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Špela Trošt: 636,78

photo: Tomaž Grom
photo: Tomaž Grom
Work of the opus Let’s Work! (2022–2023) by Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba, Špela Trošt

Action in duration
Concept, text, performance: Špela Trošt

29. 1. 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
9. 9. 2023, festival Venere in teatro, Forte Maghera, Mestre-Venezia
21.–22. 11. 2024, Španski borci, Ljubljana

Performance
Concept: Špela Trošt
Text, performance: Marjeta Kamnikar, Liana Kalčina, Špela Trošt, Marija Pantić, Vesna Godler, Mary Anne Blanche

24.4.2023, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
25.4.2023, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
2. 12. 2023, Celjski dom, Celje
2.–3. 2. 2024, Hangar teatri, Triest, Italy
18. 5. 2024, Inkubator, Maribor
21.–22. 11. 2024, Španski borci, Ljubljana

Production: Teja Reba
Coproduction: Zavod Sploh
Partner: Moderna galerija, Zavod Bunker
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

29. 1. 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

Photography: Marcandrea
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In her work booklet says:
- Professor of Italian and Slovenian
- Master of Dramatic Studies
As it was abolished on 1.1.2009, it does not say in her work booklet
- Doctor of Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture

The Old Age Pension would be:

“My body as a visible thing is the content in a big scene. But my seeing body supports this visible body and with it everything that is visible.” (Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2000. The Visible and the Invisible. Phainomena. Ljubljana: Nova revija, 122)

The traces of work are inscribed in the body. The body is inscribed with experiences from birth to death, the experiences of generations before us, genetic and social memory, and historical and cultural affirmations.
Interventions on and in the contemporary body are increasingly radical. The dictatorship of appearance is giving rise to two distinctly opposing phenomena, cosmetic surgery and the alternatively marked tattooing and piercing.
She insists on the (in)effective, (un)durable, (im)perfect, (un)emancipated, (in)sufficient, (im)potent, and obsolete in her own body.

Let’s Work! (20222023) deals with the problem of work. It invites us, through various artistic situations set in specific environments, to reflect on the meaning and value of work, the ways in which we experience work in everyday life, and how art is at work. In the first chapter (2022), artworks are contextualized in locations that play a constructive role in society in terms of the formulation of labor policies, and more specifically the formulation of strategies in the field of cultural labor, in public services that respond to labor problems, in institutions that educate the upcoming workforce, and in spaces that play a role in contemporary art practices. The spatial and temporal positioning of works for (re)viewing by both institutional staff and invited and casual visitors aims to widen the field of visibility of the artwork and its reception. In the second chapter (2023), the artworks will be presented in their entirety in exhibition and performance formats.

29.1.2023

Let's Work! exhibition, +MSUM 10h–18h / Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba in Špela Trošt

Let's Work! exhibition
+MSUM, 29 Jan 2023, 10h-18h
Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba and Špela Trošt

Last chance to see the Art at Work exhibition and the only chance to see the one-day exhibition Let's Work! 

As the Art at Work exhibition closes, we present the one-day event Let's Work! exhibition, conceived by Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba and Špela Trošt. The exhibition juxtaposes the works of the artists included in the Art at Work exhibition and the works of the aforementioned collective.

The works on display have been conceived as contextually specific actions for different sites that play a constructive role in society in the formulation of labour policies, more specifically in the formulation of strategies in the field of cultural labour, for public services that respond to labour problems, for institutions that educate the upcoming workforce and for spaces that cater to contemporary practices in the field of art. 

The works will be activated at certain times in the museum:
Self-portrait, 10h–18h
Warming Up, 10h–12h in 14h–16h
Happiness At Work, 10h–12h in 14h–16h
636,78, 10h–12h in 14h–16h
My Work, 10h–18h
What will you be, when you grow up?, 10h–12h in 14h–16h
Pause, 12h–14h
 
Production: Teja Reba
Co-production: Zavod Sploh, Kooperativa THD
Partner: Moderna galerija
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of RS

Thanks to: Glasbena šola Ljubljana Moste-Polje, Javno podjetje Ljubljanska parkirišča in tržnice, Zavod EN-Knap

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