Remembering makes us more human. Along the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the former Italian fascist camp Kampor on the island of Rab, APIS Institute’s team, which I am part of, created a video narrative about the evil of Mussolini’s fascism in five languages.

I was using my photographs, animating them, adding archival photographs, text written by colleagues Saša Petejan and dr. Urška Strle, as well as sound, composed by Ali R. Taha,  into the video, which you are kindly invited to see on the links bellow.

SLOVENIAN: https://lnkd.in/eZyzR5V
CROATIAN: https://lnkd.in/eCXK8cy
ENGLISH: https://lnkd.in/eQzBkeF
ITALIAN: https://lnkd.in/eV84cD7
GERMAN:https://lnkd.in/ehFZvhS

The art book Trubarjeva, Expressions of A Street in Transition, offers an intimate and anecdotal look at Trubarjeva street and the special life that has grown out of it over the decades, even centuries. The authors explore this unique street in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana through different artistic approaches and practices – through writing, photography, architectural sketches, collage and graphic design. An array of people’s stories as well as other verbal and visual testimonials are all interwoven to create this thoughtful and compelling – and visually flamboyant – publication.

Title: Trubarjeva, Expressions of a Street in Transition
©2019 APIS Institute and all authors

Texts: Jeff Bickert
Archi-sketches: Blaž Budja
Concept and portrait photography: Manca Juvan
Graphic Collages & Design: Sava Kosmač
Proofreading (SLO): Diana Pungeršič
Translations (SLO): Manca Juvan
Producer of Samosvoja Trubarjeva project: Romana Zajec

Media about TRUBARJEVA book:

TOTAL SLOVENIA NEWS

DNEVNIK

PROGRAM ARS – 3. program Radia Slovenija

VAL 202

STA

RTV SLOVENIJA, ODDAJA KULTURA

DELO

 

ORDER YOUR COPY ON: http://trubarjeva.si/home/

 

In 2019 I have participated as a mentor of the photographic module and as part of the Institute APIS team in the MULTIVIZIJA Project: multimedia, theatre and dance training for Vulnerable groups, that is carried out by the APIS Institute and a partner consortium.

The primary objective of the project is to train members of vulnerable social groups ( (over 50) – especially people with mobility disabilities, refugees and immigrants, in the fields of photography, video, sound, dance and theatrical play, with an emphasis on the Theater of the Oppressed. The starting point of the project encourages “artistic expressions” that thematise patterns of stigmatisation due to differentness and related victimisation as a form of exploring different options, how to use the art form as a tool of empowerment, a tool for acquiring new knowledge for higher employability, a tool for mobilising, motivating and promoting the proactive action of vulnerable groups.

You can read more about the performance and its additional program HERE.

 

Algiers – Amman – Beirut – Limassol – Ljubljana – Marseille – Napoli – Palermo

1 DAY | 1 SEA | 8 CITIES | 272 PHOTOGRAPHERS

I have curated the exhibition One day in the Mediterranean, which has had another opening, this time in Cyprus. The exhibition presenting results of a collective photo action FRAME Photo Marathon was prepared in cooperation with APIS Institute, the Embassy of RS Athens, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, and FRAME from Beirut. It accompanied the working visit of the Slovenian and Cypriot Foreign Affairs ministers, which aimed to deepen the interrelations between the two countries. On view in Limassol up to 17. november 2019.

*Thank you Syntonistiko Symvoulio Politistikon Foreon Lemesou for cooperation and for the exhibition images

Hosted as part of the Rijeka 2020, European Capital of Culture programme, the photographic-documentary exhibition Last Witnesses contributes to the preservation of the historical memory of internment in Italian fascist camps for the sixth consecutive year. The guests at the opening will be last living witnesses of the internment in years 1942 and 1943.

The Croatian exhibition opening is announced on September 14, 2019 at the Principij Gallery in Rijeka. The focus of the exhibition is on the survivors, their relatives and friends from Slovenia and the purpose is to try and  breake through a politically induced historic amnesia.

You can view the project, which was also published in a book form in 2016, through its web site: www.guardiansofthespoon.com

My short film ALI that was produced by APIS Institute and was made as part of educational materials on migration issues for high school students, was screened at 8. International documentary film festival DOKUDOC in Maribor, Slovenia. A short conversation about the film, its making and purpose followed the screening.

Thanks to Ali, for opening and sharing his personal story; thanks to the producer and editor Romana Zajec, narrator and color grader Igor Velše, and audio post-producer Ali R. Taha.

If you haven’t seen it yet, click HERE to watch the film.

Excited to invite you to this year of International documentary film festival DOKUDOC, where my short film ALI (made in production with APIS Institute ) will be shown. Join us for the screening and talk on Friday, September 6 at 8pm, in Sodni stolp Maribor, Slovenia.

CLICK for more info about the DOKUDOC festival

Renowned and award-winning Slovenian architect Blaž Budja, graphic designer Sava Kosmač, writer Jeff Bickert and I have joined a collaborative process, interviewing creative mediums to document the life of a unique street of Ljubljana where local initiatives, family businesses, world cuisine, artistic, activistic initiatives, and multicultural social businesses coexist in a vibrant equilibrium with graffiti, various street art approaches, and lively squat area.

Out purpose is to emphasize what is special, perhaps unique, and in the light of the current refurbishment, is worthwhile to “handle with care”.

The project, co-financed by the City of Ljubljana, will come to fruition at the end of 2019 in the form of a printed publication – an art book, spatial interventions on Trubarjeva Street and a website.

 

The year 2019 started with APIS Institute’s project Multivizija, as part of which my colleagues and I were running photo workshops for vulnerable groups. I am sharing some visual moments from the  discussion on empowerment and representation of vulnerable social groups through art experience and the photography exhibition opening of amazing works by Multivizija project‘s participants: Camilo Acosta Mendoza, Aber Al Gendy, Tina Cerk, Naiem Ibrahim, Kevin Koman Modic, Katrin Modic, Jelena Radusinović, Aljoša in Miranda Škaper, Romana Šteblaj, Naira Tahirović, Urša Tonejec.  The event was taking place at ZRC Atrium on May 30, 2019. Thank you for being with us.

Discussion participants: Nino Bektashashvili, mentor assistant, Jelena Radusinović, author, dr. Robi Kroflič, professor of theory of education and general pedagogy at the Department for pedagogy and andragogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Miranda in Aljoša Škaper, authors. Discussion was moderated by Manca Juvan, mentor and photographer, APIS Institute director.

Workshop mentors: photography mentors Luka Dakskobler in Manca Juvan and mentos assistant Nino Bektashashvili.

CLICK for more about the project Multivizija: Multimedia, Theatre and Dance Training for Vulnerable Groups

*Photo: Urša Valič

At the presentation of photography module, part of the Multimedia project including representatives of minority groups, in production of Apis Institute.