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The Admission Free Festival is an annual art festival featuring artistic interventions, actions, performances, and installations in the urban context of Celje. The festival has taken place since 1990, but it only gained formal standing in 1999 as a project of the Art Society of Celje (DLUC), whose members run it in collaboration with the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Art kino Metropol Celje, and (since 2012) the Celje Central Library.

Though centred on the Likovni Salon gallery, the festival invites different generations of visual and performance artists to turn the idea of the gallery inside out, so to speak, by moving the traditionally closed gallery space out onto the streets of the Celje town centre, where it becomes both a display space, a depository of art materials and a place of random encounters and exchanges. Visitors, both unintentional and intentional, are not meant to "follow" the events of the festival in a traditional, linear way, but to discover the festival and allow it to spark reflection about the manifold ways art interacts with everyday life.

Programme

The Admission Free Festival features a wide, constantly shifting selection of performances, exhibitions, installations, projections and public readings. Projects presented at the festival reflect the current affairs of Celje and its citizens as well as broader social developments. Each festival centres on a common theme decided upon in advance. The jubilee 10th edition of the Admission Free Festival in 2009 addressed "intolerance", and other themes include "collectivism", the impact of sound on art, and "shame". The 2016 festival was themed "nature and light" and featured close cooperation with the Lighting Guerrilla Festival. The 2018 version was dedicated to long-time Art Society of Celje member Adolf Mljač, and the theme of the 20th anniversary was "a look back".

The festival initially featured works primarily associated with the Art Society of Celje, with society members Franc Purg, Manja Vadla, Željko Opačak, Andreja Džakušič and Simon Macuh playing a very active role. As it has grown, its scope has broadened, and recent festivals have featured works by artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan and Belgium. The participatory nature of the festival is underscored by the active participation of students from the local high school, who in recent years have had an opportunity to collaborate with established artists in workshops and street performances.

Interactivity

Festival interventions regularly involve the public. For example, at the 12th edition of the festival, visitors were asked to bring sleeping bags to participate in Simon Macuh's work Bedroom – Good Night and Pleasant Dreams. In 2018, artist Jusuf Hadžifejzović set up his inquisitive Emptiness Shop in the framework of the festival, where guests could buy and sell "emptiness".

An important aspect of many projects is also hospitality and gastronomy. At the inaugural festival in 1999, Željko Opačak hosted Take a Little Piece of my Heart: featuring works by Andreja Džakušič and Boris Oblišar, the installation expressed how the co-operative participation of food by both the artists and the public creates new social spaces. At the 2013 festival, Mark Požlep presented his Drunk Cook Book and Manja Vadla hosted a picnic.

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 The [[Admission Free Festival]] is an annual art festival featuring artistic interventions, actions, performances, and installations in the urban context of [[SI-3000 Celje|Celje]]. The festival has taken place since 1990, but it only gained formal standing in [[established::1999]] as a project of the [[Art Society of Celje]] (DLUC), whose members run it in collaboration with the [[Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Art kino Metropol Celje]], and (since 2012) the [[Celje Central Library]].
-Though centred on the Likovni Salon gallery, the festival invites different generations of visual and performance artists to turn the idea of the gallery inside out, so to speak, by moving the traditionally closed gallery space out into the streets of the Celje town centre, where it becomes both a gallery and place of random encounters and exchanges. Visitors, both unintentional and intentional, are not meant to "follow" the events of the festival in a traditional, linear way, but to discover the festival and allow it to spark reflection about the manifold ways art interacts with everyday life.
+Though centred on the Likovni Salon gallery, the festival invites different generations of visual and performance artists to turn the idea of the gallery inside out, so to speak, by moving the traditionally closed gallery space out onto the streets of the Celje town centre, where it becomes both a display space, a depository of art materials and a place of random encounters and exchanges. Visitors, both unintentional and intentional, are not meant to "follow" the events of the festival in a traditional, linear way, but to discover the festival and allow it to spark reflection about the manifold ways art interacts with everyday life.
+}}
 ==Programme==
-Projects presented at the festival reflect the current affairs of Celje and its citizens as well as broader social developments.  Each festival centres on a common theme, which is chosen each year in advance. The jubilee 10th edition of the Admission Free Festival in 2009 addressed "intolerance", and other themes include "collectivism", the impact of sound on art, and "shame". The 2016 festival was themed nature and light and featured close cooperation with the [[Lighting Guerilla Festival]]. The 2018 version was dedicated to long-time Art Society of Celje member Adolf Mljač, and the theme of the twentieth anniversary was "a look back".
+The Admission Free Festival features a wide, constantly shifting selection of performances, exhibitions, installations, projections and public readings. Projects presented at the festival reflect the current affairs of Celje and its citizens as well as broader social developments. Each festival centres on a common theme decided upon in advance. The jubilee 10th edition of the Admission Free Festival in 2009 addressed "intolerance", and other themes include "collectivism", the impact of sound on art, and "shame". The 2016 festival was themed "nature and light" and featured close cooperation with the [[Lighting Guerrilla Festival]]. The 2018 version was dedicated to long-time Art Society of Celje member Adolf Mljač, and the theme of the 20th anniversary was "a look back".
+The festival initially featured works primarily associated with the Art Society of Celje, with society members [[Franc Purg]], [[Manja Vadla]], [[Željko Opačak]], [[Andreja Džakušič]] and [[Simon Macuh]] playing a very active role. As it has grown, its scope has broadened, and recent festivals have featured works by artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan and Belgium. The participatory nature of the festival is underscored by the active participation of students from the local high school, who in recent years have had an opportunity to collaborate with established artists in workshops and street performances.
 ===Interactivity===
-Festival interventions regularly involve the public. For example, at the 12th edition of the festival visitors were asked to bring sleeping bags to participate in [[Simon Macuh|Simon Macuh's]] work ''Bedroom &ndash; Good Night and Pleasant Dreams''. The following year, guests could rest while taking part in [[Kolektiva Institute|KOLEKTIVA's]] ''Rent a Tent'' project.
-An important aspect of many projects is also hospitality and gastronomy. At early festivals there were, for instance ''Take a little Bit of my Heart'' (1999) by [[Željko Opačak]] and works by [[Andreja Džakušič]] and [[Boris Oblišar]] who believed that the joint preparation of food a priori involves participation of artists and the public and creates new social spaces. More recently [[Andreja Džakušič]] organised a lunch and [[Klaus Mähring]] invited people for coffee at the 12th Admission Free Festival, while [[Mark Požlep]] presented his ''Drunk Cook Book'' and [[Manja Vadla]] hosted a picnic at the 13th festival (2012).
-Typically artists work in the city and with the city for the festival, and art interventions fill the city space with art in a communicative and unobtrusive manner. The artworks are integrated into the local environment and many of them are created on-site and specially for the occasion.
-==Past festivals==
+Festival interventions regularly involve the public. For example, at the 12th edition of the festival, visitors were asked to bring sleeping bags to participate in [[Simon Macuh|Simon Macuh's]] work ''Bedroom &ndash; Good Night and Pleasant Dreams''. In 2018, artist Jusuf Hadžifejzović set up his inquisitive ''Emptiness Shop'' in the framework of the festival, where guests could buy and sell "emptiness".
-A great deal of the organisation of the festival has always been in the hands of [[Celje Visual Artists Association]] members, especially active ones have been [[Franc Purg]] (during the first beginnings of the festival), [[Manja Vadla]] (from 1990 to 2010), [[Željko Opačak]], [[Andreja Džakušič]], [[Simon Macuh]], and others.
-Among the artworks presented at the early festival editions there were ''The Buyer Sets the Price'' (2005) by [[Milena Kosec]], ''A Lucky Raffle Ticket'' (2005) by [[Manja Vadla]], ''The Counts of Celje Today and Still'' (2000) by [[Dalibor B. Zupančič]] and others. Artists seek to shed light on the local situation and look for suggestions to improve the social environment, such as ''Litter'' (2005) by [[Franc Purg]] or his more recent action that included growing paradise at the 12th Admission Free Festival. Since its beginnings the festival has expanded and besides the members of [[Art Society of Celje]] there are also many guest artists from Slovenia and abroad.
+An important aspect of many projects is also hospitality and gastronomy. At the inaugural festival in 1999, [[Željko Opačak]] hosted ''Take a Little Piece of my Heart'': featuring works by [[Andreja Džakušič]] and [[Boris Oblišar]], the installation expressed how the co-operative participation of food by both the artists and the public creates new social spaces. At the 2013 festival, [[Mark Požlep]] presented his ''Drunk Cook Book'' and [[Manja Vadla]] hosted a picnic.
-The 13th Festival also included some collaborative projects as public reading that took place at many city locations and was done by [[Petra Kapš]], [[Zoran Srdić Janežič]], [[Sara Heitlinger]], and others.
 ==See also==
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 *[http://vstop-prost.naspletu.com/index_eng_2008.html 9th Admission Free Festival archival web page]
 *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqXVjjmHxg Admission Free Festival 2012 on youtube]
-*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0rThoeAFM 12th Admission Free Festival on TV SLO1] (in Slovenian)
+*[https://www.delo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/vstop-prost-za-adolfa-mljaca-62647.html Article about the 2018 Admission Free Festival and DUC member Adolf Mljač] (in Slovenian)
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Difference between revisions of "Admission Free Festival"

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