Marko Košnik: Ditopia KIBLA (remix) 2024

Marko Košnik: Ditopia KIBLA (remix) 2024
26 July–24 August 2024
MMC KIBLA/KiBela

We cordially invite you to the premiere of the photo animation with original music in a “spatial audio” setup Ditopia KIBLA (remix) 2024 by Marko Košnik, which will take place on Friday, 26 July 2024, at 7 p.m. at the KiBela, space for art.

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Between 2007 and 2011, polymedia artist Marko Košnik created an extensive body of work in numerous locations, for which he obtained the visual material by photographing while walking and traversing topographically connected public spaces and events. He presented the works in the spaces of the organizers at these locations as interactive installations and/or improvisations for a video instrument and for music collaborators.

In this way he created Ditopia Display, an interactive environment in which the audience could participate in the tracking interface video presented at MMC KIBLA in 2009, and Ditopia Displacement, a video concert with Irena Tomažin at KiBar in 2011.

Ditopia KIBLA (remix) 2024 is a well-rounded photo animation with over 1,700 photos, created on the basis of 15 years old material, combined with more recent images of events at KiBela and artKIT.

In 2009, we asked ourselves at Ditopia Display: “Folded images? Frozen moving images? A topographical film? Expanded cinema? Extended video? A man with a camera? Walking the space? A portrait of a commissioner ’in situ’? A self-contained system? A projection of the here into the here-and-now?”

Ditopia is generally used as an abbreviation for dystopia, the opposite of utopia, in this case as a separation between the digital and the analog, the virtual and the real in a web of images and sound and space-time.

Biography

Marko Košnik has been active as a polymedia artist since the 1980s. He composes electroacoustic music, develops synthetic instruments for the live manipulation of sound and digital video, directs and produces solo and group performances, builds poetic platforms and installations, which he expands with social and technological layers, up to interactive environments, which he prefers to program himself.

Since its foundation in 1986, the Institute Egon March (IEM) has been working with various collaborators on individual projects according to the founding principles of collective work:
- the collaboration is based on the individual artistic positions of the collaborators;
- only IEM projects are produced. Under certain conditions, they can be combined with independent productions by invited collaborators;
- the documentation of the realized productions is kept by IEM. The publication of the archive material is based on the principles of Creative Commons;
- if the organizers cannot meet the conditions for organizationally and technologically advanced productions, IEM and its collaborators build platforms that enable realization through the exchange of equipment and knowledge.

In this way, IEM has realized (by 2023) 72 productions, 28 of them international, with more than 30 international collaborators in 16 countries on the European continent as well as in Mexico, Japan and Indonesia.

< Marko Košnik: videography, 2024: video overlay of two consecutive photographs taken at a concert (DA)(NE)S, 2009

MMC KIBLA/KiBela, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor
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