Domestic Research Society

Contact

Društvo za domače raziskave

Šarhova 34, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.ddr.si/

info@ddr.si

Events abroad

Past Events

• 9 May 2016

  Austria Klagenfurt/Celovec Alpen-Adria-Universität,Stiftungssaal der Kärntner Sparkasse

  
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  The Domestic Research Society presents the research project Casting of Death at the TRACES kick-off meeting in Klagenfurt

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 2 Apr 2014

  Japan Osaka Shinbun-onna Gallery

  
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  Jani Pirnat presents the activities of the Domestic Research Society

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 3 Mar 2013

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  30 Mar 2013

  Croatia Rijeka

  
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  The international project Hard Facts by the Domestic Research Society, Pensart and SIZ under research in Madrid

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 15 Feb 2013

  Spain Madrid Hotel Silken Puerta America

  
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  The Domestic Research Society involved in Speedarting at the JUSTMAD4 Art Fair, hosted by the Pensart Cultura AC

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 8 Feb 2013

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  28 Feb 2013

  Spain Madrid

  
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  The international project Hard Facts by the Domestic Research Society, Pensart and SIZ under research in Madrid

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 27 Sep 2012

  Austria Vienna GG68

  
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  The Hard Facts project presented by the Domestic Research Society in cooperation with SIZ Association (Rijeka) at the round table

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 1 Jun 2012

  Italy San Pietro al Natisone/Špeter Slovenov Slovenski kulturni center/Centro culturale sloveno

  
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  The Unleashed Tongue, a workshop on phrasemes by the Domestic Research Society (Alenka Pirman)

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 26 Nov 2010

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  Croatia Zagreb DAZ – Društvo arhitekata Zagreb

  
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  Domestic Research Society at the Words Room international conference

  
  

  
  

  
  

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The Domestic Research Society (DRS) was established in 2004 by visual artists Alenka Pirman and Damijan Kracina, and art historian Jani Pirnat. Under the motto "Nothing domestic is foreign to us" the society documents, collects, researches and presents domestic phenomena as installations, exhibitions or web projects related to the field of culture, art, science, conservation, and education.

Alongside an ongoing spoken Slovenian open online dictionary Razvezani jezik - The Unleashed Tongue, launched in 2004, the team has conceived several engaging visual arts projects, the most recent being the Word for Word, Without Words, an interdisciplinary exhibition in City Art Gallery Ljubljana.

Razvezani jezik - The Unleashed Tongue book cover (2007)

Projects

In 2004 the team conceived an engaging public art project entitled The Animals 1914–1918 installed in Kobarid. From 2005 to 2010 a modular display laboratory called "Kabinet" (The Cabinet), a temporary exhibiting space (located in the inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, was conceived in relation to the phenomenon of private collections and their displays. The following projects took place in the Cabinet: La Capilla Atomica; Alternations by Jani Pirnat; Shut Your Eyes and Watch (Silent Lectures) and On Profession II - Rog Teachings both by Alenka Pirman, Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec Rogaška Slatina curated by Pirnat; Specimen by Damijan Kracina and Jani Pirnat; Napeto v kabinetu [Distended Cabinet] installation by Irena Romih; Jelenometry research exhibition by Alexei Monroe and DRS members (a hunt for the symbolic Stag on the borders of natural science, humanities, and art).

The ongoing project by DRS S'pajkanje [Domestic Spider] started as an extensive research on the metal wall spider, an ornament that has been adorning the walls of Slovene homes for almost 60 years, in the meantime becoming so commonplace that it gets overlooked even by its owners and their neighbours. Some of the findings were displayed at the Kolodvor Library in September 2009.

Artwork educational project

From 2007 to 2010 DRS co-organised a joint project with Škuc Gallery and Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art: Artwork – a series of lectures that focused on individual works of art. The first lecturers were Tomaž Brejc and Bojan Gorenec followed by Jože Barši, Miklavž Komelj and Dunja Kukovec in 2008 and Dragan Živadinov, Meta Gabršek Prosenc and Martina Vovk in 2009. In 2010 Artwork featured lectures by Beti Žerovc and Jiři Bezlaj.

International presence

Domestic Research Society has participated at the Crazy Curators Biennial in Bratislava in 2008, curated by Alenka Gregorič and in 2010 it was hosted by the Superficie Totale (Giovanni Morbin) in Cornedo Vicentino, Italy. In 2012 the society and its partner associations SIZ (Rijeka, Croatia) and PENSART (Madrid, Spain) won a research and development grant by the European Cultural Foundation for the Hard Facts project. The project focuses on the DIY history methods and will take place in Vienna, Ljubljana, Madrid and Rijeka in 2012–2012.

See also

• Razvezani jezik - The Unleashed Tongue
• Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec Rogaška Slatina
• Škuc Gallery

External links

• Domestic Research Society
• The Artwork series of lectures on VideoLectures.Net (in Slovenian)
• The S'pajkanje research project's blog (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Domestic Research Society's founding members. From left to right: Damjan Kracina, Alenka Pirman, Jani Pirnat. Word for Word, Without Words project exhibited at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana in 2010.

The Animal Dance Macabre painting by the Domestic Research Society at the Rebro World War I cemetery, Triglav National Park, 2015

Casting of Death, a view of the exhibition in the Match Gallery, 2017: Death Masks (1963–2017) by Viktor Gojkovič.

Some artefacts from the Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec, Rogaška Slatina, as displayed in 2006 in The Cabinet of the Domestic Research Society

For a long time, the Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec, Rogaška Slatina was more or less a privately-held collection. In 2006, a part of it was displayed in The Cabinet of the Domestic Research Society.

Vojaki barvajo belca [Soldiers painting the white horse], Ilustrirani glasnik, 1914, used on the cover of the catalogue Winter Stock by Domestic Research Society, 2008