SLAVICA CEPERKOVIC

Below are a selected portfolio of projects. For complete CV, and project treatments please email. A concise list of reviews and articles can be downloaded here.

Sputnik 2007

Aerospace Museum, Toronto

In celebration of space flight in collaboration with the Canadian Space Society, held at the Toronto Aerospace Museum, "Sputnik" is a short film loop created for the 50th anniverary of Sputnik an event produced by Critical Media.

 

Nape 2002; Dual sided interactive installation

Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains

Video documenation

In “Nape” the viewer is confronted with a cross section of the throat of a female giant. The viewer sees a twisted neck, a pale completion, and pink lips that speaks with white breath. Her breath explains that she is cold, and that the space is cold. As viewer passes behind the screen, the air on the nape of her neck are amplified, gently swaying the figure's hair and moves in relation to where the viewer is in the space. As more viewers gather the movement of the hair blows between the viewers creating a relationship between viewers in the space and to the body of the mythic figure.

Presented:

Centre Culturel Du Mans, France, January 2003
Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, June 2002; Premiere

Articles:

Figaro Newspaper 2002, Article by Michel Nuridsany

Beaux Arts Magazine, 2002

Panorama Catalogue 2002; Pages 1, 2, 3

Ville Blanche, 2003
DVD Produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains

Video documenation

Ville Blanche, explores language and its ability to transform an environment. The scene takes place in front of the cityscape of Belgrade, a city that has been rebuilt 38 times in its history. A woman invites the viewer to speak, constructing a the gallery into a listening space. Waiting she starts to speak of the meaning of the name Belgrade (white city) and compares it to a puzzle she created. As she speaks, snow begins to fall on her and the city, building and piling until the screen goes to white.

Presented:

Grand Palais, Paris, France; December 2008

Loop Gallery, Barcelona Spain; May 2008

Palais de Beaux Arts de Lille “Territories d’image”, Paris France; October 2007

Locust Projects, “Get Lost” Exhibition, Miami USA; December 2007;

Masion Du Geste et de l’image Paris France, April 2006

Arte Television, France, Broadcast July 2005

Le Cube, Paris France , May 2005

Le Cadre du dipositive EROA, Lille France, May 2005

Curzon Cinema, London England, November 2004

Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, October 2004

Artronica Festival, International Electronic Arts Salon, Bogota Colombia, September 2004

Miami Lights Gallery, Miami USA. March 2004

Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse France, February 2004

Mediaschool Festival, Lodz, Poland, October 2003 , Short-listed for best short film

Le Fresnoy Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, Lille France, June 2003. Premiere

Articles:

ACAD Faculty Profile Article, 2003

Lille Newspaper, 2003

Panorama Catalogue, Article By Anne Tronche, 2003 Page 1, 2, 3

Melt, 2002, in collaboration with Nicholas Stedman Telematic Interactive Installation Video documenation Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing France/ The Banff Center, Banff Alberta  Melt transforms the gesture of touch to heat that can felt half way around the world. A table with embedded sensors registers the touch of the gallery visters in France, simultaneously it is transferred and translated through the Internet and activates heat sensors embedded in a block of ice in Canada. The ice traces the presence of the visitors through melting and refreezing. The image of the ice melting can be seen with a live web stream projected in the space in France so the visiter can see their impact. Articles: Eyebeam reblog Turbulance Blog Nural.it

Weep Public Sound Installation Commission Location: Brugge Cultural Center, June 14, 2002 - August 31, 2002 .wav festival Brugge, Cultural Captial of Europe 2002 At the base of the weeping willow situated by the canal, tables fill the coffee shop terrace of the cultural center, over looking a growing line up of tourists waiting by the dock for their boat cruise tour of Brugge. Using the two wood tables next to the tree as speakers, a couple is heard discussing a story of the weeping willow. The couple comment on the extent to which she cries, how lonely she is and how tourists gaze at her just to pass and simply float on her tears for a better view of other things. They discuss how her out reached arms touch the water, as the tourists sit huddled together in the line up and in boats, and how in summer she goes green with envy. The extent of the conversation from tactile table is about 5 to 10 minutes and plays every hour.

Threaded White, 1999 Interactive Video Installation Video documenation As viewers first enter the gallery, they notice a blank white projection. On a closer inspection of the projection, a knife appears and slowly begins to dissect the screen from behind. The closer the viewer goes to the screen, the deeper and higher the cut. As the viewer leaves the gallery, the screen begins to stitch itself up, reconstructing the hole made by the viewer. If the viewer sees this, and returns to the screen, the seam begins to unravel. If the viewer does not act, there is no image and the screen will disapper back to white. Presention and Articles: Passage De Retz, Paris France, September 2002 Catalogue Horizon Zero: Invent issue; Synthetic Sensualism InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, June 1999