Jasmina Cibic Press Release Long_form

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Press Release | April 2012

Bus-Tops Jasmina Cibic No ExperienceNecessary (Wina Gallery Show

in London)Bus-Tops Invited ArtistsProjects April 2012


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specific screens of Bus-Tops are not entirelydissimilar to the public information screens at

Ljubljanas international airport that she onceused to make a work. Mass transport of allkinds features strongly in Cibics work, whetherimplied by the airports in which she createdwelcoming committees that manifested asperformances and subsequent film works orthe seductive aesthetics of beautiful stagedphotographs shot inside disused airliners.Similarly, the almost persistent preoccupationwith the role of a space open or enclosed,public versus private- in defining and refiningan art work is also acutely present.


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Perhaps most importantly, even if the bingohall and lottery ticket look of the new work on

the Bus-Tops screens give the impression of something of a departure at first glance, it isthe conceptual resolution of the work thatconnects it most strongly to her core artisticpreoccupations. Space, and the position of anart work in space, is once again primary.

Though in this instance it is the contemplationof the use of the Bus-Tops technology beyondits lifespan as a platform for art that hasprompted Cibic to muse that it is inevitablethat someone will try to exploit it


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commercially; that it is a surface foradvertising waiting to happen.

Taking this as her starting point Jasmina Cibicuses the Bus-Tops screens to advertise theopportunity for the broadest public to enter alottery that could literally see them win theopportunity of a solo exhibition in a Londongallery space. No mere cynical rhetoric: bygathering a minimum number of required

passwords, going to a specifically createdwebsite ( www.noexperiencenecessary.org ) andemailing their entry details, anyone is able toenter the draw that will result in the winner
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being offered a solo exhibition in a newbespoke project space currently under

construction in Londons Stoke Newington. Noexperience necessary, no questions asked apart from the required minimum 5 (of 31)passwords- anyone defining himself or herself as an artist who is lucky enough to have his orher name drawn out of the lottery ball will beoffered a solo exhibition opening in January2013. The lucky winner will be announced at apublic ceremony planned to take place inLondon in July 2012.


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In the work of Jasmina Cibic there is frequentlyan approach of the tensions that exist between

things; more usually than not, abstract andnotional concepts art and craft or politics andaesthetics- that remain open, up for debateand not easy to encapsulate. However, Cibicswork does not bring its particular focus to theuneasy ground that lies between profound andvast abstract phenomena from a naveposition. Hers is a knowing eye that casts itsinvestigation into these unclear spaces fullyinformed by an art historical knowledge and anawareness of political and cultural theory.


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In No Experience Necessary (Win a GalleryShow in London), certain discourses are

immediately, even humorously, evident. Forexample, theres a tongue-in-cheek commenton the nature of the international art systemand Londons fevered complicity in sustainingan art system that focuses heavily on thecommercial and the visibility of the individual,in part by creating a structure that strips awaythe correlation of artistic quality and individualidentity that are often a feature of thisphenomenon. But other aspects prove it analtogether more complex and ambivalentwork: in requiring that the would-be entrants


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gather a certain number of passwords toqualify, there is an implied narrative that we

might interpret as seeing the international artsystem as being something that requires a lotof legwork to get ahead. Or, for those who aresmart enough to crack the code with minimalinformation, there may be means by whichsome canny individuals can circumvent time-consuming effort. As a lottery, however, luckand statistical likelihood always plays a role.

We might even intuit artists narcissisticreflections of the international art system as acompetitive environment comparable with the


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run performance in which budding artistseffectively become the performers with

varying degrees of self-awareness. Thisdelegation of labour by the artist is anotherongoing strategy of Jasmina Cibic who hasoften deployed and managed relevantly skilledcraftspeople to execute the physicalproduction of aspects of her work. In onesense, No Experience Necessary (Win aGallery Show in London) sees Cibic deployingothers who identify themselves as artists tocomplete her art work.


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Furthermore, within the total body of Cibicswork to date, all such ideas often come

together as a confluence of considerationsaddressing some of the theoretical or politicalconcerns that are familiar ground in the workof artists from the post-Communist Europeanmainland. Playfulness and good-naturedhumour are often features of Jasmina Cibicswork. But she also frequently as in NoExperience Necessary (Win a Gallery Show inLondon)- turns a steely gaze on the oncehallowed tenets of the artist of the socialiststate as much as critiquing more recent globaldevelopments. Occupying and subverting


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public space can become a means of social,professional and personal critique. In a world in

which an increasing amount of open space isbecoming privately owned, we are prompted toconsider what now constitutes public space.Perhaps even those once most public of spaces-the bus or the bus shelter- are no longerimmune to change. Similarly, as many physicallocales and publicly visible surfaces acrossEurope previously managed by the stateaccording to rigid regulation of any commercialexploitation drift into a world of out-sourcing,contracted management by private companies


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or the selling off of public assets, what newmanifestations of visual culture might follow?

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Details

Editors Notes

Launch Date: 1st April 2012

Website: www.bus-tops.com


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About the artists

Jasmina Cibic (b.1979) lives and works in London. Shestudied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and latercompleted her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College,London. She has exhibited internationally in museumsand commercial galleries. In 2011 she won the TrendAward, her native Slovenias most prestigious art prize.Upcoming projects include a new commission by theKunsthaus Graz and a solo exhibition of new work inOctober; one of the key exhibitions for Maribors year asa European City of Culture. In 2011, Art Catlin awardedher the special commission for a new work for permanentdisplay in the new headquarters of Catlin in the City of


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London. She was included in U3 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Charles Esche. Amongstother places she has exhibited at Galerija Vigalica,Ljubljana; ersatz, London; Galerija kuc, Ljubljana;Mestna galerija Ljubljana; California College of the Arts,San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; GalerijaGanes Pratt, Ljubljana; Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation,Venice; Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor; Five Years Gallery,London; Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo;Ljubljana International Airport and Knstlerhaus Graz.

About the Bus Tops project directors


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Alfie Dennen is a technologist and artist, his most recentprojects in collaborative art being Britglyph , The Big Art

Mob (for Channel 4) and What Is The Question . Hisinterest in mass-collaboration started with the site We'reNot Afraid, which he started in 2005 as a response to the7/7 London Bombings, and since then he has worked onprojects which explore public participation and havecollaboration at their core.

Paula Le Dieu has a background in technology, mediaand theatre. She has been involved in facilitating creativecommunities since 2003 when she started working on theCreative Archive at the BBC. Since then she has designed
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About Arts Council England

Arts Council England champions, develops and investsin artistic and cultural experiences that enrich peopleslives. It supports a range of activities across the arts,museums and libraries from theatre to digital art,reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts tocollections. Great art and culture inspires us, brings ustogether and teaches us about ourselves and the worldaround us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2011and 2015, it will invest 1.4 billion of public money fromgovernment and an estimated 0.85 billion from theNational Lottery to help create these experiences for asmany people as possible across the country.


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Press contacts

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