[syndicate] Break 2.4 international contemporary art festival

[anna balint]

	From: 	  nina.leban at break-festival.org
	Subject:  Break 2.4 international contemporary art festival
	Date: 	October 26, 2007 11:07:55 PM GMT+02:00


Break 2.4: Potemkin village, international festival of contemporary  
art, 9th edition; from 5th to 18th November 2007 in the city of  
Ljubljana, Slovenia.


BREAK 2.4 FESTIVAL: POTEMKIN VILLAGE

Break is a biennial presentation of Zavod K6/4. This international  
festival of contemporary art mostly focuses on urban and  
technological art practices. Break festival has become one of the  
most important contemporary art festivals in Slovenia and gained a  
worldwide reputation. Break 2.4, the ninth edition of the festival,  
will investigate the phenomenon of Potemkin village. This fictional  
village was allegedly built by prince Grigorij Aleksandrovič Potemkin  
to prevent the empress Catherine the Great from seeing poverty and  
misery of the regions he governed.
Turned into a commonplace that designates all sorts of manipulated  
social and political situations, Potemkin village has had a fruitful  
career, investing each realm of life, from pasteboard decorum to  
media agency, from staging of political regimes to tourism-oriented  
urban planning, from TV ‘reality shows’ to historical museums –  
a successful “architecture”, probably unique in transcending so  
many epochs, frontiers, genres or ideologies and an ad hoc setup that  
clearly poses the question of participation and collaboration.  
Initiators, actors and spectators are all involved. If an unfortunate  
gesture was to disrupt the play, it would pass unnoticed, for the  
Potemkin village is anchored in credulity, compliance and deliberate  
blindness. This is why it proves such a paradoxical device. As much  
as it hides in a situation, it also reveals, in the crudest light,  
perceptions and phantasms that would otherwise remain unknown. By  
showing worldwide examples of Potemkin villages, the festival seeks  
to investigate forms of mediation and mechanisms of representation in  
the political, social and artistic realms. The festival wants to show  
the role of art in both the construction and demystification of  
illusion. More than a mere presentation of artworks and projects, it  
demonstrates the limitations, compromises and counterstrategies that  
shape the visibility of art in the public sphere of a city. It  
presents a choice between deliberate blindness and taking up the  
responsibility to say that  “the king is naked.”

Break 2.4 will take place from 5th to 18th November 2007 at different  
locations in the city centre, that relate either to historical events  
or to most recent urban development of Ljubljana.


LOCATIONS :
Potemkin Palace (Bohoričeva st. 5, Ljubljana), City museum Ljubljana,  
Alkatraz Gallery, Club K4, Cyberpipe, Metropol Coffeshop, (A)  
Infoshop, JSKD, Dance theatre Ljubljana, Rog Factory, Railway station  
Ljubljana, Faculty of social sciences Ljubljana.


PARTICIPANTS :

Fabrizio Ajello, Gabrielle Ajello, Italy, Redas Diržys, Lithuania,  
Enrique Ježik, Mexico, Franck Houndégla, France, Martin Zet, Czech  
Republic,  Michael Laird & Carina Gosselé, Belgium,  Milica  
Miličević& Milan Bosnić, Serbia, Don Parker, GB, Takuji Kogo,  
Japan, Oleg Kireev, Russia, Jochen Roller, Germany,  Marija Gajicki,  
Serbia, Adina Bar-On, Israel, Francisca Caporali, Brasil/USA, Sonja  
Soldo, Croatia, Alexandru Solomon, Romania, Mirjana Preis & Studio- 
Contemporary Dance Zagreb, Croatia,  Emina Višnić, Croatia, Ryuzo  
Fukuhara & Martina Štirn, Japan/Slovenija,  Corrado Guzzanti, Italy,   
Hamdi Attia, Egipt, Rotem Balva, Israel, Salamanca, Israel, Ioannis  
Belimpasakis, Greece, Delphine de Blic, France, EIA, Germany/Belgium,  
Young hae-Chang, South Korea, Charlie Citron,USA/Holland, Omer Fast,  
Germany/USA, Harrell Fletcher, USA, Robert Franciszty, Croatia, Dejan  
Kljun, Croatia, Rafal Jakubowicz, Poland, Tadeusz Kantor, Poland,  
Neven Korda, Slovenija, Marko Kovačič, Slovenija, La Générale  
Collective, France, Zhenchen Liu, China/France, Christina McPhee,  
USA, Erbossyn Meldibekov, Kazahstan, Monochrom Collective, Austria,  
Not an Alternative Collective, USA, OPA Collective, FYR Macedonia,  
Jesus Palomino, Spain, Arjan Pregl, Slovenija, Irena Tomažin,  
Slovenija, Jože Spacal, Slovenija, Tjebbe van Tijen, Holland, Eugeny  
Umansky, Kaliningrad, Russia, Staš Kleindienst, Slovenija, Sebastjan  
Leban, Slovenija, Marina Gržinič, Slovenija, Constantin Borokhov,  
Russia, Francois A. Micheux, France, Helma Pollock, USA, Jaša H.  
Jenul, Slovenija Jiři Jílek, Czech Republic, Pulska Grupa, Croatia,   
Amir Muhammad, Malaysia, Marcos Martinez, Argentina, Federico León,  
Argentina, Phillipe Dutilleul, Belgium, Benda Hofmeyr, South Africa

RUN FOR ART: Saturday, 3rd November 2007 at 12:00; Ministry of  
Culture, 5 Maistrova Street, Lju






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Nina Leban
Break 2.4 festival PR
gsm:+386(0)41 462 236
nina.leban at break-festival.org

Zavod K6/4
Kersnikova 4
1000 Ljubljana
www.break-festival.org
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