Jasmina Cibic
It struck me how transiency (and even the thought of a possible failure) of a political idea on occasion seems more comic and more tragic that the inherent transiency of a human life.
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Foundation of Endeavour centres on Jasmina Cibic’s ongoing investigation into the idea of political gifts of culture, exploring their role within national and political structures during moments of European crisis in the 20th century. The exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana (MSUM), curated by Igor Španjol, comprises several of Cibic’s recent works: All the Power that Melts into Noise, Foundation of Endeavour, The Spirit of Our Needs, and the 20’ art film project The Gift. The author argues that the multipartite exhibition succeeds in conveying often overlooked manifestations of “soft power” formidably well, thus shedding light onto the historical, anthropological and sociological facets of political gifts and also suggesting relevant considerations on the significance of notions such as “public art”, “internationalism”, and “national culture”.
Jaka Gerčar (b. 1995, Ljubljana) is a PhD candidate at the University of Ljubljana. His current research interests concentrate on reading practices in the humanities, publishing, and the social ramifications of digitisation. He also contributes essays and pieces of criticism in subjects such as philosophy, literature, and art. He is the head of publishing for Membrana Institute, Ljubjana and serves as the managing editor of the Dutch journal Depth of Field (Leiden University Press).
Jasmina Cibic (b. 1979, Ljubljana) is a London based artist who works in performance, installation and film, employing a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider a specific ideological formation and its framing devices such as art and architecture. Her work draws a parallel between the construction of national culture and its use value for political aims, addressing the timelessness of psychological and soft power mechanisms that authoritarian structures utilise in their own reinsertion and reinvention. Jasmina Cibic represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project “For Our Economy and Culture”. She has been shortlisted for the Jarman Award (2018) and was the winner of the MAC International Ulster Bank and Charlottenborg Fonden awards (2016). As of November 2020, her upcoming solo shows include macLyon, Muzeum Sztuki Łódź and Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Cibic’s recent monograph Spielraum is published by BALTIC and Distanz and NADA by Kerber Verlag and Kunstmuseen Krefeld.
http://jasminacibic.org/
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- Mauss, M. 2002. The Gift. London: Routledge.
- Nye, J. 2009. Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics. London: Hachette.