Kulturno društvo CodeEp
Rožna dolina, cesta II/36, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 40 809 809
Martin Bricelj, President
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Electronic music and festivals
In various sub-genres of electronic music, CodeEp organises performances by domestic DJs and VJs. CodeEp are DJ Borka, DJ Bakto, DJ Zhe, DJ Dado, Dj Woo-D and DJ Ozo, Rex, Mina Fina, Luka Dekleva and Martin Bricelj. CodeEp regularly invites international performers and DJs. The online radio station Radio Nula plays quality Soul, Funk, HipHop, Drum’n’Bass handpicked by CodeEp DJs.
Since 2000 CodeEP organises the traditional Festival Pomladi (Spring Festival), a festival of electronic music and visual arts initially situated at Tivoli Park in Ljubljana, which later moved to different locations throughout the city. CodeEP has also co-created several other festivals, such as Otokultivato at the island of Vis in Croatia, the Futura Festival in Sarajevo, and projectOUT in Helsinki.
Site-specific urban projects
CodeEP has co-organised a number of site-specific projects, among them, the ProstoRož project launched by a group of architects to revive the old city centre of Ljubljana, following the fashionable "revitalisation doctrine" of "urban renewal" in major world cities.
Similarly, Library under the Trees (Knjižnica pod krošnjami) was initially launched as a collaboration of Codeep, Divja misel and Azil Bookshop. CodeEp also organized Ljubljana - Belgrade Express festival and produced works of several Slovenian artists: Play VJ, Memory, RoboVox, FeedForward Cinema, Singing Bridges and many others.
Visual arts and design
From its very beginning, one of the Codeep’s missions was the promotion of urban art practices and design. Codeep’s design department is CodeSign. Codeep was one of the first organizations to promote VJ and urban visual culture in Ljubljana. Codeep also organised retrospective exhibitions such as the Chinese Political Poster, Yugoslav Political Poster and Atypeaks exhibition.
Residencies
Since May 2008 CodeEP has run the MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art programme of residencies for artists. As a museum in Space and Time, MoTA exhibits in public space in the broadest meaning seeking to revive degraded areas of the city by bringing art to those spaces that have been forgotten.
In 2009 CodeEP organised the first SONICA – Festival of Sound and Audiovisual Experimental Arts in Ljubljana's Jakopič Gallery.
MoTA residents have included Felix Thorn who was a guest at the first SONICA Festival and Jorge Rodríguez Gerada who claimed the outer wall of a three-story former tax-administration building in Ljubljana and adorned it with a temporary portrait of a Ljubljana resident as part of his culture jamming Identities series. In November and December 2009 CodeEp hosted the intermedia artist and theoretician Nedine Kachornnamsong (Thailand/Sweden), who worked in Ljubljana on some projects in collaboration with Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab.
