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The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is an umbrella organisation for the activities of the internationally-renowned Slovenian artist Tadej Pogačar. Established in 1998, it fosters both his varied and rich art production, as well as his many institutional endeavours – the P74 Centre and Gallery and the Kapsula Gallery bookshop/project space, the annually presented OHO Group Award, the Sound Explicit Festival and The International Biennial of Short Video. Via the P74 Gallery the institute also promotes international artists.

Having recently turned its focus to artists' books – with the aim to produce, present, distribute and sell them – the organisation has also created the Artist's Book Collection of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute. Since 2010 it sets up the biennial Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book.

TADEJ POGAČAR & the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.Museum of Contemporary Art by SODOBNA UMETNOST / CONTEMPORARY ART on YouTube

Background

The historical base for the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute was Tadej Pogačar's series of art projects that took place at the beginning of the 1990s, entitled the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1993, this was renamed as the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA). Since then, a number of further branches of the institute have been formed. The first among them was the P74 Centre and Gallery, opened in 1991 in Šentvid, a somewhat peripheral neighbourhood of Ljubljana. Later, in 2008, the Kapsula Gallery bookshop/project space was set up in an underground shopping arcade in the Ljubljana centre. Both galleries moved to the Šiška Cultural Quarter in 2012.

Tadej Pogačar

Tadej Pogačar (born in 1960) has exhibited his work at numerous renowned galleries and museums around the world – the MUMOK in Vienna, the San Francisco Art Institute, the NGBK in Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Central House of Artists in Moscow, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City, the Espaivisor – Visor Gallery in Valencia, and the Vojvodina Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, to name just a few. He was also present at the biennials in Sao Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, and Tirana, and at Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam. In 2014, a major retrospective exhibition about him and his P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art was set up by Moderna galerija (MG) in Ljubljana, and was later also shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

Tadej has received a number of residencies and awards, among them, the György Kepes Research Scholarship and an award by M.I.T. Boston.

PMCA

The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA) functions as a virtual institution which exists without its own space – it rather settles into territories and networks of other institutions, operating according to the principles of new parasitism. Its operations (events, public interventions, performances, exhibitions, projections, etc.) are geared towards analysing and deconstructing the symbolic centres of power.

Very notable acts in this vein have been the reworking of the logotype of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the theft of the introductory speech of the director of the Guggenheim from its homepage. In its more recent collaborative projects, PMCA has also delved into artistic research and analysis of topics such as alternative urban strategies, parallel economies and human trafficking.

Projects and exhibitions

P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. has realised numerous interventions into collections of other museums, including the collection of Ljubljana's Museum of Modern Art; Tretjak's African Collection at Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts; the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Naturmeuseum, Rotterdam; Műcsarnok, Budapest; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin; the Limerick City Gallery, Limerick; and the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.

One of the more widely echoed projects of the PMCA was Kings of the Street (1995), a pioneering artistic collaboration with the homeless community in Ljubljana. Even more resounding was the collaborative transdisciplinary project CODE:RED (1999–2010), for which Pogačar was awarded the Rihard Jakopič Award in 2009 and about which a book was published in 2010. It comprehensively dealt with the phenomena of sex workers, and PMCA received international media attention with its 1st World Congress of Sex Workers at the 49th Venice Biennale and New Parasitism at the Padiglione dei Sex Worker in Giardini. It was also shown at a number of international events like the Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam (1996) and at the biennials in São Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague and Tirana.

Publications

Among the numerous PMCA publications, one can mention 6 thematic editions of the Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism, 2 editions of the thematic newspaper Sex Worker, and the 2007 overview about the work of PMCA, titled The Best is Yet to Come. It includes essays by Zdenka Badovinac, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Miško Šuvaković and Igor Zabel discussing the beginning of the PMCA, its strategies of parasitism and its historical and cultural significance, and situating the practice within the local and international contexts.

Artists' books

As of 2004, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute started to systematically support and popularise the production of artists' books and artist editions of both national and international authors. It has published the artists' books of many Slovenian authors, among them Matej Stupica, Jure Engelsberger, Zora Stančić, Dejan Habicht, Tadej Pogačar, Jaka Železnikar, Andreja Džakušič, Mina Fina, Mladen Stropnik, Petra Varl, as well as by internationally acclaimed artists such as Mladen Stilinović, Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Iveković, Vlado Martek, Balint Szombathy and Dan Perjovschi.

These books constitute the core of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute collection. Yet, since 2005, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute has also acquired (by exchange or purchase) more than 170 other artists' books from all over the world. The books are occasionally featured at events prepared by P74 and Kapsula.

Since 2009, the institute presents and sells artists' books at international art fairs such as the Miss Read in the Kunstwerke Berlin and the NY Art Book Fair in P.S.1, Centre of Contemporary Arts as well as fairs in Los Angeles, Paris and Brussels. Some of the books have been included in the artists' books collections of eminent institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA in New York, the Museum of Modern Art Weserburg, the South End University in London and the CNEAI Paris. They can also be purchased in specialised bookshops such as Boekie.Woekie (Amsterdam), Pro-qm and Motto (Berlin), Printed Matter (New York), Castilo-Coralles and Florence Loewy (Paris).

The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute organised several seminars about artists' books, during which many authors offered their theoretical or practical views on the topic. Among these authors were the Croatian artist Vlado Martek, the British artist and publisher Anthony Auerbach, and the Slovenian artist Marko Pogačnik, a member of the avant-garde group OHO, in which he established the artists' book concept under the name OHO editions (1965–1968).

Artists representation

The P74 Gallery is very active at international art fairs, mostly representing artist dealing with either new media or visual arts. Among them are Tomaž Furlan, Dejan Habicht, Polonca Lovšin, Uroš Potocnik, Jože Barši, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinovic and Balint Szombathy.

In recent years, P74 was present at fairs such as ViennaContemporary, VOLTA (Basel), ARCOmadrid, Art Rotterdam, VOLTA NY, Art Market Budapest, etc.

Sound Explicit

In 2003, the institute introduced a new series of music events, first held at the P74 Centre and Gallery premises. As of 2011, the Sound Explicit Festival has moved to the Jakopič Gallery, where it takes place each September or October. The festival is dedicated to experimental and improvised music by Slovenian artists, though it is occasionally also featuring international guests.

Open calls for artists

Foremost of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.'s open calls is the one for the OHO Group Award, which is annually awarded to a young Slovenian artist under the age of 35. The institute organises it in cooperation with the Foundation for a Civil Society from New York and sends the winners there for a two-month residency.

Additionally, the institute also regularly invites local and international artists to express themselves by artist's books, video pieces or various new media formats. Since 2008 the institute also makes a public call for artists to create short, 5-minute videos and organises the International Biennial of Short Video.

External links

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+The [[P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute]] is an umbrella organisation for the activities of the internationally-renowned Slovenian artist [[Tadej Pogačar]]. Established in [[Established::1998]], it fosters both his varied and rich art production, as well as his many institutional endeavours &ndash; the [[P74 Centre and Gallery]] and the [[Kapsula Gallery]] bookshop/project space, the annually presented [[OHO Group Award]], the [[Sound Explicit Festival]] and [[The International Biennial of Short Video]]. Via the [[P74 Centre and Gallery|P74 Gallery]] the institute also promotes international artists.
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+Having recently turned its focus to artists' books &ndash; with the aim to produce, present, distribute and sell them &ndash; the organisation has also created the ''Artist's Book Collection of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute''. Since 2010 it sets up the biennial [[Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book]].
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+==Background==
+The historical base for the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute was [[Tadej Pogačar|Tadej Pogačar's]] series of art projects that took place at the beginning of the 1990s, entitled the ''Museum of Contemporary Art''. In 1993, this was renamed as the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA). Since then, a number of further branches of the institute have been formed. The first among them was the [[P74 Centre and Gallery]], opened in 1991 in Šentvid, a somewhat peripheral neighbourhood of Ljubljana. Later, in 2008, the [[Kapsula Gallery]] bookshop/project space was set up in an underground shopping arcade in the Ljubljana centre. Both galleries moved to the [[:Category:Šiška Cultural Quarter|Šiška Cultural Quarter]] in 2012.
+==Tadej Pogačar==
+[[Tadej Pogačar]] (born in 1960) has exhibited his work at numerous renowned galleries and museums around the world &ndash; the MUMOK in Vienna, the San Francisco Art Institute, the NGBK in Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Central House of Artists in Moscow, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City, the Espaivisor &ndash; Visor Gallery in Valencia, and the Vojvodina Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, to name just a few. He was also present at the biennials in Sao Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, and Tirana, and at Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam. In 2014, a major retrospective exhibition about him and his P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art was set up by [[Moderna galerija (MG)]] in Ljubljana, and was later also shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
+Tadej has received a number of residencies and awards, among them, the György Kepes Research Scholarship and an award by M.I.T. Boston.
+==PMCA==
+The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA) functions as a virtual institution which exists without its own space &ndash; it rather settles into territories and networks of other institutions, operating according to the principles of ''new parasitism''. Its operations (events, public interventions, performances, exhibitions, projections, etc.) are geared towards analysing and deconstructing the symbolic centres of power.
-The [[P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute]] is the roofing institution for activities of the internationally renowned Slovene artist [[Tadej Pogačar]] and adherents of him. Nowadays it runs two independent spaces in Ljubljana: the [[P74 Centre and Gallery]] and the [[Kapsula Gallery]]. It is the holder and the organizer of the [[OHO Group Award]]. Beside that it is lately conspicuously focused on the artist books with the aim not only to produce, present, dispose and to sell them (international art fairs, in both exhibiting spaces, and per internet), but it also forms the ''Collection of the artist book of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute''. Last but not least, the Institute is the ground for the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA) – Pogačar´s variegated and rich art production, which core is internationally known under the method called the new parasitism.
+Very notable acts in this vein have been the reworking of the logotype of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the theft of the introductory speech of the director of the Guggenheim from its homepage. In its more recent collaborative projects, PMCA has also delved into artistic research and analysis of topics such as alternative urban strategies, parallel economies and human trafficking.
-}}
-==History==
+===Projects and exhibitions===
-The historical base for the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute was the series of Tadej Pogačar´s art projects entitled the Museum of Contemporary Art realized in the beginning of 1990s, what was in [[Established::1993]] renamed and established as official institution named the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA). Since then many projects were accomplished and further brunches of the Institute were formed: in 1999 was opened the P74 Centre and Gallery at Prušnikova 74 in Ljubljana Šentvid, on the periphery of the Slovene capital. To bring the gallery activities in many senses closer to the public and with the intention to be the player of the (international) art market the Kapsula Gallery was opened in 2008. More about both galleries read singular articles.
-==PCMA==
+P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. has realised numerous interventions into collections of other museums, including the collection of Ljubljana's [[Museum of Modern Art]]; Tretjak's African Collection at [[Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts]]; the collection of the [[National Museum of Contemporary History]], Ljubljana; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Naturmeuseum, Rotterdam; Műcsarnok, Budapest; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin; the Limerick City Gallery, Limerick; and the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
-PMCA became renowned for the reworking of the logotype of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the theft of the introductory speech of the director of the Guggenheim from its homepage.
-PMCA functions as a virtual institution which exists without its own space and employees, but rather merely settles into territories, locations and networks and feeds off the juices of institutions and operates according to the principles of new parasitism. Its operation is so oriented into the analysis and deconstruction of the symbolic centres of power and the search for parallel models of cultural, economic and social operation. The PCMA  establishes inter-specific relations with institutions and social groups in order to enforce changes in the operation with the analysis of relations and actions within the systems. In recent collaborative projects PMCA deals with research and analysis of alternative urban strategies, parallel economy and human trafficking in selected urban areas.
+One of the more widely echoed projects of the PMCA was ''Kings of the Street'' (1995), a pioneering artistic collaboration with the homeless community in Ljubljana. Even more resounding was the collaborative transdisciplinary project ''CODE:RED'' (1999&ndash;2010), for which Pogačar was awarded the [[Rihard Jakopič Award]] in 2009 and about which a book was published in 2010. It comprehensively dealt with the phenomena of sex workers, and PMCA received international media attention with its ''1st World Congress of Sex Workers'' at the 49th Venice Biennale and ''New Parasitism'' at the Padiglione dei Sex Worker in Giardini. It was also shown at a number of international events like the Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam (1996) and at the biennials in São Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague and Tirana.
+===Publications===
-Numerous interventions into the other museum collections followed, including collection of [[Museum of Modern Art]]; Tretjak’s African Collection at [[Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec]]; the collection of the [[National Museum of Contemporary History]] Ljubljana; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Naturmeuseum, Rotterdam; Mucsarnok, Budapest; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin.
+Among the numerous PMCA publications, one can mention 6 thematic editions of the ''Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism'', 2 editions of the thematic newspaper ''Sex Worker'', and the 2007 overview about the work of PMCA, titled ''The Best is Yet to Come''. It includes essays by [[Zdenka Badovinac]], Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Miško Šuvaković and [[Igor Zabel]] discussing the beginning of the PMCA, its strategies of parasitism and its historical and cultural significance, and situating the practice within the local and international contexts.
-The PMCA received wide media attention and fame with the organisation of the ''1st World Congress of Sex Workers'' at the 49th Venice Biennale and of New Parasitism at the Padiglione dei Sex Worker in Giardini. It has cooperated on a number of international manifestations on the Tirana Biennale (2005), International Biennale of Contemporary Art Prague (2005), São Paulo Art Biennial (2006), International Istanbul Biennial (2007), and the Biennial of the Canary Islands (2009).
+==Artists' books==
-One of the most echoed project of the PMCA was ''Kings of the Street'' (1995), also one of the first artistic street actions with Ljubljana’s homeless people, as well the on-going collaborative transdisciplinary project CODE:RED (1999/2000-2010).
+As of 2004, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute started to systematically support and popularise the production of artists' books and artist editions of both national and international authors. It has published the artists' books of many Slovenian authors, among them [[Matej Stupica]], [[Jure Engelsberger]], [[Zora Stančić]], [[Dejan Habicht]], [[Tadej Pogačar]], [[Jaka Železnikar]], [[Andreja Džakušič]], [[Mina Fina]], [[Mladen Stropnik]], [[Petra Varl]], as well as by internationally acclaimed artists such as Mladen Stilinović, Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Iveković, Vlado Martek, Balint Szombathy and Dan Perjovschi.
-Beside six thematic editions of the review ''Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism'', two editions of the thematic newspaper ''Sex Worker,'' the PMCA published in 2007 the most comprehensive survey to date of the work of PMCA as a book entitled ''The Best Is Yet to Come''. It includes essays of [[Zdenka Badovinac]], Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Miško Šuvaković, and [[Igor Zabel]] that discuss the beginning of the PMCA, strategies of parasitism and its historical and cultural significance, and situate the practice within the local and international context. The book is distinguished by opulent image documentation, divided on chapters of early actions, the major projects carried out between 1994 and 2005, concluding with the look at the PMCA recent projects in the time or still (some) not being presented to the public.
+These books constitute the core of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute collection. Yet, since 2005, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute has also acquired (by exchange or purchase) more than 170 other artists' books from all over the world. The books are occasionally featured at events prepared by [[P74 Centre and Gallery|P74]] and [[Kapsula Gallery|Kapsula]].
-In January 2009 on the occasion of 15 anniversary of the PMCA, the P74 Centre and Gallery featured the exhibition ''This is not America – 15 Years of P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art,'' with the summit of the discussion about the museum with Charles Esche, curator, writer, director of the Van Abbemuseum (Eidhoven, NL) as a guest. The exhibition clearly showed, how in the decade and half the PMCA created, organised and coordinated numerous events, actions, public interventions, performances, exhibitions, projections, round tables, and how it has been a "guest" of museum collections, galleries, schools, universities, personal homes, public spaces, streets.
+Since 2009, the institute presents and sells artists' books at international art fairs such as the Miss Read in the Kunstwerke Berlin and the NY Art Book Fair in P.S.1, Centre of Contemporary Arts as well as fairs in Los Angeles, Paris and Brussels. Some of the books have been included in the artists' books collections of eminent institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA in New York, the Museum of Modern Art Weserburg, the South End University in London and the CNEAI Paris. They can also be purchased in specialised bookshops such as Boekie.Woekie (Amsterdam), Pro-qm and Motto (Berlin), Printed Matter (New York), Castilo-Coralles and Florence Loewy (Paris).
+The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute organised several seminars about artists' books, during which many authors offered their theoretical or practical views on the topic. Among these authors were the Croatian artist Vlado Martek, the British artist and publisher Anthony Auerbach, and the Slovenian artist [[Marko Pogačnik]], a member of the avant-garde group OHO, in which he established the artists' book concept under the name OHO editions (1965&ndash;1968).
-==Call for applications of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute==
+==Artists representation==
-Beside the open call for applications for the [[OHO Group Award]] addressed on the Slovene young artist under the age of 35, which the Institute organize in the co-operation with the Foundation for a Civil Society from New York, the Institute invite annually also local and international artists expressing them in formats of the artist book and video.
+The [[P74 Centre and Gallery|P74 Gallery]] is very active at international art fairs, mostly representing artist dealing with either new media or visual arts. Among them are [[Tomaž Furlan]], [[Dejan Habicht]], [[Polonca Lovšin]], [[Uroš Potocnik]], [[Jože Barši]], Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinovic and Balint Szombathy.
-====Call for applications of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute: short video====
+In recent years, P74 was present at fairs such as ViennaContemporary, VOLTA (Basel), ARCOmadrid, Art Rotterdam, VOLTA NY, Art Market Budapest, etc.
-Since 2008 the Institute is inviting in the begging of the year (dead line for 2010: March 15th) with the public call for applications artists creating 5 minutes long video. Since 2010 the call for proposals addresses beside local artists also the international videasts. Another novelty is thematic focus. The first thematic focused edition exposing the notion of the lifestyle (Simple Living) with the aim of reach the notion of simpleness. 12 by the jury selected art works will be featured in the [[Jakopič Gallery]] in the autumn 2010 within the international multimedia festival BLIND DATE, which will be accompanied with the publication.
-====Call for entries of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute: short video====
+==Sound Explicit==
-Since 2008 the Institute is inviting in the begging of the year (dead line for 2010: March 15th) with the public call for entries artists creating 5 minutes long video. Since 2010 the call for proposals addresses beside local artists also the international videasts. Another novelty is thematic focus. The first thematic focused edition exposing the notion of the lifestyle (Simple Living) with the aim of reach the notion of simpleness. 12 by the jury selected art works will be featured in the [[Jakopič Gallery]] in the autumn 2010 within the international multimedia festival BLIND DATE, which will be accompanied with the publication.
-====Call for entries of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute: artist books====
+In 2003, the institute introduced a new series of music events, first held at the P74 Centre and Gallery premises. As of 2011, the [[Sound Explicit Festival]] has moved to the [[Jakopič Gallery]], where it takes place each September or October. The festival is dedicated to experimental and improvised music by Slovenian artists, though it is occasionally also featuring international guests.
-Since 2004 the PMCA is systematical supporting and popularizing the production of artist books and artist editions of national and international authors. The call for entries is usually published annual in the second part of the year, out of which the jury (each year consists out of new members) chooses on the base of the most interesting proposal/concept an artist, who can with the assistance of the Institute publish her/his artist book. Within this programme the Institute published artist books of [[Andrejka Čufer]], [[Matej Stupica]], [[Jure Engelsberger]], Mladen Stilinović, [[Zora Stančić]], [[Dejan Habicht]], [[Tadej Pogačar]], [[Boštjan Pucelj]], Vlado Martek, [[Jaka Železnikar]], [[Andreja Džakušič]] with the group.
-==P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute Collection of the artist book==
+==Open calls for artists==
-Above mention artist books constitute the core of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute Collection of the artist book. In last years the Institute acquired by the exchange or the purchase more than 170 artist books of national and international authors, which are occasionally featured within events prepared by the Institute and its exhibiting spaces.
-Since 2007 the PMCA prepares regularly seminars about artist books, where many (inter)national authors offered their theoretical or practical views on the topic of artist books, what is usually followed by the open discussions. In 2007 Croatian artist Vlado Martek gave the workshop entitled ''The artist book as the aspect of the activism.''In the same year two further seminars were held by the British artist, author and publisher Anthony Auerbach and Slovene artists [[Marko Pogačnik]], also the member of the avant-garde group OHO, active in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s, talking about the theme of books as creative tools, where he presented also the concept of the edition OHO (1965-1968).
+Foremost of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.'s open calls is the one for the [[OHO Group Award]], which is annually awarded to a young Slovenian artist under the age of 35. The institute organises it in cooperation with the Foundation for a Civil Society from New York and sends the winners there for a two-month residency.
-==P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute and the international art fairs of artist books==
+Additionally, the institute also regularly invites local and international artists to express themselves by artist's books, video pieces or various new media formats. Since 2008 the institute also makes a public call for artists to create short, 5-minute videos and organises the [[International Biennial of Short Video]].
-The Institute presents and sells artists books by the artist being represented not just as the part of the programme of their space [[Kapsula Gallery]] and per internet, since 2009 it presents and sell the selected authors also on the international art fairs as on the Miss Read in the Kunstwerke Berlin and by Printed Matter organised NY Art Book Fair in P.S.1, Centre of contemporary arts in Queens. The Institute represent artists as [[Mladen Stropnik]], [[Dejan Habicht]], [[Tanja Lažetić]], Balint Szombathy, [[Tadej Pogačar]], Vlado Martek, [[Boštjan Pucelj]], Jacob Fabricius, Mladen Stilinović, [[Zora Stančić]], etc.
 ==See also==
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 * [[OHO Group Award]]
-* [[Jakopič Gallery]]
+* [[Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book]]
-* [[Museum of Modern Art]]
+* [[Sound Explicit Festival]]
-* [[Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec]]
-* [[National Museum of Contemporary History]]
 ==External links==
-* [http://www.parasite-pogacar.si/ P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art website]
+* [http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/ P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute website]
-* [http://www.zavod-parasite.si/publikacije/best_en.htm comprehensive survey of the Tadej Pogačar and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art in the book The Best Is Yet to Come]
+* [http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/publications/artist-books Artist books collection]
-* [http://www.artnet.de/magazine/news/mania/mania05-09-09.asp Feature from Viennafair 2009 (also about P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art) on Artnet website]
+* [http://www.parasite-pogacar.si/ Tadej Pogačar and the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art website]
+* [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/853/tadej-pogacar-the-p-a-r-a-s-i-t-e-museum-of-contemporary-art-hills-and-valleys-and-mineral-resources/ A retrospective at the Moderna galerija Ljubljana in 2014]
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