TESLA Award 2017 Nominees

 

We have the nominees for the first TESLA Award!
The jury (Martin Bricelj Baraga, Aleksandra Kostič, Miha Colner and Florian Weigl) has chosen 3 artists and 2 artistic duos.

Full list of nominees

VALERIE WOLF GANG
A Slovenian visual artist who works in the fields of cinema, video and contemporary artistic practices. Her work and research reflect social conflicts that arise from political regulations and limitations. Her project The Silence of the Balkans seeks to recreate the state of memory in the Balkans and present the so-called “Balkan soul” with an interactive installation.

META DRČAR
A Slovenian artist who focuses on performance at the intersection of sculpture, installation, contemporary dance, architecture and video. From 2009 she regularly collaborates with the Chinese artist Dori Deng. Rythm Series, Work No. 5 is a new work in the series of performances she and Deng have been developing since 2012. The series is a reserch of visual rythm through performative sculpture.

AGNES MOMIRSKI
A Slovenian interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the relationship between the body, technology and the self, and the interpersonal interaction in virtual and physical space. Her project The Sound of a Universal Voice seeks to research the relationship between the voice and its visual representation through a series of visualisations of various disembodied sounds that can be heard online. At the same time, she is interested in the universal voice, its sound and appearance.

PLATEAURESIDUE
Aljaž Celarc and Eva Pavlič Seifert are a Slovenian artistic duo. Their work focuses on space, nature and ecology. Their project Ex Topia is developed in association with the Anton Melik Institute for Geography and seeks to research and document the disappearance of the Triglav glacier. The project is based on expeditions, research and development of special lenses from ice. 

ANDREJ KORUZA and GAJA MEŽNARIĆ OSOLE
This is the first artistic collaboration between Andrej Koruza, a Slovenian intermedia artist, and designer Gaja Mežnarić Osole. Their project Symbiocen: Discovering New Landscapes of Coexistence is based on developing smart beehives from the wood of invasive species. The project uses both bees as biosensors for pollution and invasive species as building material.