Coming up

.:: April - May 2010 ::.
Bernard Murigneux (F)
Bernard's visit in Artists' Asylum will culminate in production of Symbionts - light sculptures, which will be exhibited at three locations in Ljubljana (Central bus station, banks of Ljubljanica river - The three bridges and the Dragon Bridge) from 15th May till 12th July 2010 during Lighting guerilla festival.
The Festival is organized by Stripburger.
Read more about the artist on: bernard.murigneux.free.fr

.:: May 2010 ::.
Kevan Trott (UK) - Earthbuilds Europe
Art center hosted Kevan Trott, chartered surveyor and environmentalist of the Earthbuilds Europe, who is the owner of the first 'official' earthship home in Europe. Kevan responded to our invitation to plan an earthship - a radical sustainable housing and met with architect Ira Zorko and building engineer Stojan Habjanič. We filmed an interview. Transcript of the interview and video coming soon!
Read more on:
www.earthshipseurope.com
earthship.org

.:: 21st - 23rd May 2010 ::.
3rd year students of the Academy of fine arts and design; University of Ljubljana / Sculpture Workshop
Mentor professor Jože Barši
Workshop of the 3rd year students of Sculpture at the Academy of fine arts and design will focus on reflection about the past studio work at the academy and discussion about possible formalizations of the final yearly student exhibition 2009/10.

.:: June 2010 ::.
Randomconnectionquest - Marie Danielle, Andy Stripe, Simone Strifele, Anna Krsikova (UK)
During their residency in Artists' Asylum, the collective will prepare a series of open interactive workshops in the Autonomous Cultural Center Metelkova Mesto. The participants of the workshops will be invited to joint recording of random sounds, which will be included in a music video, and help to draw visual presentation of the sounds. The results of the workshops - music video and zine - will be presented at the final event on 6th June 2010.
Read more about the collective on
www.myspace.com/randomconnectionquest
www.cakeworkshop.de

.:: July 2010 ::.
Seijiro Murayama (JAP/F)
Seijiro Murayama, experimental musician and composer living in Paris, will prepare a series of music workshops, concerts and musical-dance performances, dealing with fragile equilibrium of language and non-language. In his experimental approach, Seijiro is constantly researching music and silence. Workshops, concerts and performances will be products of his co-operation with slovene and foreign artists, which he established during his past residencies in Artists' Asylum (summer and autumn of 2009).
More about the artist:
www.kknull.com/anp_e_murayama.html
video clip

.:: August - September 2010 ::.
Maria Alicia Zamora Noguera (Nicaragua)
The 17th Anniversary of Autonomous Cultural Center Metelkova Mesto will host artist Maria Alicia Zamora Noguera. During her stay in Artists' Asylum the artist will create murals on outside space of Metelkova Mesto. The murals will be presented on two guided tours, followed by lecture and presentation of mural art in Latin America untill present day with focus on Nicaragua and guest artist's production. During her monthly stay Maria Alicia Zamora Noguera will prepare a mural workshop with artists Ana Grobler and Mateja Velikonja.
http://www.madc.ac.cr/mambo452/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=77
http://elattico.blogspot.com/2008/03/neo-grficas-y-un-documental.html

.:: October 2010 ::.
Gallery Octave Cowbel (France)
Art center was invited by Gallery Octave Cowbel to prepare a presentation of the center in Metz, France, as a part of establishing long-term co-operation between similar organizations dealing with artistic production and especially AiR programs in Europe.

Art center news

Legal/formal matters
It has been two years since the beginning of May that we have brought Art center back to life. But still we haven't managed to reach minimal working conditions required - this will happen only after we sign a contract with the Ministry of Culture about usage of the Art center premises.
In summer 2009 the government of Republic of Slovenia decided that Art center's activities should be maintained and therefore provided financial support to repay the debt of the Public fund for regional development. In exchange for the pay-off Art center had to give up the ownership of the premises. Since Art center was facing a public auction, we accepted this condition. The contract between the Public Fund, Ministry of Culture and Art center was signed in December 2009 (read more here). Our agreement with the Ministry of Culture about the usage of the premises was supposed to follow shortly after the aforementioned contract, but it didn't happen until the present day. Reasons for the withdrawal of the agreement remain unknown.
This situation (formal indistinctiveness, continued insecurity, etc.) unfortunately holds back all the activities Art center is meant for. Therefore we are mainly working on reaching agreement with the government; to enable further independent functioning of the institution and to ensure freedom of expression.

Co-operation
The contract with the goverment includes also co-operation of Art center with faculties and the Office for youth. Art center has established these connections in the past (intensive workshops with students of the Academy of fine arts and design, field work of the Ethnology and cultural anthropology studies, summer school of feminism with students of the Philosophy, etc.). Our wish is to continue with these activities, upgrade them and include them in the study plan. We are also discussing possibilities of co-funding with the Ministry for Higher Education.

Renovation
With spring a lot of outside activities at the Art center start: cutting grass, gardening... and preparing the wood for winter. Our main help came from ecological farm and employment center for voulnarable groups Korenika from nearby village Šalovci, friends Bojan from Križevci and Simon from Domanjševci and many more... TNX!.

In the past few months we up-cycled old computers we got from the Peace Institute, Ljubljana, and managed to put together two working computer stations. We also up-dated two computers for audio and video editing, catalogued library, painted the office, built-in oven for heating/fireplace. We are currently working on installation of shelves for the library and office/editing room.

Voluntary work/Help needed

We are organizing a voluntary action at the Art center... this time we'll be chopping wood (ooops, a mountain of wood!).
If you have blisters from sitting behind computers, would like to get rid of stress or agresiveness in a constructive way or just give us a hand, we invite you to join us!
For more info, contact us on our e-mail.
Modest residency, good food, drinks and pleasant company will be taken care of!

Recent events

.:: 23rd - 26th April 2010 ::.
Social center, ROG Factory; Ljubljana
"Last weekend in April the activistst of Social center Rog from Ljubljana had an organizational week-end in Art center. The need of such an event came from a fact that the collective of the Social center expanded in a relatively short period of time, therefore an organized work week-end was necessary to prepare further guidelines and to cristalize vision of our work in the future. At the same time we had to reflect upon our past activities; 'retreat' to Goričko also presented a possibility to step back and look at the intensive activity of the Social center in Rog of the past few months. During the visit we had 4 intensive meetings about the aforementioned themes and re-charged our batteries for further actions."
For Social center Rog, Danijela