Ljubljana
MGML
Aleksandra Domanović
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Aleksandra Domanović

19:30

15. 9. 2011–7. 10. 2011

Taking its title from the time slot of the evening television news programs in the former Yugoslavia, Domanović’s project "19:30" is an anthology of the newscasts’ titles and theme tunes and an emerging collection of their commissioned remixes, edits, and new versions. For the project, musical themes from the first televised Yugoslavian news broadcast in 1958 up to the present were taken from national state-owned television stations.

Taking its title from the time slot of the evening television news programs in the former Yugoslavia, Domanović’s project "19:30" is an anthology of the newscasts’ titles and theme tunes and an emerging collection of their commissioned remixes, edits, and new versions. The work was begun in 2010; Domanović traveled the former republics of Yugoslavia, visiting the television networks and national archives of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia. She invited the collaboration of electronic dance music DJs, who used the collected material as samples and mixed it in their music.

For the project, musical themes from the first televised Yugoslavian news broadcast in 1958 up to the present were taken from national state-owned television stations. As institutions, these public stations are of particular cultural and national importance and have managed to sustain their presence in the collective consciousness, even after the arrival of private television following the fall of the socialist regime. This is in part a result of the political situation and economic recession in the late 1980s, culminating in the war in 1991, which led to a surge of interest in evening television news. Watching the evening news became a part of the daily routine, a must that determined the rhythm of life in the evenings. The coded nature of the daily repeated music themes became deeply embedded in the national memory and part of the collective memory of several generations of viewers.

The project juxtaposes the musical, historical, and psychological values of two different collective experiences: watching the evening news, which drew masses of people of all nationalities in former Yugoslavia in front of their television sets at 7:30 pm every day, and the power electronic dance music had in the same territory to bring people together, engendering a feeling of distance to the individual nationalistic views among the ravers in the 1990s and creating a platform for tolerance and coexistence.

The "19:30" project can take on various forms. In a gallery setting it is presented as a two-channel video installation of a chronological anthology and shots of rave parties, while on the Web it is presented as an ongoing archive of remixes, video and audio themes, various links, and other research material. 

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Production: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaArtist: Aleksandra DomanovićDesign: Ajdin BašićInstallation photos: Matevž Paternoster / MGMLRealisation of the exhibition: Technical Service MGMLThe exhibition was made possible by: City of Ljubljana, Department for CultureDonator: Tobačna Ljubljana, d.d.

Cultural Centre Tobačna 001

Tobačna ulica 1
1000 Ljubljana

E kc.tobacna001@mgml.si

Information and reservations:
T +386 1 24 12 500
T +386 1 24 12 506
E prijava@mgml.si

Exhibition space is open according to exhibitions:
Tuesday–Friday: 11:00–19:00
Monday, Saturday, Sunday: Closed

Free entry.


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