Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive.
Daniela Ortiz, collage from The ABC of Racist Europe series. Photo: artist’s archive.
6. October 2022
20.00 – 22.00

The South in Us: Othering (in) the Semi-periphery

Free admission

South-Eastern Europe has long held the belief that the history of colonialism has had no impact on its lands although even a minor shift in the perspective can produce numerous examples to the contrary. Consequently, race as the dominant term for the analysis of relations between the colonising and the colonised societies is not considered to be a relevant perspective to analyse the territories that Slovenia historically constituted. 

The South in Us exhibition in three parts as well as other festival events look at artworks and/as ideas that consider the historical and contemporary embeddedness of Slovenia and its neighbouring countries in the global history in which, on the one hand, South-Eastern European lands and their people have been racialised as the European Other while, on the other, coloniality left a strong trace in the views on racial hierarchies there as much as anywhere else. The artistic research included in the group exhibition on three locations and the two opening performances look at the othering of the semi-periphery by the centre and the othering of other Others by the semi-periphery.   

Curated by Iva Kovač.

Opening programme:

17.00, Alkatraz Gallery
The South in Us: Constructing and Performing Ideology exhibition opening with the performative lecture From Elite Occultists to Anti-revolutionaries and the NSDAP by Minna Henriksson

Exhibiting artists: Jasmina Cibic, Minna Henriksson, Tanja Lažetić and Daniela Ortiz. On view until 28 October

18.30, Mala galerija
The South in Us: NAM exhibition opening

Exhibiting artists: Doplgenger, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*, Naeem Mohaiemen in collaboration with Uroš Pajović and Selma Selman. On view until 3 November

19.30, City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Performance-installation An Indian in a Box by George Chakravarthi (on view from 18.00 to 21.00)

20.00, Škuc Gallery
Festival opening with dr. Asta Vrečko, the Minister of Culture, and The South in Us: Othering (in) The Semi-periphery exhibition opening

Exhibiting artists: Lina Akif, Nika Autorselma banich and Marijana Hameršak in collaboration with the Women to Women collective, Lana Čmajčanin, Anna Dasović, Ferenc Gróf, Šejla Kamerić, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Selma Selman. On view until 3 November.

The curator’s guided tours of The South in Us exhibition (free admission):

9. 10.: 16.00, Škuc Gallery; 17.00, Mala galerija; 18.00, Alkatraz Gallery – in English
14. 10.: 18.30, Škuc Gallery – in English
20. 10.: 16.00, Škuc Gallery; 17.00, Mala galerija; 18.00, Alkatraz Gallery – in Slovenian

On the opening day, it will be possible to travel between galleries with Kavalir (for a limited number of people).

Co-production: City of Women as part of the European project BE PART co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Škuc Gallery, Mala galerija, KUD Mreža – Alkatraz Gallery; support: Creative Europe, Ministry of Culture (KUD Mreža – Alkatraz Gallery), Ministry of Public Administration, Municipality of Ljubljana.

Artworks
Balkangreuel – Balkan Cruelty
Before the Fall There Was No Fall. Episode 01: raw material
Before the Fall There Was No Fall. Episode 02: surfaces
Our Rogue State (Extended Latin Alphabet Series)
Bosnian Girl
The Passage
The Passion of Slovenia
If the Forests Could Talk, They Would Dry Up with Sadness
You Are Awaited, but Never as Equals
Salt Water after 47
Artists and collaborators
Iva Kovač
Minna Henriksson
Jasmina Cibic
Tanja Lažetić
Daniela Ortiz
Doplgenger
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*
Naeem Mohaiemen
Uroš Pajović
Selma Selman
George Chakravarthi
Nika Autor
Lina Akif
selma banich
Marijana Hameršak
Women to Women
Lana Čmajčanin
Anna Dasović
Ferenc Gróf
Šejla Kamerić
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Video
Video: Urša Bonelli Potokar