Bloom
3.9.2022
at Kino Šiška
In the summer months, JAŠA was at work on a new project, BLOOM, which is a commemoration of his work in the last decade. BLOOM consists of several segments with its climax culminating on September 3 at Kino Šiška. There, JAŠA populated the entire venue with live events. The program will include dramaturgically related performances, installations and musical performances. Ahead of the event, JAŠA adapted the venue through various artistic interventions, thus enabling visitors to fully immerse themselves in his work.
Most of the content from international projects JAŠA has realized in different parts of the world. At Kino Šiška, re-enacted elements from past works, characterized by interdisciplinary experimentation with techniques and media, were placed in new interactions, developed with new content, and assembled into a cohesive and complex symbolic order, subject to the demanding technical placement of static and kinetic elements. Each element of this structure can be thought of as an independent work within the framework of a particular medium or genre, and their interaction and intersection create a situation of uniqueness and unrepeatability in relation to time and space.
KATEDRALA HALL
10.00–11.00 intro
11.00–14.00 Making It, final individual presentations by participants in the international workshop
14.00–16.00 Walk-in installation BLOOM1
16.00–17.00 B.side Utter Main Session – Junzi Live
17.00–20.00 Walk-in installation BLOOM2
20.00–21.00 BLOOM side A – concert – KALU & JAŠA
21.30–22.00 BLOOM side B – concert – Bowrain
KOMUNA HALL
11.00–14.00 Walk-in installation BLOOM3
14.00–15.00 B.side Utter warm up Session - Junzi Live
15.00–16.30 Bloom - original score
16.30–18.00 Walk-in installation BLOOM4
18.00–19.00 Debris - Live JAŠA
19.00–20.00 Walk-in installation BLOOM5
23.00–00.00 Walk-in installation BLOOM6
00.00–02.00 After DJ sets
UPPER LOBBY
11.00–20.00 DEBRIS live sessions (Mario Babojelić & JAŠA)
TERRACE – UNNAME
11.00–12.00 individual performances and situations UNNAME
14.00–15.00 individual performances and situations UNNAME
16.00–17.00 group performances and situations UNNAME
PRODUCERS
Agencija Glasilka, We.are Institute
PARTNERS
CUK Kino Šiška, KiD Pina, Kamizdat, ŠKUC
SUPPORTERS
City of Ljubljana, Triglav
Triglav Insurance
Project segments:
BLOOM album release
JAŠA has always included sound and music in his multimedia projects as an integral part of the overall experience of a work of art. In doing so, he mainly collaborates with the excellent musicians KALU (Luka Uršič) and Bowrain (Tine Grgurevič). A selection of songs and sound installations from this decade-long and extremely fruitful collaboration was published as a new complete album by the Kamizdat label on 24 June in the form of an art book with a USB stick.
The album is a synthesis of ten years of collaboration and association with various artists. It is the fruit of a creative process in which each of those involved faced overcoming their own limitations. An eclectic, polystylistic album was created as a result. Through its sound and music, originally created for art projects, it represents an independent, complete whole, on which loud and intimate tones, instrumental and vocal pieces coexist. -JAŠA
UNNAME
15. 8.–30. 9. 2022, public spatial installation, Kino Šiška
In front of the Kino Šiška building, where the main event of the project will take place, JAŠA will set up the UNNAME public installation in early August.
UNNAME is the absence of a monument. What we see is merely its structure. This represents the effort of the collective, which is the driver of social progress. The binder of this load-bearing construction is constructive dialogue. The emptiness reverses the perspective and thus the load-bearing structure becomes a monument and a tribute to the unstoppable force of collective action. -JAŠA
Making It: The Artist's Survival Workshop
21. 8.–3. 9., international workshop, Kino Šiška
As part of the project, JAŠA will lead an international workshop for young artists from all over Europe. The workshop is based on the manual Making It: The Artist's Survival Guide, which he published with Pulitzer Prize finalist Noah Charney in 2021 via the American publishing house, Rowman & Littlefield. After intensive collective and individual work, the participants will be involved in the final event, the BLOOM project at Kino Šiška, where they will present their work to the public.
"Making It: The Artist Survival Guide is a book every true artist cannot but love. It is, of course, impossible to condense the complex process of creativity into the form of 'making it' guides which provide ready-made formulas for success, love life, getting friends, etc. – but for this very reason one should do it. This book gives you the freedom to follow its proposals or to mock them – to mock the rules, the rules should be there. If you do not need a 'making it' guide for your work, you are not an original creative genius, you are an idiot." -Slavoj Žižek
