• 27.04.2012. - 27.05.2012.

    Yugoslavian youth press as underground press: 1968 - 1972 (Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana)

    The exhibition titled Yugoslavian youth press as underground press (1968-1972; Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana) deals with the unique journalistic genre developed in socialist Yugoslavia. Youth press denotes a number of publications issued by a network of youth and student organisations. Originally set up as a part of the Soviet propaganda machine, by the end of the 1960s the youth press had, in its Yugoslavian adaptation, developed certain particularities. This exhibition will focus on one aspect of those particularities – more precisely, its considerable similarities with so-called American and British underground magazines from the same period. The exhibition also points to many unexpected overlaps (in formation, content and politics) in these two genres created in, ideologically, strikingly different contexts. The display is comprised of a wealth of hard-to-find, archival material: quality reproductions of original youth and student magazines from Zagreb, Belgrade and Ljubljana, along with some exemplary issues of American and British underground magazines.

    Author of the exhibition: Marko Zubak

    Exhibition supported by: the City of Velika Gorica and the Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia.

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  • 11.03.2012. - 01.04.2012.

    Textil{e}tronics - Yarn bombing in Velika Gorica

    In line with our announcement of several knit graffiti, guerilla knitting and yarn bombing events in the public spaces of Velika Gorica, as part of the Textil{e}tronics exhibition, we are proud to say that the first knit-crochet tagging took place in the afternoon of Mach 11. The participants of the first yarn attack on Velika Gorica were: Ana Dadić a.k.a. štrikAna, Vana Gaćina, Ivana Ivković, Maja Kalogera and Marijana Rimanić.

    Guerilla knitting, yarn bombing, and knit graffiti directions of knitting and crocheting were started by American textile artist Magda Sayeg because of her frustration with the huge amount of her unfinished knitting projects. Guerilla knitting is inspired by graffiti culture, hip hop and street art, as well as the desire to soften the vocabulary of the aforementioned urban cultures. In 2005 Magda Sayeg knitted around her first public-space object in front of her boutique, instigating the founding of Knitta Please group. Since then she has been travelling regularly, taking up invitations from various cultural institutions and tagging the architecture in capitals worldwide. As for the movement of guerilla knitting & yarn bombing, it has been spreading to the public spaces of the world through the contributions of countless anonymous guerrilla knitters.

    Guerrilla knitters: Una Bauer, Ana Dadić a.k.a. štrikAna, Vana
    Gaćina, Ivana Ivković, Antonija Letinić, Maja Kalogera, Marijana
    Rimanić, Maša Žarnić

    Funds for the 2012 exhibition programme were provided by the City of Velika Gorica, Zagreb county and The  Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia.

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  • 02.03.2012. - 01.04.2012.

    Textil{e}tronics

    Anda Klančić, Patrizia Dona, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Josipa Štefanec

    ‘Let’s now delve deep into the fluff’
    Massimo Banzi, Getting Started with Arduino

    Following the development of a simple thread into complex new media objects, the exhibition will touch upon recent developments in the areas of wearable technology and electronic sculpting through lumino light objects and the presentation of Arduino microcontrollers.

    Dealing with sculptural textile (J. Štefanec) and electronic thread (A. Klančić), designed substance and new meanings of objects (P. Dona), as well as socially responsible textile art (M. M. Pungerčar), the exhibition presents an overview of contemporary new media directions and questions the meaning of the medium as such. The social and emacipatory aspects of textile arts are clear - they invoke thoughts of industrial manufacturing, DIY subculture and self-sustained systems, especially in relation to recent similar developments in the fields of open source and wearable technology (Arduino, Body Pixel Studio).

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