Senescence/ liquid time capsule (EN) // Intermedia installation (sound, object, text), 2016

Senescence/ Utekočinjeni čas (SI) // Intermedijska instalacija (zvok, objekt, besedilo), 2016

Projekt s čutno potopitvijo v tišino, hlad in temo podzemnih jam obiskovalcem približa okolje, v katerem izraz »mi« ni rezerviran za ljudi. Za živa bitja v tem ekstremnem habitatu biološki čas teče počasneje kot za ljudi, medtem ko neživa narava milijone let geološkega časa beleži v milimetrih rasti. Hkratno raztezanje in krčenje časa je človeku težko doumljivo, a pronicanje vode, ki ju omogoča, in kapljanje srebrnih kapljic, ki odzvanja v tišini jam, nam dajeta slutiti, da smo vpeti v svet, ki je veliko večji od nas. Utekočinjena časovna kapsula s treh avtorskih vidikov interpretira okolje, kjer čas in prostor kljubujeta človeški zaznavi.

Robertina Šebjanič, Tea Hvala, Andreea Oarga-Mulec
Svetovanje: Slavko Glamočanin in Miha Colner

Posebna zahvala: doc. dr. Lilijana Bizjak Mali, dr. Janez Mulec, Gregor Aljančič, Slavko Glamočanin, Miha Colner, Rene Rusjan, prof. dr. Urška Lavrenčic, Akademija umetnosti Univerze v Novi Gorici, Fakulteta za znanosti o okolju Univerze v Novi Gorici, Moderna galerija, Bunker, Damijan Kracina, Franjo Drole (Inštitut za raziskovanje Krasa), Jure Pirih, mojster steklopihaštva Peter Kolobarič.

Projekt je nastal s podporo Ministrstva za kulturo Republike Slovenije.

Podzemlje je tretji del zgodbe o vélikem blatarju in prispevek pisateljice Tea Hvala k intermedijski instalaciji Senescence: utekočinjeni čas. S soavtoricama, Robertino Šebjanič, ki je sodelovanje spodbudila, in speleologinjo Andreeo Oarga Mulec iz Laboratorija za raziskave v okolju Univerze v Novi Gorici jo predstavljam na 17. festivalu Pixxelpoint: http://prepih.blogspot.si/2016/12/kratka-zgodba-podzemlje.html

The project immerses visitors in the silence, coldness, and darkness of underground caves, bringing them closer to an environment in which the term “we” is not reserved exclusively for humans. For living beings inhabiting this extreme habitat, biological time passes more slowly than it does for humans, while the non-living world records millions of years of geological time through millimetres of growth. The simultaneous expansion and contraction of time is difficult for humans to comprehend; yet the seepage of water that enables these processes, and the dripping of silver droplets echoing through the silence of caves, offer a glimpse that we are embedded in a world far greater than ourselves.

A liquefied time capsule, interpreted through three artistic perspectives, explores an environment where time and space defy human perception.

Robertina Šebjanič, Tea Hvala, Andreea Oarga-Mulec
Consultation: Slavko Glamočanin and Miha Colner

Special thanks: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lilijana Bizjak Mali, Dr. Janez Mulec, Gregor Aljančič, Slavko Glamočanin, Miha Colner, Rene Rusjan, Prof. Dr. Urška Lavrenčič, the School of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica, the School of Environmental Sciences of the University of Nova Gorica, Moderna galerija, Bunker, Damijan Kracina, Franjo Drole (Karst Research Institute), Jure Pirih, and master glassblower Peter Kolobarič.

The project was created with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

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Underworld is the third part of the story of the Great Mud-dweller and the contribution of writer Tea Hvala to the intermedia installation Senescence: Liquefied Time. Together with co-authors Robertina Šebjanič, who initiated the collaboration, and speleologist Andreea Oarga-Mulec from the Environmental Research Laboratory at the University of Nova Gorica, I present the work at the 17th Pixxelpoint Festival:

http://prepih.blogspot.si/2016/12/kratka-zgodba-podzemlje.html