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Slovenia – Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023

In October 2023, Slovenia will be the Guest of Honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books, under the slogan "Honeycomb of Words". Slovenia's exposure at the Frankfurt Book Fair is an opportunity to strengthen the export potential of national book creativity in the field of literature and illustration, meanwhile the effects can be seen in both the cultural and tourism sector.

Slovenian Book Agency is in charge of the project organisation. It has already intensified the translation of Slovenian books, mostly to German. The program will be curated by Miha Kovač and Matthias Göritz.

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Documentation of winner suggestion for Franfurt Bookfair 2023 Slovenian pavilion created by Urška and Jure Sadar and Martin Smrekar

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Slovene art abroad 2010 – 2023

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  Germany Berlin Babylon Europa

  
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  Austria Klagenfurt Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in Celovec/Klagenfurt

  
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  An exhibition by a sculptor Paola Korošec and painter Borko Tepina in the series A Window onto our Neighbour, organised by the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU). Co-organised by the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in Celovec/Klagenfurt

  
  

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  Canada Ottava Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Ottawa

  
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  SCI_ART - Art, Science and Technology Symposium, presented by the SAW Gallery, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

  
  

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Images

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  Still from the film Vertigo Bird by En-Knap Productions, with Iztok Kovač atop the chimney and Aleš Hadalin in the foreground.

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  The guided cycling tour along the Podzemlje Pece, Tourist Mine and Museum in Mežica.

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  Dance performance A Quick Story by Sanja Nešković Peršin and Branko Potočan, Bunker Institute production performed at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2004.

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  Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, preserved studio the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885 - 1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje. The museum display presents a special collection containing historic photographic equipment

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  Completed in September 1938, inaugurated by Benito Mussolini, the Italian ossuary contains the mortal remains of 7014 identified and unknown Italian soldiers who fell on the Soča Front. Part of the Kobarid Museum's outdoor museum tour.

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  Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

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  Mulc – Kiddo, a stop-motion animation by Kolja Saksida, produced by A-Atalanta and co-produced by ZVVIKS, presented at the Festival of Slovenian Film, 2009

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  Serkan Özkaya's Proletarier aller Länder installation at Moderna galerija (MG), 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, 2011.

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  Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2011

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Overview

Fields of Experimental Music in Slovenia

Luka T. Zagoričnik

Let's take a ride on the term experimental music, which currently mainly defines certain more fringe musical practices, across the expanses of various musical plains, styles and genres. We can apply this (overly) broad term to designate the varied creative simmering in certain segments of the present-day Slovenian music scene. A scene that spans the realms of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music in the context of modern classical music, free improvisation, experimental electronic music and sound art as well as their associated present-day trends. This scene is diverse and exceptionally agile. It has developed a strong infrastructure for itself (festivals, concert series, labels, international networks) and exists in the space between self-organising and DIY models and institutional environments.

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Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre

Laibach, Volk, Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009. This performance is also documented on the DVD Dead in Trbovlje (directed by Sašo Podgoršek) Laibach, Volk, Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009. This performance is also documented on the DVD Dead in Trbovlje (directed by Sašo Podgoršek)

Set in a modernist building in the centre of the town of Trbovlje, Delavski dom in Trbovlje (DDT) is a local and a regional cultural centre, being the biggest such institution in the Zasavje region. Besides the venue's own diverse and ambitious cultural programme of music, film, theatre, puppetry and visual arts, the centre also runs a new media culture project called Trbovlje, New Media Setting. While DDT's name points to its historical role as a "home" for workers, that is, a meeting place built to provide a venue for a large number of social related activities, today, Delavski dom Trbovlje is home to a number of cultural and educational institutions, including a music school, thus meeting many of the cultural and social needs of the local and wider community.

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Laibach, Volk, Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009. This performance is also documented on the DVD Dead in Trbovlje (directed by Sašo Podgoršek)

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Osmo/za

Osmo/za is a collaborative space on the 8th floor of the 1960s' Avtotehna skyscraper at Slovenska 54 in the very centre of Ljubljana. It was set up in 2017 by a consortium of three NGO art/cultural producers with a rich and varied history: Ljudmila, which engages in the development and popularisation of open culture, free licences and software, and in new ways of data distribution; Delak Institute, a production house exploring post-gravity art and outlining a path for space culturalisation; and Projekt Atol Institute, whose activities range from art production to scientific research and technological prototype development and production.

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Soda 4060, workshop led by Staš Vrenko at Osmo/za, 2018.

      

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