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Acting as Aliens – Ex Post
Below you can find some links (reviews, documentation, etc.) regarding the show Gazira Babeli – Acting as Aliens (Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana) and the related seminar.
About the seminar:
- Images by Frieda Korda, Roxelo Babenco, Helfe Ihnen on Flickr.
- An ongoing discussion on the Odyssey Ning.
- A video by Helfe Ihnen on Youtube.
About the show:
- Gazira Babeli’s archive page
- A video interview on VEST.SI (Italian, sub Slovenian)
- A TV feature on TVSLO.SI (Slovenian, starting from min. 47.06)
- The opening performance on TVSLO.SI (Slovenian, starting from min. 04.45)
- “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”. A review by Flaminio Gualdoni.
- “Aliena e maga l’artista di oggi“. A review by Agnese Trocchi in Stile.it, 27.10.09.
- “Umetnost v virtualnosti“. A review by Ida Hiršenfelder, published in Dnevnik, 04.11.09.
- Some pics of the performance from the natives’ point of view on the Second Front blog.
- And some raw footage by me on my Youtube account:
Can We Understand Avatars, or One Another, for That Matter?
On Tuesday, the legendary Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana will host Acting as Aliens, a new exhibition by Gazira Babeli. The core of the exhibition will be a performance, revolving around the issue of communication between people and avatars, homo sapiens and homo virtualis. This text by Patrick Lichty, Gazira’s friend, comrade and collaborator, is a smart take on the upcoming performance.
Gazira Babeli: ACTING AS ALIENS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gazira Babeli: ACTING AS ALIENS
Exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta
Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 3 – 15, 2009
Opening and performance: November 3, 9.00 PM (CET)
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art and Kapelica gallery are proud to announce “Gazira Babeli: Acting as Aliens”, the first solo exhibition of the avatar artist Gazira Babeli in Slovenia. Internationally renowned for her activity in the digital reality of Second Life, Gazira Babeli is born there in spring 2006. She is a character in the Matrix, something in between the Oracle and Neo. What she does has been either dubbed as bug, virus, performance or art; what we can say about it is that it subverts the traditional notions of space, time, body, identity and behavior we inherited from our daily experience.
The show borrows its name from the opening performance, in which Gazira and the audience will share the same space and will play through material means, in an unprecedented overlap between digital reality and physical reality. The remains of the performance will be put on show after the event. Read the rest of this entry »
