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Jasmina Cibic, The Gift, Act II, 2019. Single channel HD video (still). Courtesy of the artist.
Event
Preview & Performance | Jasmina Cibic: The Pleasure of Expense
17 Oct 2019
Regular hours
- Thu, 17 Oct
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
- 13 Perth Road
- Dundee
- DD1 4HT
- United Kingdom
The Pleasure of Expense is a major solo exhibition of new works by award-winning Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic.
About
The Pleasure of Expense is a major solo exhibition of new works by award-winning Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic, internationally lauded since representing Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial (2013). Visually evocative and critically engaged, the exhibition at Cooper Gallery choreographs film, sculpture, photography, textile, performance and archives into a provocative mediation on the aesthetics and gestures underscoring contemporary politics and international relations.
Replete with the appropriate pomp and circumstance, the curtains will be raised on The Pleasure of Expense at the exhibition preview with an all-female operatic ensemble. Bringing the gifting of culture centre stage, the ensemble will sing excerpts of political speeches made during key moments of social crisis in the 20th century. Sung whilst reclining on hammocks embroidered with political slogans and suspended from three metal sculptures, the new performance brings state power, modernist architecture and the disciplined body into a single spectacle.
With 2019 marking one hundred years since the founding of the League of Nations and haunted by the uncertainties of Brexit and concurrent shifts in global power, The Pleasure of Expense is a timely dissecting of statecraft and the concept of the political gift; the donation of artistic, architectural, political or philosophical thoughts to ideological structures. Composed of a newly commissioned gallery-specific filmic installation, a live performance, existing works and archival material, the exhibition and its Event Series provide a nuanced and subtle play on the recurring politicisation of culture.
The visual touchstone of the exhibition is an immersive photographic mural of a fictitious politicised landscape. Projected onto this assemblage, Cibic’s new film The Gift: Act II conjures the architectural space of the Palace of Nations in Geneva (home to the League of Nations 1929-1938), whose interior was comprised of gifts from member states.
The event is free and unticketed.
Performance starts at 5.30pm.
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber.
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides.
For access enquiries please contact exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk
