Reality
Intermedia/Light Art/festival/2021
Program
http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/en/lighting-guerrilla-reality/
This year’s projects were inspired by reality, the theme of this year’s festival.
The reality that surrounds us carries a multitude of different aspects
that people experience very subjectively. The theme of the festival
attempts to highlight the deceptiveness and elusiveness of reality as
it often depends on our senses and perception, and to emphasize, on
the other hand, some key issues that shape the contemporary experience
of reality and consequently indicate our future too. The coordinates of
reality are formed in the human brain through our senses – they are a
controlled construct that is based on our perception which can be
manipulated too. The participating artists reacted to the dissection of
reality in different ways: among the outstanding thematic emphases there
are, for example, themes of ecology and concern for the fate of this planet
and of the human race, often revealed in highly dystopian and sometimes
even resigned tones. The reality of many people has been strongly marked
by the epidemic and socio-political changes that are being introduced under
its auspices in the local context by the current government too. The growing
authoritarianism of the authorities in conjunction with modern technologies
of mass control and the pitfalls of social media is causing discomfort that is
quite strongly felt by many contemporary artists. The key question here thus
lies in the dilemma: what is real(ity) after all and what’s merely manipulation
or propaganda
Credits:
Production: Strip Core / Forum Ljubljana
Curators: Katerina Mirović, Marko Vivoda
Emabassy: Aleksandra Stratimirović, Nika Perne
Captain of tehnikal division: Borut Cajnko