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Teja Reba, Špela Trošt: Labour Day

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

Concept and direction: Teja Reba and Špela Trošt
Co-authors: Loup Abramovici, Mateja Bučar, Matjaž Farič, Tomaž Grom, Katja Legin, Lana Zdravković
Performed by: Loup Abramovici, Dimitra Alfirević Srhoj, Mary Anne Blanche, Vesna Godler, Tomaž Grom, Katja Legin, Liana Kalčina, Marjeta Kamnikar, Svarun Košir, Čarna Košir, Marija Pantić, Kalvin Radivojević, Bela Reba Abramovici, Pika Redžić, Špela Trošt, Iva Vidmar, Lana Zdravković

Lighting design: Špela Škulj
Sound design: Tomaž Grom
Selection of the music: Matjaž Farič, Katja Legin, Tomaž Grom, Lana Zdravković
Cover photo: Marcandrea
Technical team: Igor Remeta, Andrej Petrovčič, Duško Pušica, Manca Vukelič, Vid Starman
Cleaners: Marjeta Pogačnik, Darinka Županec Ivanovski

Production: Teja Reba
Co-Production: Sploh Institute
Partners: Bunker Institute, Ljubljana, En-Knap Institute, DUM – Association of Artists, MG+MSUM, Associazione Culturale YANVII
Financial support: Ministry of Culture and City of Ljubljana

24.4.2023, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
25.4.2023, Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana
2. 12. 2023, Celjski dom, Celje


Why are you working?

1. I can’t not work. For me, it is a commitment dictated not by rationality, but by instinct and inner need.
2. I work to survive.
3. To find beauty
4. I work because I have to maintain this system in order to survive in the society in which I live. Otherwise, I would be considered a fool, a chump, I would be put in an madhouse for life, at the expense of my fellow citizens, my fellow brothers, who pay a lot of taxes to keep me at a menatl hospital.
5. Because I have to live.
6. I don’t work, I am a painter.
7. Because I am in a system that I cannot get out of.
8. Because I like what I do.
9. I think the point of work is to contribute to society.

Let’s Work! (2022–2023) 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.

19.11.2022

Let's Work! #4: Self-portrait | Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba in Špela Trošt | MSUM

19. 11. 2022, 10h–18h, MSUM
Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba in Špela Trošt

Self-Portrait
Installation in the public space

Part of the opus Let’s Work!

Self-Portrait, precariously positioned between inside and outside, questions where art is at work, and, at the same time, announces its own position as something in-between: the installation being the inauguration of a larger project the chapters of which take place in locations other than the museum. Self-Portrait is displaced in space and time, and as such evades an immediate conclusion or goal, satisfaction or understanding. Nevertheless, in its concreteness, it invites us to see another exhibition, Art at Work, in order to get to know artists who, like us, think about work and thus recognize the collective to which we belong and which belongs to us.
The installation intervenes in the movement on the museum square. It is necessary to react to the new organization of movement in the public space, ¬by making a different decision, by paying attention, or observing the situation. Some will step into/on the artwork, others will add to the work as they pass, possibly stopping or making deviations around it. Thus each reader/viewer/connoisseur/ consumer of art completes it, interprets it.
The intervention in the public space acts as both incision and invitation, exposing both the potentiality and the emptiness of the artistic gesture. It alludes to the absence of an audience and the wider problem of disinterest in (contemporary) art in Slovenia, which may be the result of misguided public policies or simply of the smallness and provinciality of the country.

So who then is depicted in this Self-Portrait?

Authors: Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba, Špela Trošt
Production: Teja Reba
Coproduction: Zavod Sploh
Partner: Moderna galerija
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Let’s Work! (2022-2023) 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.

Previous events:
I Dream, Therefore I Work
I Don’t Work, I Practice Collectivity
Free Time

Upcoming events:
Warming Up
Happiness at Work
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Na delo!, Hangarteatro, Trst, Italija

2.12.2023

Teja Reba, Špela Trošt: Praznik dela, Celjski dom ob 19:30

25.4.2023

Teja Reba, Špela Trošt: Praznik dela, Stara mestna elektrarna

29.1.2023

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

2.12.2022

Let's Work! #5: Warming Up | Loup Abramovici | Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

19.11.2022

Let's Work! #4: Self-portrait | Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba in Špela Trošt | MSUM

10.8.2022

Let's Work #3: Free Time / Loup Abramovici, Tomaž Grom, Teja Reba, Špela Trošt / Estati Indiane, Cesena, Italija

10.2.2022

Na delo! #1: Jaz ne delam, jaz prakticiram kolektivnost / Loup Abramovici / Stara mestna elektrarna, Ljubljana

10.2.2022

Na delo! #2: Sanjam, torej delam / Tomaž Grom, Špela Trošt / Stara mestna elektrarna Ljubljana

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