NEW EDGE / SPRING 2015 #03 PROMISING / VISION / FASHION / ALTERNATIVE / CULTURE NEW EDGE 2 #03 - NEWEDGE NEW EDGE #03 # 03 / NEW EDGE / SPRING 2015 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Anja Korošec E info@newedgemagazine.com WEB: http://newedgemagazine.com/ COVER PHOTO Jaka Vinšek LAYOUT DESIGN Anja Korošec #03 - NEWEDGE 3 NEW EDGE SPRING. As the Spring is blooming and expanding, we started to connect to each other in new ways, which means also through social media. Since New Edge Magazine joined Facebook, our new issue has changed as a result, utilising new possibilities this medium offers us:we are now open to collaborate with new people that will contact us and connect with us on this social network. We are really focused on that and we will continue to work in this new direction. You can find us, connect with us and like us on: https://www.facebook.com/ newedgemagazine Welcome to the third issue of New Edge magazine. This is a free magazine that promotes, and draws attention to, all the good things in our environment. Thank you for staying with us. —Anja Korošec 4 #03 - NEWEDGE CONTENT CONTENTS SPRING 2015 Rollerblading-Hrvoje Curie Video ArtistValerie Wolf Gang Photography-Jan Pirnat Idea-EHO. Editorial -OVERWHELMED, BROOKLYN BABY 1 22-33 ALTERNATIVE Fashion - LJFW Animation - Visoška Kronika Version 1.0 CULTURE Music - Astrid Kljun Bad Days - DOUM Stop Motion- Noggin Art - DOUM Teater - Pocket Teater Studio 34 38 S I NBSoim 40 DOUM #03 - NEWEDGE 5 PROMISING ROLLERBLADING H RVOJ E ČURIČ ó PROMISING How did you get involved with rollerblading? I started rollerblading with ordinary rollerblades, and that looked very embarrassing at the beginning, because I was learning at home, where I crashed into the fridge, like I was the worst rollerblader. Then, when I already learned some basics, I started to work on tricks with ordinary blades and I started jumping over the fences. Soon after I got the skates, they have just built a new skate park in Celje, so I was able to test there all my new tricks. At first, I just wanted to skate, but when I was skating, I soon began looking for new and different challenges, like jumping over the stairs, jumping on the edges, I didn't want to ride just straight. So I also started to get to know the rollerblading culture through friends, and we were lending each other videotapes, which I was watching 3 times a day and from then on I am still rollerblading to this day. What types of rollerblading do we know? There are several different names for different types of rollerskating and rollerblading, the most widespread is the Freestyle rollerblading, and this is the one I am doing myself. Then we know In-line Hockey skating, aggressive in-line skating, acrobatic skating and some more. The difference between rollerskating and rollerblading is that the skating is on roller skates, and blad-ing is on rollerblades, where all the wheels are in one line. The term aggressive in-line skating describes skating with turns, jumps, flips and a lot of adrenaline. For myself, I say I am simply a roller-blader and I do not want to be defined by category names, given to us by others. How did you move from skating as a hobby to serious sport competitions? In the early stages my parents were driving me to the competitions, although with a heavy heart - but they understood this as encouragement and they supported me. Then I took a two year pause from competitive rollerblading, since I lost contact with other rollerbladers. But all that changed when I met people from skating club Urban Roof and so I started to competitivelly rollerblade again, and now I also work there. I also took part in various local Slovenian rollerblading competitions where I have always ranked among the top three. My major achievement was classification into semi-finals in the Netherlands, where I competed with 300 best rollerbladers in the world. You also teach others? I run courses of acrobatic rollerblading, where I train kids, I show them the basics and I direct them, teach them how to fall ... I train them in a skating club called "Urban Roof" in Ljubljana. We are working hard to promote this sport and try to attract as many people as possible, to socialize with us, to have fun, and to be creative, and we also take care of our body in the process. Socializing is particularly important, since #03 - NEWEDGE it gives you psychological strength to persevere, which is necessary in this sport: namely, when you imagine some trick, you have to work very hard to achieve it and work it through. It should be like that with all the things. And this is most easily with the help of entertainment. I myself, when I teach, don't want to be too strict, but it is still necessary to have some authority. We provide a safe environment where children learn some basics of this sport, they are encouraged to come to us on their own, not only on the training session, but also to feel a desire for rollerblading on their own, spontaneously. It's important that they don't see this as an obligation, and that they can also watch us grownups how we are doing this sport, which can serve as additional motivation for them. I think we are slowly progressing and this sport is developing and maybe it is for the best to be done this way: to slowly build good foundations for this sport, for it to be more respected. What differentiates you from others? I have a long mileage and I'm trying to develop my own style, so that my tricks really look smooth. People say that I look like a ''ballerina'', which means that I have soft ride, and my movement looks like a sophisticated trick. Which requires a lot of effort and repetition. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so when I start something, it must be done perfectly, but I also take that as a drive that motivates me, of course within some healthy boundaries. Where do you see yourself in the future? Definitely on rollerblades, but also in chemistry. I have studied chemistry and it is my second passion and I would like to build some product in that field, but rollerblading will always come first. What is your motto? That's simple: Do what you like, like what you do! > PROMISING VIDEO ARTIST VALERIE http://valeriewolfgang.com/ http://portfolio-valeriewolfgang.com/ What are you currently working on? I am currently in Portugal, I came here within the framework of student exchange at a Masters program at the School of Arts at University of Nova Gorica, where I'm working on a project called "Artist abroad". I explore how environment and change of environment impacts and influences artistic creation. Like when you go for a while somewhere else, in some artistic residence. I am also doing a video collection of poems, which will be presented on 14th of April in the Portuguese Center of the Arts. From 2012 on, I am self-employed in the cultural field as a video artist, and I want to continue in this direction. In December I am having a solo exhibition in the Center of Contemporary Art in Montenegro and in October I go for one month to the artistic residence in Vienna. When did your love for video begin? When I was a little girl, my father had a camera and filmed all the family matters, so I played with this camera too, because I thought it was very fascinating what things you can record on it, although my father was a little mad at me since I didn't want to record the family affairs but went outside and filmed our neighbor's dog, so than he was kidding me why I record dog's buttocks. However, I found it very fascinating how film went from camera to tape and later on the screen. So we later also got a smaller camera that I had always with me in school and with which I filmed some funny sketches and various presentations for our prom. Since then I've always been interested in video and photography, and I decided to countinue with that and I went to High School for Design. After high school I went to School of Arts at University of Nova Gorica, majoring in digital arts and practice, where I studied video and specialised on video films. In the third year I went on student exchange to Prague at the film academy FAMU, majoring in directing, where I also finished the studies. I continued to the second stage, because I became interested in experimental 8 #03 - NEWEDGE PROMISING film, video installations and in new modern developments in that area. So now I am in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Projects? I want to point out my video installation "Freedom 2.0", that I made in artistic residency in Singapore. This was the first artistic residence, where I was far away from Slovenia. The purpose of the trip was to create a project, so in these 3 weeks I was looking for different things that inspired me and I realized that this is a kind of a country where otherwise everything looks nice and clean, but behind this, there is a lot of restrictions and prohibitions, so it is prohibited to walk in certain areas and throw a bubble gum on the floor, etc. It inspired me that I filmed a video about finding personal freedom or about how much we actually really are free, because we are so limited with various opening hours and so on. It was an exhibition in a gallery on Institute for Contemporary Art in Singapore. Than I had solo exhibition in the gallery "Inkubator" in Zagreb, which received a good response from the public. For the first time, I have combined different worlds, where I put on display videos that I filmed in Paris. The name of exhibition was: "Looking out through the window" and was set up in such a way that videos were projected on gallery walls and frames were put around the projected images, so that it appeared as if one were looking out through a window - it seemed as if, while you are in the center of Zagreb, you are looking out through the window and see Paris. Here I have combined different worlds. I also exhibited in Serbia, Austria, Singapore, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Croatia, USA, Portugal, Montenegro, etc. And I have received several awards, including recently in Thailand the "Top Pick Jury Award" for the video "A Message to Humanity", and many similar awards and nominations such as: Artward Award, Award of the Academy of Arts Rijeka, DigitalBigScreen, IRF Film Fest, Stuttgart Filmwinter, ESSL Art Award, Festival of Independent film, etc. Where do you see yourself in the future? Somehow, I want to settle down, but I always make plans in such a way that I continue traveling around. Whenever I think I'll find a steady or permanent job, it happens that I get some half-yearly arrangement abroad. So that I don't know where I am going to end up. I have a desire to go to Asia. I leave myself open possibilies. And I will always have a camera in hand. How do you compare Slovenian environment with foreign ones? In Slovenia, the title of "video artist" is unfortunately not established as it is in the rest of the world. We have only the title of "video maker" ("videast") and this produces an unsettling feeling, because you, as well as others, don't know if you are a director or a painter. Video in general is not as commercially popular in our country as it is abroad, and so such video events that are always advertised abroad, are not even mentioned here. What differentiates you from others? I am still developing my artistic expression and in my videos I am trying to stay '' RAW ''. When I am editing my videos, I try to use an image that looks genuine, with true colors, so that you can feel things as if they were before. I also use clean sounds, without any gadgets, and I add music at the end of editing and don't do my work on the basis of, or influence from, the music that video includes. I'm trying to edit my videos visually and with feeling. I like to combine different worlds, touch the political themes and topical issues and I want to offer a veiled challenge to established views. I am fascinated by the contrast between nature and the city, between civilization and authenticity that is in all of us. Although it is already lost to a large degree, because we are all enclosed in our concrete box. What is your motto? You can do everything, if you want to. People forget the second part of this motto, because if you decide that you want to do something, you will do it. This is the only thing that will drive you on. ™ Tbi bomb enplodis, the cellar falls on him, LA VUE A TRAVERS LA FENETRE video installation. Gallery Inkubator, Zagreb PROMISING IG #03 - NEWEDGE When did you get involved with photography? It all started when my brother got a camera, I used to play with it, because it was interesting to me, and I photographed flowers and because I'm from the village, I photographed a variety of natural motives. Later I accidentally lost his camera on vacations, and so, since I had to buy him a new one, but he didn't need it anymore, I decided that I can buy it for myself and so it all began. At the end of elementary school, I decided to go to photography class at design high school, where I regularly photographed, then after that tragical half a year at the hospital, I started to photograph even more seriously. I photographed motifs around me, and since I live in a natural environment, that means primarily natural and environment motifs. I quickly started to also photograph sports, because me and my brother were riding the bike, and other motifs around me. I also photograph portraits of people, weddings, fashion events and different things that help me to search for my inner expression and develop my photographing style. What are the projects you are working on? I recently photographed a professional skater Timotej Lampe Ignjic, whom I met in a skating club "Urban Roof", where we arranged our further collaboration, and later it happened that even "Burn", energy-drink manufacturer that represents him, published my photography of him on Burn's website. (see picture above) How did your disease changed your life? 1 found out about my diagnosis when I was 2 months old, so I don't even remember that. I remember that I have always had to eat pills and inhale, and to do something else than my brothers and colleagues, and over the years I realized what this is all about. Photography has helped me as a solution and it is a big part of my life. I also do sports and I always keep myself busy. Photography has taken larger part in my life than any other activity, as for me, it represents such an activity in which you can concentrate and it occupies all your energy. With it, you can distance yourself from other things and you can forget about your worries. It motivates me to do new things, because it occupies all my time and you can always explore new things and learn something more. What are your plans for the future? I have plans for the next year to try some workshop abroad. I want to go wherever they will want me there. I love warm places, although cold places tend to be fine as well. I would also like to photograph surfers, or other motifs in the water because I like to be close to the sea, although it is also really nice in the mountains. I would like to live from photography, I am able to earn money with it, but I still have to get the right people to take notice of me. I would like to pay even more serious attention to photography, and then we'll see what happens. I am most looking forward to shooting extreme sports, landscapes and people in general. What differentiates you from others? I try to keep my own style, I want to build on myself and my own work. In every photography I am trying to catch that special moment, its energy, that which represents something more, spontaneity of the moment. What is your motto? My tattoo says: Etre et Durer", which means: "To Be and to Last", which means that you should be doing things in the long run, trying not to harm yourself and that you're doing things your way on a solid foundation.™ #03 - NEWEDGE 11 VISION EHO. CENTER FOR URBAN CULTURE placed in the Gothic church. St. Rupert's church is one of the most beautiful Slovenian architectural buildings. The challenge for the architect was to design a space that keeps the powerful energy, unique atmosphere and acoustic of the original structure, and adds new possibilities to the space so it will attract bigger, more diverse audiences. The church now becomes a multifunctional space that can host variety of events like concerts, fashion shows, exhibitions, performances... and can also be transformed into a night club. The goal was to preserve as much of the original space and its beauty as possible, all new elements are integrated with minimal interference into the old shell. Everything new is made of modern materials like glass and dark steel, so that it is perfectly clear, what was there before and what is added to the space with the refurbishment. Functional scheme of the building is reversed: the main entrance is now through the bell tower, so visitors can enter through the most visible and most beautiful façade, allowing all three floors of the tower that were private before, to be accessible to the public. Receiving space leads into the transitional space with a bar and sitting area, that transitions to the hall. The uniqueness of the main area are two stages, bigger main stage on the ground floor and smaller stage, made out of glass, that floats over the audience from the first floor. There is also a glass gallery/loggia placed between the walls of the presbytery, that is accessible from VIP room on the first floor of the bell tower. All that allows events to happen in two levels and gives the Center many different possibilities.— 12 #03 - NEWEDGE VISION 5S Oigafacesr P Karmen Kari Nebec, Activa EARRINGS Olgafacesrok Jumper Karmen Koren Skirt Valentina Barbaric, activator FASHION FASHION w r\ r\ l i kl PHOTO Jaka Vinšek cREATIVE DIREcTOR Anja Korošec STYLING Anja Korošec MODEL Lea Mihevc @ RED model managemnet NYc LOcATION AND SPECIAL Thanks Jaka Vinšek #03 - NEWEDGE 23 FASHION #03 - NEWEDGE 25 FASHION Sb— #03 - NEWEDGE 27 FASHION #03 - NEWEDGE 31 FASHION i EXIT | DRESS Joe Fresh 32 #03 - NEWEDGE ALTERNATIVE FASHION WEEK / LJFW 34 #03 - NEWEDGE ALTERNATIVE #03 - NEWEDGE 35 ALTERNATIVE Toni Mlakar ANIMATION VISOŠKA KRONIKA Version 1.0 "Visoska Kronika Version 1.0" got its name from the fact that it is a first version of this project that I hope will get expanded into a longer second version or even an animated feature film. This is just the beginning, so animation Version 1.0 takes only 5 minutes, in which it presents a summary of the story. I am taking this project as a challenge, because I am doing all the animation work by myself and I'm interested in how it will turn out and I will learn a lot in the process. I am doing animation work from elementary school on and this work gives me great plasure. This is an animation on which I work by myself so the work is quite time consuming, in the future I wish I would be able to have more illustrators on the team, so the work will ber distributed among them. I started the project in such a way that I suggested the idea myself. I wanted to animate Skofja Loka fairy tales. Since there are many stories about Skofja Loka, it appeared to me that it would be nice, if each of them would have, they don't have its own visual representation, an animated cartoon. At the local castle's museum they heard about my idea and they seemed to like it. They said to me that they can pay me through their institution to do one animation or animated short film. I thought I would animate some short story, but Jana Fojkar, who is working on Loka Castle, proposed to me to do Visoska Kronika, because the school and nursery children who listen to fairy-tales in the castle, find this story the least memorable. Castle Museum director Jana Mlakar was excited about the idea and so I decided to do this animation, but not in a most basic way, where one image follows another, but a little better, advanced animation of the story. And this is also the reason why this work is taking so much time. The hardest part at the begining of my work was to produce the scenario and visual representations of the story and its main characters from scratch. Later, when you have all the characters done and you just animate them, things moved much faster. I drew directly on the computer, from first sketch to the end. Each character needs a lot of images just to define how his mouth or eyes are moving. The animation will be done and presented as integral part of Skofja Loka Castle Museum, for the children who come to the castle, to listen there to fairy tales and historical stories. First they will watch this cartoon animation of the story and will be later able to recognize elements from the story, when they will see them in the museum as exponats, for example a box and a room from the story: they will remember the scene from cartoon animation: "Wow, this was where they cut his finger off!" With this animation I want to bring this story closer to children, so that they could understand it better. I want to send this animation to an RTV call for applications and apply to get a funding, with which I could get more illustrators on the project team and we could make an animated movie or feature film together. If there were more of us, we could work faster. I would be animating, and other illustrators would take care of the characters and background. Even characters could be better developed through animation with such a team. Version 1.0 is a brief summary of the whole book, abridged story in 5 minutes. Later, I predict it would take us three years of work with computers to make an animated movie, because the work on computers is much faster than in the past and mistakes can be quickly reversed. I love working on such projects and I like to have the freedom at my work. — A;»* w^tL zMLrr É 1 "t U 1 JL 36 #03 - NEWEDGE CULTURE 1 H F 1 ¥, ft km 7 h * \ t ! * % ' 1 MUSIC ASTRID KUUN I'm working on a project called ARTDICTION, which means an "addiction to art". It is a nickname for my performance and it all started when I was part of an art event, which was an exhibition of paintings, where I sang and played the harp and worked with different people. This gave me the desire to connect more art forms into a single, unified art event myself. I developed this idea further and it has expanded into an obsession with art and violence: I proposed that we could solve our problems with art. We could realise this idea in such a way that we would take some horrifying event and take it to the streets and present it with the help of choreography to the people. Later I decided to produce videos that would be played and would be connected with other arts in some live series of events as part of my singing and a manifesto, which would tell the world that there are many problems around us, where something has to be changed, although this is not an easy thing to do. I would like to communicate the message about what is happening around us, for people to at least become aware of the cruelty around us. I would use modern choreography and at the beginning of the video I would clearly present where, when and how some horrible rape or tragedy happened, which would be followed by an inscription: THIS IS NOT OK. Art is a medium of communication that can declare and reveal that something that is going on around us is not OK and it can also influence us to solve it. Project is still in its infancy, so I will take the time to develop it to the state that it will be convincig to the public, as it should be. u s tj to TO c 0 w