Marko Kosnik, Multimediakünstler, Ljubljana
Marko Kosnik (1961, Slovenia, multi media artist) wrote his first artistic manifesto for the group Junajtit Adis during the service to Yugoslav army in Monte Negro, 1981. The same year he joined Laibach, helping to shape the early concepts and interviews for the group of which he was an active member till 1983. In 1985 he coined the concept for the group Cavis Negra, with a goal to develop the means for synchronized actions in interdisciplinary projects. The same goals transformed into Egon March Institute (1986), a production unit and conceptual framework for interdisciplinary works.
1986 - 89 he was creating sound installations, composing music for performance, theatre and dance productions. With Fusnet Association he produced Bellum Contra Solem, an outdoor urban spectacle, performed at the border city of Nova Gorica, 1991. 1992 - 97 he was producing his regular radio show "Egon March Institute presents ..." at Radio Student), leading finally to creative web-casting of Ministry of Experiment, a public access net-cast platform (1997 - 2000). This way he continued tradition which he started with communication platform Piazzeta Ljubljana for Van Gogh Tv in 1992, till the largest networked performance he produced yet, hEXPO (festival of self-organizing cultural forms, Maribor - Ljubljana - Koper, 2000), with 70 international guests performing and lecturing live and online for three weeks in three cities, founding Slovene cultural digital platform.
Marko Kosnik's most important performances he produced, directed and contributed either as composer, programmer, live video instrumentalist and/or performer are: The Thing (premiered in Hamburg 1991), Membrane 2 (premiered in Bauhaus Dessau 1993), CUKRARNA (premiered at Mediennbienale Leipzig 1994), PARAHOUSE (Bauhaus Dessau 1997), A.B.SENCE (Cankarjev dom 1996, Ljubljana, New Moves, Glasgow 1997), a theatre piece for six performers PA-RA (Cankarjev dom 1998), DESKTOP CINEMA (premiered at Reitschule Bern 2000). THEOTHEA (premiered in SKC Beograd 2001).
Since 2001 Kosnik' orients towards solo works: field media research, video instrumentalism, installations and performances.
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The missing Engine of Laputa
A short resume on the topics of Laputa and The Engine from Gulliver's travels, Part 3: A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan - www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/bk3/chap3-5.html :
Laputa is a flying island. It travels above the earth to supervise the countries of the empire. Citizens of Laputa can overview the world while no else can disturb their position. If somebody on the ground is rebelling against Laputa, he will be bombarded by rocks that are easily thrown from the flying ground.
The Engine is a device for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations, as developed at Academy of Lagado. The project should make it possible even for the most ignorant person to write books in all the humanistic fields without the least assistance from a genius or laborious studies, all this at a reasonable charge and little bodily engagement. Out of permutations of all the words of the language it will be possible to give the world a complete body of all Arts and Sciences.
In his new performance lecture, prepared for Documenta Urbana on the topics of Inversion of the space, Marko Kosnik is looking at imagination as a topographic dimension, emerging on the border of visible and invisible. To make the invisible visible we ought to change places, not only to zoom into the unknown from close, but as well to gain the distance towards the known, the predetermined. How does the global mapping of imagination influence production of the difference, needed for a shift in a view? Can an established cultural view still find a challenge in the far away exoticism before submitting it to the one and only standard, the view offered form flying island of Laputa or from the Engine of Google Earth?
