Artist at Work: Proximity of Art and Capitalism

In her new book, Bojana Kunst analyzes the performance Ballettikka Internettikka: Stattikka by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman:

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Bojana Kunst: Artist at Work — Proximity of Art and Capitalism
(Chapter 4: Movement, Duration and Post-Fordism)
Zero Books, August 2015
John Hunt Publishing, Winchester, UK / Washington, USA

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Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman:
Ballettikka Internettikka: Stattikka, Hong Kong / Dresden, 2007

Ballettikka Internettikka at MSUM

The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
[Moderna galerija Ljubljana]

Exhibition: The Present and Presence – Repetition 1
Opening: 17 April 2012, 8 pm

MSUM: Special Projects
Complementing the repeated exhibition are five special projects. One of them is An Archive of Performance Art, curated by Blaž Lukan.
Ballettikka Internettikka (2001-2011) by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman is exhibited in the frame of An Archive of Performance Art.
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Ballettikka Internettikka / Lichtungen

Lichtungen – Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst, Kultur und Zeitkritik
Graz, Austria

Heft 129/2012, March 2012:
Ballettikka Internettikka by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman

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BI Antarcttikka – A1

Ballettikka Internettikka: Antarcttikka [Preparations]

The ultimate Ballettikka Internettikka
by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman

November 2011
www.intima.org/bi/a
[10 years: 2001-2011]

Official proposal for the Ballettikka Internettikka Antarcttikka Mission Patch.


Our robot spent the whole night (12 hours) in a small freezing compartment (set on -17°C) of the refrigerator – and survived!


Testing our robot in a refrigerator.

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+ Recent/updated info/studies on preparations: Facebook Photo Album

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Ballettikka Internettikka in Skopje

“Love Without Mercy”
Public presentation / Artist talk

Saturday, 11 December 2010 at 8 pm
Venue: Cultural Center CK, Skopje

Presenting the project Ballettikka Internettikka (2001-2011) by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman.

In collaboration with Kontrapunkt, Skopje; deschooling.classroom(o^o) and TkH – Centre for Performing Arts Theory and Practice, Belgrade.

“We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
(W. Churchill)

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Ballettikka Internettikka SubAquattikka

Ballettikka Internettikka SubAquattikka
Authors and Performers: Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman

Thursday, 23 September 2010
From 11 AM to 6 PM at Ljubljana ZOO, Slovenia (focus from 3 PM to 5 PM)

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BI SubAquattikka Tests

Ballettikka Internettikka SubAquattikka
Tests by Igor Štromajer & Brane Zorman
Intima / Cona, September 2010

Testing a 7 cm (3 inch) long, radio controlled submarine. Excellent maneuvering capabilities!

(Photo: !gor. Š.) / Flickr Album

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PERFORMMIKKA INTERNETTIKKA

PERFORMANCE
PERFORMMIKKA INTERNETTIKKA

nimk.nl/eng/calendar/performmikka-internettikka

29 May 2010

The Netherlands Media Art Institute / Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)

doors open 20:00, program begins 20:30
Entrance 5,- (students 3,50)
Please make reservations

An evening with internet/teleperformances by Annie Abrahams, Christophe Bruno, Constant Dullaart, Igor Stromajer and Brane Zorman, focused on the relations between contemporary performance practice and the internet.

With performances by:
Annie Abrahams, Huis Clos : No Exit – On Translation (20:00)
Christophe Bruno, Human Browser
Constant Dullaart, Arranged online moments
Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman, Ballettikka Internettikka Insecttikka (22:00)

Performmikka Internettikka focuses on recent new possibilities surrounding tele- or internet performance. With the increased speed of internet connections in recent years and the omnipresence of the net, it has not only provided these media artists with inspiration, but also with a platform and a medium. In their work the participating artists respond in various ways to the technical possibilities and limitations of the internet, and to the implications the medium has for content. How does a simultaneous and collective performance being carried out at different places around the world look? What does the delay and distance contribute to the chances and limitations? How does an audience deal with viewing a live ‘event’ with illegal recorded images that are being made at that moment somewhere else in the world? In addition, the artists respond with irony to the Internet as a source of entertainment, and as a capitalist instrument. In short, what does the internet contribute to contemporary performance art practice in terms of inspiration, mediation and as a platform?

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Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Ballettikka Internettikka (Internet Ballet / Aeronauttikka by Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman) on the cover of Pasatiempo – The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment and Culture, March 12-18, 2010 (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

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