IGOR ŠTROMAJER + BRANE ZORMAN: BALLETTIKKA INTERNETTIKKA
Medmrežni balet Internet ballet

www.intima.org/bi
2001–2009

Internet – Moskva Moscow – Bergen – TV – Ljubljana – Milano Milan – Beograd Belgrade – Berlin – Hongkong Hong Kong – Dresden – Olimpija Olympia – Madrid – Velenje – Seul Seoul – Svalbard

“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

Ballettikka Internettikka je niz taktičnih umetniških projektov, ki raziskujejo brezžični medmrežni balet, kombiniran z gverilskimi taktikami in mobilnimi medmrežnimi prenosi v živo. V obdobju 2001–9 je bilo izvedenih devetnajst nizkotehnoloških performansov Ballettikka Internettikka kot neposrednih gverilskih baletnih akcij. Avtorja vdirata v različne prostore in lokacije ter izvajata internetne koreografije, temelječe na računalniških jezikih, poleg svojih, baletno nesposobnih teles pa manipulirata plesno omejene in politično tesnobne daljinsko vodene robote z vohunskimi kamerami, ki plešejo medmrežni balet. V povezavi baleta in digitalnih komunikacij iščeta prostor najmanjšega možnega gibanja, in prevajata telo v računalniško kodo.
Projekt načrtno prevzema gverilske taktike boja in jih umešča v dolgočasne kontekste, v katerih potekajo izpraznjeni procesi brez razloga, ki vzpostavljajo strategije dialoga umetnosti s kapitalom ter z anarhističnim potrošništvom sodobne družbe.

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Ballettikka Internettikka is a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of Internet ballet. It explores wireless Internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live Internet broadcasting strategies. From 2001 to 2009 nineteen different Ballettikka Internettikka actions were performed. Ballettikka Internettikka uses impossible connections to develop the possible strategies of resistance and disobedience. The project participates in the already existing protocols of communication, yet without being servile to these protocols, it opens up links between emotionality and technology, production and ethics, desire and organization, imagination and institution. The distribution of politics and intimacy without any reason and purpose, with the use of limited, defined, and controlled protocols is a dystopia and an unsubmissive revolt to the world of capital, which can be disarmed only by the use of its own tactics.

In conjunction with the Ballettikka Internettikka presentation-performance as part of Exodos Festival 2009, a retrospective exhibition of Ballettikka Internettikka is on view in Škuc Gallery. Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, 22 April at 8 pm. The exhibition is open from 23 April to 22 May 2009. Guided tours of the exhibition: 12 May at 6 pm and 21 May at 6 pm.
Galerija Škuc, Stari trg 21, 1000 Ljubljana, t & f: +386 1 42 13 140, www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si

Ballettikka Internetikka je soprodukcija Virtualne baze Intima in Cone 2001–9 ter Aksiome 2003. Soprodukcija predstavitve Ballettikke Internettikke na Exodosu 2009: Exodos Ljubljana, www.exodos.si; Virtualna baza Intima – zavod za sodobne umetnosti, www.intima.org; Cona – zavod za procesuiranje sodobne umetnosti, www.cona.si. Ballettikka Internettikka is a co-product ion of Intima Virtual Base and Cona 2001–2009 and Aksioma 2003. The Ballettikka Internettikka presentation during Exodos 2009 is a co-production of: Exodos Ljubljana, www.exodos.si; Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts, www. intima.org; Cona – Insitute for Contemporary Art Processing,www.cona.si.