Svetlobna gverila - Re:akcija / Lighting guerrilla: Re:action


workshop, installations, objects 17 May 2014 Lighting Guerrilla Laboratory 22.-31. May 2014 Lighting Guerilla @ Red Beats festival, Hrastnik OPENING: Thursday, 22 May 2014, 9 pm, in front of Delavski Dom Hrastnik	Although the Lighting Guerrilla festival is permanently based in Ljubljana, it likes to take advantage of escaping the unbearable swampy stuffiness. Discovering and inhabiting new places with light is also a mission of the festival attempting to outline different perspectives of cityscapes by means of art in public space. This time, the incentive for the event came from coal mining town of Hrastnik in the Zasavje region. And so, for several nights, the Lighting Guerrilla will brighten up the town hand in hand with the Red Beats! Festival. The Lighting Guerrilla explores and exposes the role of light in art, and it prefers to employ public urban spaces accessible to everybody (streets, squares, shop windows, playgrounds, facades, parks). The city is a living organism. One of the main prerequisites for its liveliness, however, is a constant infusion of high-pressure contents and practices, which transform the city into a creative testing ground, a space of playful imagination opening possibilities for diverse viewpoints and fresh uses of everything that is normally and self-evidently blurred into dull everyday imperceptibility.	With their universal and apparent vocabulary of light, these installations and objects draw new coordinates of the city tissue and address its inhabitants. The Lighting Guerrilla explores the attractiveness of light, enlivening and cheering up spaces by investing their functional value with aesthetic elements. It stimulates the reflection on the mission of art, as well as on the artist's role in the public space facing continual narrowing and overall degradation. Last but not least, the Lighting Guerrilla thus also points to the role and responsibility of Everyman in providing the quality life in his/her surroundings. On view in Hrastnik will be a dozen of installations by Slovene artists, as well as two works by the Serbian-Swedish artist and co-founder of the festival, Aleksandra Stratimirović. Abandoned shop windows and windows, deserted mineshafts, as well as parks and streets will emit new light/life. Welcome to the exploration!
	1. Delavski Dom Entrance Hall – Tilen Sepič: Clouds Clouds will be created during a workshop and exhibited in Hrastnik and Ljubljana. 8. Green nearby the Market – Marjeta Zupančič: Secret Garden The ambient installation is based on the play of light and reflections dancing on the neighbouring architecture and changing it into a dreamlike image.	3. Passage between Delavski Dom and DURS Hrastnik – Aleksandra Stratimirović: V.I.P. When you step into the white circle of light you find yourself in the epicentre of attention and become a star in the limelight.
2. Pavement in front of Delavski Dom – Andrej Štular: Center ZA Spatial installation of small lighting objects. With their lustre, warmth and homeliness they invite us to look at them, to touch them, or even to inhabit them. On view only until 25 May. *4. Platform in front of the CIKCAK shop – Kaja Avberšek & Darja Osojnik: ShinenFly* The hennish lighting swing awakes only in the dark, but it is kind to the curious also during the daytime. With a careful use you can attain vertiginous pleasure.	5. Park between Log 12 and Log 7 apartment buildings – Marko Crnobrnja: Trap for Readers Since books cannot survive without readers – who are becoming more and more rare and precious – Crnobrnja decided to offer assistance to them: he invented a special device for every book to trap its individual reader. 6. Shop window of the Titanik building, Log 10 – Andrej Štular: Family Family is a series of lighting paintings that create a unique social topography. The artist explores images of faces from different cultures. The multi-layered paintings-objects are like copies from his sketchbook.	7. Park behind the Log 3 apartment building – Marko A. Kovačič & Brane Ždralo: Fata Morgana A palm tree in the centre of Hrastnik? Fata Morgana? Yes and no. The lighting palms by Kovačič and Ždralo protect you against sun during the day, while at night they shed light on your book. You are invited to join the night reading of literature in the public space.
9. Building above the market – Aleksandra Stratimirović: Kind Spirits What happens when kind spirits – the imperceptible and quiet apparitions always eager to help – inhabit a building?	10. Shop window facing the Youth Centre – Chair of Textile and Fashion Design, FNT, University of Ljubljana: A Place under the Sun Already during their studies, the creators Klementina Kranvogel and Ana Jelinič changed the private for the public: before winter, they closed the leaves from the nearby park into a building. Lighted by the UV light, the leaves warn us that winter is coming after every summer.	11. In the stream in front of Youth Center – Academy of Fine Arts and Design: Bright Talk Artists: Dan Adlešič, Uršula Rihtar, Katarina Muller, Anja Radovič, Katja Špiler. Mentor: Boštjan Drinovec Bright Talk is an ambience installation, a dynamic revival of the mineshaft with light and sound. It is a kind of equalising lighting system which enables the visitors to 'light' their voice by means of a microphone.
PRODUCTION: Strip Core / Forum Ljubljana and Vitkar Institute// Curators: Katerina Mirović, Matjaž Brulc // Captain of technical division: Borut Cajnko // Technical division: Matjaž Brulc, Borut Bučinel, Marko Kociper, Grega Mohorčič, Miha Zupan //	Photo: DK // Translation: Borut Cajnko // Co-producers: Ministry of Culture, RS; Municipality of Hrastnik //	Special thanks: Municipality of Hrastnik, KRC Hrastnik, Trbovlje Hrastnik Mine, Senad Burzić, Youth Centre Hrastnik //