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Volume two! We have been placed in front of a mirror by the commercialisation of the media, including the traditional, print media: this year's call for application issued by the Ministry of Culture with regard to co-financing media programme contents (JPR-MV-2010) reads, that »������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� the state���������������������������������������� «��������������������������������������� only covers up to a half of the financial value of media contents. The tender documentation included a form for the applicant to state that the project would not be co-financed from the national or local budgets or EU sources in more than 50% of estimated project value. – »The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.« is a remark accompanying Goya's etchings called Los Caprichos.* What you are looking at is an example of print media where each second page should come form a commercial source, i.e. an advertisement. This is what the Ministry of Culture tells us to do! While we are writing about artists and projects, presenting their works. Still. Although, according to these rules, we should dedicate half the pages to paid ads (for washing powders, my schaumas, sanitary pads, fast food, magic creams and razors, stain removal agents and multipurpose cleaners)? But we don't have to – we only made it to the »stand-in« co-financing list for the contents that we publish. A blessing in disguise? Our last year's issue has travelled the world as we put it into travel bags of everyone acting as our ambassador abroad. It was presented in Maribor in Ljubljana, at Berlin art fair, at Art Basel Miami Beach in the USA, it even made it to South America and to China - Beijing, Shanghai and Nantong. It was distributed across the wide European partner network comprising institutions and individuals in various countries, in various cities from Brussels to Sofia, from Helsinki to Braga, from Tallinn to Geneva. Thanks go to everybody who took it with them. It was noticeable and noticed, it earned positive and negative reviews. Wellintentioned remarks were taken seriously. Then came the wait for the media programme call, a period of forming this year's contents, inviting contributors and authors, talking with Slovenian galleries to participate and be presented in Folio. Our subtitle was changed to ��������������������� »�������������������� a newspaper for contemporary art, culture and the joy of life������������� «������������ , as contemporary art also integrates intermedia projects and the application of modern technology in art, whereas we are also interested in other contemporary artists. And, speaking truthfully – everybody kept asking what intermedia art was... Only the first issue was »pilot«: you know, it's like when deciding to shoot a TV series, the »pilot« is shot first to be tested. Similarly, we took on a media project last year, planned in the form of a traditional printed newspaper. Thus, we launched Folio, entered it in the media registry with the Ministry of Culture and applied for media co-financing successfully. This year we applied again in March, when devising the newspaper contents, and in May we also applied to the call of the City of Maribor. We acquired the ISSN international number to identify a print or electronic periodical publication. To publish such a medium means to print it, as a newspaper only comes to life when printed. When waiting for co-financing results when forming this year's contents, the dilemma occurred of printing and the related costs. And the time passed – and while enclosed in the castle tower of co-financing, our beard grew long enough to descend from the room at the very top and venture into the media forest...
Ljubljana is the world book capital and Maribor is set to be the cultural capital (the criterion of general informative, cultural, etc. articles). To be better ranked, the project would require more points for the first criterion – that of representation, and the importance of the criterion for the region. Generally a good project, yet it made the panel wonder whether this could be about a component part of media contents presented as a project.« Bertolt Brecht (who kept a bank account in Switzerland and ran his Berliner Ensamble theatre, situated in what at the time was Eastern Berlin) wrote fragments of a novel on Tuis.*** Tuis are intellectuals. Mr. B. used the acronym TUI standing for the word play TelektUalen-In, TUI. Tui was defined as an »intellectual of present time markets and goods. The lessor of the intellect.« Tuis philosophise at congresses (of clothing launderers) or sell their services for everyday use at stalls, on streets. »Come, man, we can do it standing up...������������������������������������������������ «����������������������������������������������� and advertising themselves with slogans ������ »����� Opinions being turned here. After the new.« And offering discounts: »Two smallish formulations for three yens.« The society is in crisis, people are hungry and naked, even the emperor complains to the prime minister: »���������������������������������������������������� I am beside myself with anger. To have to listen incessantly of how the country is doomed because of poor economy and corruption, all right. But to be deprived my second pipe after breakfast because of that! Enough is enough! Being the Chinese Emperor I don't think I should tolerate that!« We hereby present out media package of year two: this year's Folio is here, printed on paper, translated into English, so that (almost) anyone can read it, and the story continues with you leafing through, reading, watching and evaluating it. For this year's edition, we talked to Edward Clug, to the dancer and director of Udarnik Institute, Maribor Maja Arzenšek, to the director Ivan Mijačevič, to the Kosovo-based artist Flaka Haliti. Marko Batista is the author of an audiovisual performance that was staged in Kapelica gallery, Ljubljana, Conny Blom exhibited at Vžigalica gallery, the photographers Gábor Kerekes and Branko Lenart displayed their works in Photon Gallery. We dwell on curating and contemporary art, on the art market, on the placement of Slovenian artists and galleries, on presentations at art fairs. Again and with much enthusiasm and pride we are »back« in Berlin, among the artists creating there – publishing an interview with Matej Košir – as well as we curators, and visiting the Preview Berlin fair, where last years Kibela exhibited the works of Stefan Doepner, and where our last year's Folio was »depleted«. Announced are this year's mfru international festival of computer arts and international open code festival Kiblix in Maribor, amber 2010 arts and technology festival in Turkey, the new nature as the topic of this year's HAIP'10 festival in Ljubljana; the slippery territories of the groWorld project are introduced; we report from this year’s festival Ars Electronica in Linz.
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Časopis za sodobno umetnost, kulturo in veselje do življenja • Magazine for contemporary art, culture and the joy of life Letnik 2 (2010) • Volume 2 (2010), Maribor, Slovenia ISSN 1855-8976 Naslovnica • Cover: Matej Košir, David (Sladkor / Sugar), sladkor, kolonija mravelj, steklo, les, voda / sugar, ant colony, glass, wood, water, 140 x 40 x 40 cm Folio je vpisan v razvid medijev pod zaporedno številko 1455. • Folio magazine is entered in the mass media register under order No 1455. Folio izhaja v slovenskem in angleškem jeziku. • Folio is published in Slovenian and English language. Urednica • Editor: Snežana Štabi Uredništvo • Editorial staff: Aleksandra Kostič, Dejan Pestotnik, Maja Vuksanović Prevodi • Translation: Alenka Ropret Sodelavci • Contributors: Žiga Brdnik, Miha Colner, Petja Grafenauer, Miha Horvat, Peter Mlakar, Dejan Sluga, Maja Škerbot Fotografije • Photographs: Arhiv Kibla in avtorji • Kibla archives and authors Prelom • Layout: Samo Lajtinger Tisk • Printing: Unimedia Naklada • Print run: 8.000 izvodov • 8,000 copies Tiskano v Sloveniji. • Printed in Slovenia.
Izdajatelj časopisa • Publisher: Kulturno izobraževalno društvo KIBLA • Asssociation for Culture and Education KIBLA Zanjo • Represented by: Aleksandra Kostič, predsednica KID KIBLA • President of ACE KIBLA Copyright © 2010 ACE Kibla Photographs Copyright © Authors and ACE KIBLA Vse pravice pridržane. • All rights reserved. Finančna podpora • Supported by: Ministrstvo RS za kulturo Mestna občina Maribor
We have embarked on the ordeal with the belief that Folio features interesting and fine projects and authors. We love to have the newspaper pages dedicated to them, so that they can be read about. Also, meet our contributors who were tempted to our pages: Petja Grafenauer, Peter Mlakar, Miha Horvat, Maja Škerbot, Miha Colner, Dejan Sluga, Žiga Brdnik… hoping and wishing for continual collaboration! Snežana Štabi
As the summer saw the co-financing results, we were brought back down to earth as far as Slovenian media landscape is concerned: be commercial, be like others! Get around the issue yourself.** This is what the five-member panel for evaluating media contents told us:
* El Sueno de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters) ** Slow Media Manifesto
»Considering the explanation, this is a cosmopolitan project putting the Maribor region on the World map, yet there is no word on the book, despite the fact that
*** Tui novel from »Tui-complex« and Tui play: Turandot or the Whitewashers' Congress
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