MoTA Museum of Transitory Art

{{Infobox | name = MoTA Museum of Transitory Art | local name = MoTA Muzej tranzitornih umetnosti | street = Gosposvetska 12 | town = SI-1000 Ljubljana | telephone = 386 (0) 40 809 809 | email = mota.museum@gmail.com | website = http://www.motamuseum.com/

MoTA Museum of Transitory Art is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 in Ljubljana, which kicked off as a programme of the CodeEp Cultural Association.

MoTA is a platform dedicated to the research and production of the transitory, experimental, and live art forms. It is a museum without physical space and its programme is realised in different locations and contexts, both in material and virtual space. All of MoTA's activities engage in the research of art and its production and representation conditions. MoTA is also an artistic-curatorial initiative whose field of action is continuous redefinition of artistic methodologies.

In November 2013 the MoTA Museum of Transitory Art opened a new venue at Gosposvetska 12, in the centre of Ljubljana. The MoTA Point, A Space for Art and Ideas serves as an info point, a working space for resident artists and workshops as well as a temporary exhibition space.

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic], an installation by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica that got the OHO Group Award in 2015

Activities and projects

MoTA organises support actions for transitory art in the form of continuous events, exhibitions, and educational programmes both locally and internationally. Conceived through an open and collaborative approach of international curators and artists, enriched with in-depth research with a yearly focus, the programme takes place throughout the year in different partner cities in Europe and beyond.

Transitory network and the artist-in-residence programme

Since 2008 MoTA has been running the first ongoing artist-in-residence programme in Ljubljana for media, sound or visual artists, curators and researchers. So far MoTA has hosted and produced the work of more than 15 artists, among them Jorge Rodriguez Gerada, Felix Thorn, ArtKillArt, and Lexa Walsh. In 2009 MoTA hosted the new media artist and theoretician Nedine Kachornnamsong (Thailand/Sweden), who worked in Ljubljana in collaboration with Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab.

In 2010, MoTA established the Transitory Network of residencies in Eastern Europe. The Transitory Network is an open platform that aims to link different institutions with a similar mindset, that is: the dissemination of transitory art.

Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art

Sonica is a festival of transitory, sound, and experimental art, conceived as a showcase of the annual programme of the MoTA Museum of Transitory Art. It is an experimental festival, which questions ways of representation, exhibition formats, crossing borders between art and theory, object and performance. It evolves around a yearly theme ("Post" in 2009, "Real Virtuality" in 2010, "Transitions" in 2011).

CinemaScapes – series of live cinema events

Live cinema events entitled "CinemaScapes" have featured artists such as Plaid (UK), SOLU (FI), Olga Mink and Scanner, The Kilimanjaro Drakjazz Ensemble, Cronica Electronica, Mira Calix, Byetone, and many more. The series has primarily taken place Kinodvor Cinema, but has since moved to other locations across the city.

Workshops and education in the field of new media art

Following the practice of CodeEp, MoTA organises workshops for students and young professionals in the field of new media art. Each MoTA resident gives a workshop and/or presentation of his work. In 2010, MoTA launched the educational portal Artist Talk, an online platform for publishing and disseminating archives of artist talks across Europe.

Tomaž Brate Reading room and Mediatheque

In 2009, MoTA and Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana have opened a reading room and a mediatheque in the Jakopič Gallery, which consists of a vast collection of books belonging to Tomaž Brate as well as the MoTA book collection. The reading room serves also as the MoTA info point with information on resident artists, current, past and future projects, and archives.

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Gallery

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic], an installation by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica that got the OHO Group Award in 2015

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic], Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, produced by Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute, 2014. An OHO Group Award winner.

Nevromat [Neur-O-Matic] by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, produced by Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute, 2014

In 2013, MoTA Museum of Transitory Art invited the Berlin based artist Jan Voorman for a residency. The project he worked on at that time, called Dispatchwork, consisted of a series of somewhat surreal interventions into public space.

Karina Smigla-Bobinski (DE) worked as an artists in residence at MoTA in 2013. She developed an analogue interactive installation called ADA, "a post-industrial creature, visitor-animated, creatively acting artist-sculpture, self-forming artwork".

Gregor Zemljič (of Random Logic) and Rashad Becker conversing during the Sonica Festival in 2015

Martin Bricelj Baraga's project Moonlith, a Monument to the Moon and the Stars, presented at Ljubljana's Republic Square in 2015

The visual duo Izland, aka Gašper Milkovič Biloslav and Marko Vivoda, ran a workshop on analogue visuals at Sonica, 2015

Created by the artist Stavinsky, the Black and white Rubik’s Cube functions as a "minimalist meditation on the radical repolarisation of the east and west of the postcoldwar Europe".

A 3.3-metre installation dubbed Cyanometer, created by Martin Bricelj Baraga. Located at the Ajdovščina Square in Ljubljana, it is 'measuring the blueness of the sky' as well as showing data on air quality and the main polluters.

For the Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art's closing night, MoTA opened its new space to the public with the Sonic Pavillion exhibition, 2016.

Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita performing at Kino Šiška in the context of Sonica Classics concert series, 2016

MoTA LAB first opened its doors during the Sonica Festival in 2016. The place then exhibited site-specific installations by Staš Vrenko, Nonotak (FR), Nikola Uzunovski (MK), Anne Katrine Senstad (US) and others.

Lawrence English at MoTA Museum of Transitory Art, 2017.

Radical Ear 02, workshop led by Lawrence English where participants got the necessary expertise from the fields of field recording, sound documentation, manipulation of field recordings and sound archiving, 2017.

Neja Tomšič, MoTA Point and international projects coordinator, 2016.

A light installation, set up by the duo Nonotak at MoTA Lab during the 2016 edition of the Sonica Festival

Supported by Sally Golding's visuals, Matt Spendlove (aka Spatial) is presenting his bass heavy electronica live set at Sonica, 2016

Moderator Luka Zagoričnik and the three speakers were joined onstage for a discussion by Matt Spendlove aka Spatial, SONIC.ARCHITECTURES Symposium at Slovenian Cinematheque organised by MoTA Museum of Transitory Art, 2016.

Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art at Tovarna Rog, 2016.

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