WHOLE CONTENT (together with Sergio Valenzuela Valdés)
darkoandsergio.blogspot.com/
(ongoing)
Context:
The project that Sergio Valenzuela and Darko Aleksovski are starting to develop is a continuation from their previous collaboration within the context of Suzana Milevska's Art History of South East Europe course at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, namely a project entitled as Pen-Pal.
Their artistic collaboration started as a research in institutional critique and its new possibilities, while reflecting on their personal and professional encounters with their specific artistic contexts. So, both artists developed separate performative actions, one in Vienna, Austria and the second on in Veles, Macedonia. Both actions reflected on the lack of institutional support in contemporary art, the presence/absence of the audience, the lack of production funding and the constant struggle to show your work. Besides the two actions, the artists created a video that in a very ironic and mocking way presents 7 tips on how to become a successful artist today.
The Project:
The box as the object that contains everything that the artists will put and send during the research, is also an object that simulates a white cube space, namely it is build in the exact scaled proportions of the gallery in which the final exhibition and opening will take place. Inevitably, the box will eventually become an object of the artists everyday life and practice, and will touch some aspects of the artists’ own previous work. In order to be more efficient in the creative and collaborative process, the artists also set a rules of restrictions of what can / can’t go inside the box. The general idea is that the artists will send the box multiple times between Vienna and Veles, during which time both artists without prior consent and knowledge are putting objects in this box, thus filling it with some kind of meaning and the box operating as a gallery space in which the artists do not know what the other one has put inside, so at the exhibition opening and when the box is opened it would be a kind of surprise for everyone.
darkoandsergio.blogspot.com/
(ongoing)
Context:
The project that Sergio Valenzuela and Darko Aleksovski are starting to develop is a continuation from their previous collaboration within the context of Suzana Milevska's Art History of South East Europe course at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, namely a project entitled as Pen-Pal.
Their artistic collaboration started as a research in institutional critique and its new possibilities, while reflecting on their personal and professional encounters with their specific artistic contexts. So, both artists developed separate performative actions, one in Vienna, Austria and the second on in Veles, Macedonia. Both actions reflected on the lack of institutional support in contemporary art, the presence/absence of the audience, the lack of production funding and the constant struggle to show your work. Besides the two actions, the artists created a video that in a very ironic and mocking way presents 7 tips on how to become a successful artist today.
The Project:
The box as the object that contains everything that the artists will put and send during the research, is also an object that simulates a white cube space, namely it is build in the exact scaled proportions of the gallery in which the final exhibition and opening will take place. Inevitably, the box will eventually become an object of the artists everyday life and practice, and will touch some aspects of the artists’ own previous work. In order to be more efficient in the creative and collaborative process, the artists also set a rules of restrictions of what can / can’t go inside the box. The general idea is that the artists will send the box multiple times between Vienna and Veles, during which time both artists without prior consent and knowledge are putting objects in this box, thus filling it with some kind of meaning and the box operating as a gallery space in which the artists do not know what the other one has put inside, so at the exhibition opening and when the box is opened it would be a kind of surprise for everyone.
ONE HOUR TOGETHER - VIENNA
Sergio Valenzuela Valdés & Darko Aleksovski
The project One Hour Together, or rather a series of actions we are starting, is an attempt to address these complex institutional and production issues that all subjects within the art world face at some point - we know how art production works with money, but this time we want to see how it works with only € 2.10. We took a public transportation ticket as the lowest amount of money for any social action, meaning that even for the simplest of things, people use transportation to get from one place to another.
Sergio Valenzuela Valdés & Darko Aleksovski
The project One Hour Together, or rather a series of actions we are starting, is an attempt to address these complex institutional and production issues that all subjects within the art world face at some point - we know how art production works with money, but this time we want to see how it works with only € 2.10. We took a public transportation ticket as the lowest amount of money for any social action, meaning that even for the simplest of things, people use transportation to get from one place to another.
ONE HOUR ALONE - VELES
Sergio Valenzuela Valdés & Darko Aleksovski
The project by Sergio Valenzuela and Darko Aleksovski is developed from some questions and reflections about the art system, not-yet ready made and institutional critique. One hour together revolves around the non-public space and self-gallery concepts. How we try to imagine the institutions without sources and foundations, or how institutions are build up as art markets or curated under funded projects only. Having no possibilities for artists to show new ideas and curate non-funded projects in non-art spaces, is pushing us to make a second part of One hour together in Vienna, as a One one Alone in Macedonia.
The contexts between Vienna and Veles are completely different and also the laws are more restricted. There is no access to public spaces in order to share an art project as a public experience; as a part of the institutional limits about rights and accessibility in Macedonia. No guest list and no drinks would be involved in the situation imagined as a trip by public transport, while making a small and almost non perceptible action during one hour by Darlo Aleksovski.
Sergio Valenzuela Valdés & Darko Aleksovski
The project by Sergio Valenzuela and Darko Aleksovski is developed from some questions and reflections about the art system, not-yet ready made and institutional critique. One hour together revolves around the non-public space and self-gallery concepts. How we try to imagine the institutions without sources and foundations, or how institutions are build up as art markets or curated under funded projects only. Having no possibilities for artists to show new ideas and curate non-funded projects in non-art spaces, is pushing us to make a second part of One hour together in Vienna, as a One one Alone in Macedonia.
The contexts between Vienna and Veles are completely different and also the laws are more restricted. There is no access to public spaces in order to share an art project as a public experience; as a part of the institutional limits about rights and accessibility in Macedonia. No guest list and no drinks would be involved in the situation imagined as a trip by public transport, while making a small and almost non perceptible action during one hour by Darlo Aleksovski.
