Artist Talks: Ana Čavić, Ana Likar in Ana Pečar
moderator: Živa Kleindienst
In the scope of the closing events of EKO 9 Triennial, we invite you to a series of artist talks with artists Ana Čavić, Ana Likar and Ana Pečar, moderated by Živa Kleindienst. Three groundbreaking visual artists of different generations, working in video, performative practices, sound, drawing, storytelling, collage and other visual media, will present their interdisciplinary artistic practices. Through presentations and a discussion, we will reveal why and in what ways the artists approach themes such as human empathy towards nature, mythology, ancient beliefs, witchcraft, healing, disciplining women’s bodies, contemporary society’s relationship to ageing, and the various legacies of the natural in the context of contemporary power relations. We will discuss in more detail about the individual works by all three artists which are presented in the Eyes in the Stone exhibition, situate them in the curatorial framework of the exhibition and get to know what are their specifics and, moreover, what are the connections between them
The discussion with the artists will be followed by a performance or visual-performative narrative by Ana Čavić, A thread without end, Act I.
Programme:
19:30 Ana Čavić
19:50 Ana Likar
20:20 Ana Pečar
21:00 Performans / Ana Čavić: A thread without end, Act I
Ana Čavić’s presentation and performance will be held in English.
Ana Čavić is a visual artist, performer, poet and academic researching ‘performance storytelling’. Her interdisciplinary practice combines the visual and performing arts and she works across different media and fields, including art, literature and theatre. She creates works on paper, collages, papercuts, artist publications, digital poetry animation, interactive poem objects and theatrical storytelling performances. Most recently, she has been exhibiting and performing her piece A Thread Without End (2017–), which is an ongoing series of ‘visual storytelling performances’ staged in discrete acts. Each act of A Thread Without End features original poetry and a specially devised visual aid – a paper scroll (Act I, 2017), a tiled paper map (Act II, 2019), papercut puppets (Act III, 2021) and a set of paper hand fans (Act IV, 2023) – which she uses to tell a never-ending story in verse, in various analogue and digitally augmented formats inspired by historical performance storytelling traditions.
Ana Likar (1996) is a visual artist whose artistic practice combines ecology and the paradoxes of preservation and archiving, focussing in particular on how power relations are articulated through our understanding of the natural. Her work mainly comprises installations, videos, and texts and has been exhibited internationally. She has staged solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana (2022), Mikl House Gallery, Ribnica (2022), SCCA Ljubljana (2022), Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana (2022) and P74 Gallery in Ljubljana (2021), and exhibited in group shows at the Klima Biennale in Vienna, Austria (2024), the 13th Biennial of Young Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia (2023), the Youth Biennial in Belgrade, Serbia (2023) and the mumok in Vienna (2022). She graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2021 and is currently studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt. She is the winner of the 2023 OHO Award.
Ana Pečar is an artist whose work is based on video images of intangible, subtle, and at the same time expressive scenes from nature. Using media such as intermedia installations, spatial interventions, and photography, she creates spaces of contemplation in which the impulses of the external dynamic world come to rest. She draws her inspiration from various sources, from long visually-driven scenes by Tarkovsky or Kurosawa to the richness of the autochthonous way of life. Her focus is the power of silence. She explores the heritage preserved through oral tradition in remote areas and the cycle that connects the elements, natural cycles, fauna, flora, and people. Her aim is to relativise the unconditional value system in which we find ourselves.
