Jasmina Cibic
Protocol for Utopia: The Dreams We Call Our Own (2023)
Performance
Courtesy of the artist
Jasmina Cibic’s new durational performance for Kunsthaus Graz builds upon research about a congress of cultural workers of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Titograd, Yugoslavia, in 1985, where artists, academics, and politicians shared strategies of achieving the self-determination of an oppressed identity. Cibic uses fragments of speeches held at this event as the libretto for a musical performance scored by Barbara Kinga Majewska. The work is performed by eight female singers distributed on suspended structures throughout the Kunsthaus.
Jasmina Cibic (1979, Ljubljana, Slovenia) is an artist who works with a wide range of media including film, sculpture, performance, and installation. Her site- and context-specific works are informed by archival research and examine the forms that soft power takes during historical, social, and ideological crises. Recent solo shows have taken place at The High Line, New York; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; MAC Lyon; and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz. Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennale. Her films have been screened at the BFI London Film Festival and Dokfest Kassel, among others.
Commissioned and coproduced by Kunsthaus Graz and steirischer herbst ʼ23
The Dreams We Call Our Own is part of the research project and film work Beacons, commissioned by IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, for the exhibition Self-Determination: A Global Perspective.
Supported by the Art Collection of Non-Aligned Countries Laboratory, a project of the Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro, Friends of Nomad, and SKICA–Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum
2.10., 11:00–16:00
Statecraft and Its Illusionist Machines
Artist workshop
*Booked-up*
29.9., 30.9., 16:00, 17:00, 18:00
Kunsthaus Graz
Lendkai 1
8020 Graz ♿
Free admission
Duration: 30 min.
In collaboration with Barbara Kinga Majewska
With the participation of the choir Vocalforum Graz
Singers: Saha Esbati, Eva Gugerbauer, Zane Kļaviņa, Melanie Rehrl-Leopold, Leonie Roubal, Marie-Therese Schwaiger, Leanne Tong, and Margareth Tumler
Rehearsal director: Franz M. Herzog
Commissioned and coproduced by Kunsthaus Graz and steirischer herbst ʼ23
The Dreams We Call Our Own is part of the research project and film work Beacons, commissioned by IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, for the exhibition Self-Determination: A Global Perspective.
Supported by the Art Collection of Non-Aligned Countries Laboratory, a project of the Contemporary Art Center of Montenegro, Friends of Nomad, and SKICA–Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum
2.10., 11:00–16:00
Statecraft and Its Illusionist Machines
Artist workshop
*Booked-up*
