lokacija:	galerija 10m2, Sarajevo
trajanje:	od 25.10.2007 do 11.11.2007.
radno vrijeme:	Od 14.00 do 19.00 (četvrtak - subota)

THE BOX Video installation, 6.20 min - loop, 2005 Computer programming by Rado Miklavcic
The Box is a video installation composed of a rubber box, an LCD monitor, and a pneumatic mechanism. The mechanism is placed inside the rubber box. It is manipulated by a computer program and synchronized with a prerecorded video. The video on the screen shows the two of us trapped inside the box, trying to escape to the outside. The main focus of the installation is detachment, the possibility to exist outside prevailing systems. Our attempt to escape is a reference to an escape from an all encompassing media world as well as an escape from the white cube. On one hand the possibility to detach oneself from today's media and information network has become a pure privilege, which not everyone is able to afford. And as far as contemporary art network is concerned, detachment from its reference institutions, as its critique, means an ultimate isolation of the author.
Technical requirements:PC, LCD monitor, specially designed software, pneumatic mechanism, compressor, rubber box

WE DID THIS AND THAT Series of C-prints, 75 x 101 cm, 2005-2006
We Did This and That is a series of photos, which show the two of us in reconstructing Guinness World Records. We chose absurd records, which are not based on physical strength or stamina , but rather on the uncommonness of ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, a strategy which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass communication media, as well as an analogue to contemporary art, where shock and innovation at any price play an important role in recognition of the artist and his work. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society which produces and possesses an excess of everything, as it can be seen in MTV series Jackass and Wildboyz.

Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak

Nika Oblak, born 1975, graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2002. In the 2000-2001 academic year she was a guest student in the class of Prof. K. Sieverding at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin.
In 2005, she received her M.F.A. in video from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
Since 2002 she works in an artists cooperative with Primoz Novak.
Primoz Novak, born 1973, graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2002. In the 2000-2001 academic year he was a guest student in the class of Prof. K. Sieverding at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin. In 2006, he received his M.F.A. in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Since 2002 he works in an artists cooperative with Nika Oblak.

Group exhibitions and festivals:

2007, Transmediale - Festival for Art and Media Culture, Living in a Box, Galerie Zero, Berlin, Germany
2006, U3 - Triennial of contemporary Slovenian art, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006, Device Art, Blasthaus Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2006, VAD - Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spain
2006, Device Art, Galzenica Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2006, The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill , USA
2006, Open Studio Exhibition, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
2006, OHO Award Finalists Exhibition, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006, It's Playtime, Contemporary Art Gallery, Celje, Slovenia
2006, Outliners, ArtTransponder e.V. Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2005, Prospectif Cinema 2004 - 2005, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2005, Stories from the Neighborhood, Rael Artel Gallery, Parnu, Estonia
2005, Stories from the Neighborhood, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2005, MTV Free Your Mind Arena, Exit Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia and Monte Negro
2005, The Third International Film and Video Festival, MONA, Detroit, USA
2005, 2.m, Galerija Miklova Hisa, Ribnica, Slovenia
2004, La Isle Videos Incrives 04, Teatro Odisseia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2004, 24 FPS, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004, 2.m, Galerija Miklova Hisa, Ribnica, Slovenia
2004, The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia and Monte Negro
2004, Production, ESC, Graz, Austria
2004, 10th International Festival of Computer Arts, Razstavni Salon Rotovz, Maribor, Slovenia
2004, Idea - non - Realization, Narodni Muzej Kraljevo, Kraljevo, Serbia and Monte Negro
2004, Idea - non - Realization, Galerija Remont, Beograd, Serbia and Monte Negro
2003, 25hrs International Art Show, Barcelona, Spain
2003, Hertzoscopio - Experimental and Transdisciplinary Arts Festival, Lugar Comum, Barcarena, Portugal
2003, Trampoline, Plattform for New Media Art, Volksbuehne, Berlin, Germany
2003, Media Art Festival Friesland, St. Jacobiparochie, Netherlands
2003, 2nd Detroit International Video Festival, MONA Detroit, USA
2003, VAD 2003, Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spain
2003, Visura Aperta Momiano 03, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
2003, Friendly Fire, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2003, Visura Aperta Momiano 03, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
2003, Idea - non - Realization, Gradska galerija Pozega, Pozega, Serbia and Montenegro
2003, FONA, Festival of New Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2003, 2nd Kansk International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia
2003, Art Words, Galerie Berliner Kunstprojekt, Berlin, Germany
2003, Festival of Visual and Audio Media, Momjan, Croatia
2003, 9th International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor, Slovenia
2003, Start, Galerija Karas, Zagreb, Croatia 2003, Interventions
2003, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
2002, M Shock Society, Finzgarjeva Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002, Start, Mestna galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia

Solo exhibitions:

2005, Teamwork, Galerija Alkatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005, Rhythmic, Vocalized, Expiratory and Involuntarily Actions, Likovni salon Celje, Celje, Slovenia
2005, Rhythmic, Vocalized, Expiratory and Involuntarily Actions, Galerija Remont, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2004, And Now for Something Completely Different, Galerija P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004, Bank Robbery, Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, Slovenia Grants and awards
2007, Artist in Residence, Flaxart Studios, Belfast, Ireland
2006, OHO Award Finalist, Gallery P74, Ljubljan , Slovenia
2005, Artist in Residence, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
2003, 2nd Prize, Idea - non - Realization, Gradska galerija Pozega, Pozega, Serbia and Monte Negro
2003 - 2005, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia Graduate Studies Grant (Primoz Novak)
2003, Workshop, Festival of Visual and Audio Media, Momjan, Croatia
2002 - 2004, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia Graduate Studies Grant (Nika Oblak)