Egon March Institute

Egon March Institute (EMI) was established in 1986 as the first Slovene creative unit for reflection, research and production in interdisciplinary arts. It brings together independent authors to research in the fields of art and present the results to the public. The institute was founded by Slovene pioneer of media art Marko Košnik and it is famous for its unique organizing principle in finding cooperation between artists fundamental. EMI signed over 60 productions in the span of last 25 years, mainly in the fields of interactive performance, interactive installation, net cast performance, radio plays / compositions and video instrumentalism.

History

The name of the Institute first appears in the context of the group Most (Bridge) (Bojan Štokelj, Etbin Stefančič, Marko Košnik and others).

Collaborations

The Institute regularly cooperates with numerous national and specially with international colleagues and institutions. EMI collaborated with Radio Študent (RŠ) with a regular transmission Egon March Institute presents (1991 - 1996) which also iniciated free media university MUU (Media Uplink Unit). This project led to a new project Ministry of experiment (founded by Borut Savski, Bojan Ažman and Marko Košnik) which acted as an independent production unit within Radio Študent between 1997 and 2000.

Egon March Institute also actively collaborated with Video Production Kregar Studio (VPK Studio) (video production), Universcity TV, Van Gogh TV, Steim, Interfulgs and XLR.

Projects

EMI produced Van Gogh TV Piazza Virtuale, a project presented at Dokumenta IX in Kassel in 1992. The program was transmitted by SAT3 TV.

Egon March Institute has produced several sound installations, instrumentalist and video performances, interactive theatre environments and other projects by Marko Košnik and collaborating artists: Stvar - Das Ding - The Thing a sound performance with electroacoustic plates in 1991 in Hfbk Hamburg and Cankarjev dom; Marko Košnik in collaboration with Etbin Štefančič, Andrej Trobentar, Smiljan Šiška, Silvo Župančič, Špela Virant ), Membrane (a sound performance with electroacoustic plates Ostrannenie festival, Bauhaus Dessau, 1993; Marko Košnik, Silvo Zupančič, Borut Savski, Špela Virant), Cukrarna - "Sugar Factory", a dance performance with synchronous video presented at Mediennbienale Leipzig 1994), A B Sence, a dance performance in interactive environment (Cankarjev dom 1996, Marko Košnik, Mateja Bučar, Nebojša Ivanovič, Katarina Pejovič; New Moves, Glasgow 1997, Marko Košnik, Katarina Pejovič, Pavel Okorn),

the PARA Trilogy (Marko Košnik, Katarina Pejovič, Pavel Okorn) which included:

Parahouse, a communication project with real-time digital processing of video transmissions at Ostranenie Festival in Dessau in 1997. Participating artists and institutions: Gerard Couty, Christian Groupner, Olivier Schulbaum, Alma Niett, Monika Glahn, Jacques Bigot, Christian Vanderborght, Antoin Vie, Vadim Fiškin, Borut Savski, Tom Demeyer, Jef Kalil, Heiko Koch, Francis, Katarina Pejović, Marko Košnik, Club Automatic, Hardware STEIM, KIEZ Cultural Centre and Egon March Institute.
Paparapapa, a series of performances and a communication project by Mike Hentz, Christian Vanderborght, Margrit Rieben, Martin Schiters, Miško Šuvaković, Bojan Merc, Jurij Krpan, Marko Košnik; that took place in Kapelica Gallery in 1998.
PA-RA, a multimedia theatre performance by Damjana Černe, Mateja Bučar, Dragana Cukovac, Margit Rieben, Dirk Bruinsma, Borut Kumperščak and Marko Košnik. It was premiered at Cankarjev dom in 1998.

Egon March Institute produced Desktop Cinema, a music performance with live video instrument by Margrit Rieben, Dirk Bruinsma, Marko Košnik in Kino Reitschule Bern, Slovenian Cinematheque, Pekarna Magdalena Network, 2000 and Theothea, a multimedia opera: Miško Šuvakovič, Margrit Rieben, Dirk Bruisnma, Ulrike Gabriel, Marko Košnik, Andreas Findeisen, Monika Glahn, at the symposia Theatre in South - eastern Europe, SKC Hall, Beograd 2001.

PARAHOUSEyt01 by parahouse12 on YouTube

Egon March Institute organised (concept and coordination: Marko Košnik, Katarina Pejović, Meta Štular, Monika Glahn, Urška Jurman, John Grzinich, Sabina Salamon) hEXPO - International Festival of Self Organising Cultural Forms, a synchronised action carried out by 15 co-producers and over 70 international guests. The three weeks lasting festival took place in Maribor: Kibla, Pekarna Magdalena Network, Mariborski radio Študent (MARŠ); Ljubljana: Metelkova, KUD France Prešeren Arts and Culture Association, Kapelica Gallery, Ljudmila, Slovenian Cinematheque, Radio Študent (RŠ); Koper: MKC Koper Youth and Culture Centre, PINA Primorje Information Atelier in 2000.

Jaap Blonk, Dirk Bruinsma and Marko Košnik trio had a performance at Overtoom 301 (joint production with Overtoom in 2002), Dutch Tour (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Nijmegen, Tilburg, produced by Jaap Blonk in 2003) and a performance at Roaratorio festival in Geneve (produced by Dirk Bruinsma in 2004).

Operabils and Ditopias

In the years 2004- 2011 Egon March Institute produced Marko Košnik's Operabils and Ditopias some of them in collaboration with other artists, for example with Barbara Thun in Klanggalerie Tube in München. Operabils are modules of media opera while Ditopias are a form of in situ interactive installations, the first one presented in Caen. Since then Košnik has created over 20 Operabils and Ditopias situated in Tirania, Brno, Istanbul, Helsinki, Rijeka, Maribor, Ljubljana and other generally European cities. Among the most important Operabils are The Missing Engine of Laputa (solo performance for Dokumenta Urba 2 in Kassel, 2006), Operabil Conspirare (at the opening ceremony in the Auditorium of the Berlin festival Transmediale 08. where Košnik performed with Stephen Kovats) and Operabil Kobe (with Barbara Thun and Masayuki Sumi in 2006). Marko Košnik gave a lecture about Operablis and Ditopias and presented documentation of project presentations in Trubar Literature House in September 2011.

Recent project: Electropera

Electropera, a travelling festival was a three-year project (2009-2011) of Egon March Institute in the context of X-OP network, an European platform for the creation of art that joins artists, researchers, operators, producers and cultural institutions. Egon March Institute joined and synchronised production of artists, operators and curators in a an umbrella project Electropera. In a form of a touring groups, artists could therefore include different places and present their work - performances, concerts, installations, screenings and exhibitions, symposiums and workshops on various venues where they also created site specific interventions and land-art works. Egon March Institute conducted 7 premiere acts and the final presentation of the Electropera. At the first act Parahouse 12 there were 20 artists participating. The performances, installations and presentation took place in Ullsteinhaus, Berlin in January 2009. The following acts took place in Turkey, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Finland and Austria.

The largest project was Act 7: Coding the Society that Egon March Institute co.produced with K6/4 Institute in June 2011. Cyberpipe hosted a symposium with many worldwide known lecturers and artists from all over the world. Among others there were Ben Patterson (USA) from the Fluxus movement, Tom Fuersnter (Austria) and Michael Saup (Germany) - former professors of ZKM in Karlsruhe, and Andreas Findeisen (Austria, Germany) who all presented radical research areas in contemporary art, while Irene Agrivine (Indonesia), Ferial Affif (Indonesia) and Serra Ozhan Yueksel (Turkey) presented development of artistic models in eastern Indonesia and Turkey. The symposium was simultaneously upgraded with a sound system and a video projection of the happening in Cyberpipe in the Cafe Metropol (at Kersnikova) which enabled parallel dialogues, monitoring and comments. The platform for live processing of text and graphic material was managed by Boštjan Čadež, Maja Smrekar and Luka Prinčič.

Performances and stage events were held in Club K4 where visitors could see Ben Patterson: Cloning Society - Recent Developments and Jaapa Blonka (Netherlands): dr. Voxoid's Next Move. Performance - symposium presented latests developments in economy, politics, technology, culture and art and marked the 25th anniversary of the Egon March Institute.

The conclusion of the Electropera took place in Maribor with the Operabil Relocation production. Marko Košnik and Irena Tomažin had an improvised performance with video instrument and voice.

External links

Egon March Institute website

Egon March Institute

Contents

History

Collaborations

Projects

Operabils and Ditopias

Recent project: Electropera

See also

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