]]
* [[Strictly Analog Festival]]

==External links==
*[http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/en Lighting Guerrilla Festival website]
*[https://www.slavorum.org/ljubljana-light-art-festival-will-turn-slovenian-capital-into-spectacular-bucket-list-destination About Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Slavorum, 2017]
*[http://thelightdesign.ro/en/the-freedom-of-using-light-an-interview-with-the-light-artist-aleksandra-stratimirovic/ An interview with Aleksandra Stratimirović, cofounder of the LGF, Thelightdesign.ro, September 2016)]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr4dt1P070 Presentation of Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2008 with Katerina Mirović] (in Slovenian)

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