Tanja Lažetić, Nina Meško: The State of Things

Author: Tanja Lažetić, Nina Meško
Title: The State of Things
Year of Creation: 2004
Owner: Tanja Lažetić, Nina Meško
Work info: Video dance installation, video documentation
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Description of Work:
The State of Things, which is a part of the video dance project by the same name, features interviews with Slovenian dance producers, choreographers and theoreticians on their attitude towards their own work, contemporary dance art, their criteria and evaluation of artistic creation. The project was produced by City of Women Association and had its premiere at the 10th International Contemporary Arts Festival City of Women in Ljubljana.

Tanja Lažetić (1967)
Her work mainly features photography, video and the Internet projects. Most of the projects were concieved together with photographer Dejan Habicht.

She graduated in 1995 in Architecture at University of Ljubljana. She spent three months as artist-in-residence in New York and Vienna. She presents her work regularly all over Slovenia. She took part in group and individua exhibitions including in Modern Gallery Ljubljana(2005, 2006, 2000), in P74 Gallery in Ljubljana, at the City of Women festival in Ljubljana (2004), in Contemporary Art Gallery in Celje (2002) and in Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana (1997). In 2001 she was nominated for the international media award ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1995 she received the main award at the international designers’ competition in Trieste. She was artist-in-residence in Berlin, Vienna and New York.

More at: www2.arnes.si/guest/tlazet/

Nina Meško (1973)
Lives and works in Ljubljana. She was studying dance at numerous classes and workshops at home and abroad. She was on a one-year dance specialisation in various dance studios in New York (Movement Research, Dance Space, Merce Cunninghgam Studio) where she also presented her shorter works: Dixon Place, Judson Church, Joyce Soho. She collaborated as dancer with Sinja Ožbolt, Nataša Tovirac, Fatou Traore, Maja Milenović Workman, Gregor Kamnikar and with many others. The influence of visual arts is repeatedly present in all her author works: Watching Alice, 13 Hours in April, Crash-Course in Flying, Deep show, What a Feeling.