Mediterranea 20: Biennial of Young Artists – full day programme Saturday, 31 May

We warmly welcome you to Mediterranea 20 - the Biennale of Young Artists, which will bring together more than 94 young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

Programme:

12:00 
Open Forum by Young Artists | Art as Space for Decisions – Who Decides?
This temporary, critical and critical platform brings together selected practitioners, chosen through an open call,  as moderators – to explore pressing questions on methodology, technology, ecology, social spaces, and institutional critique. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion!
City Hall, The Municipality Building of Nova Gorica 
Trg Edvarda Kardelja 1, 5000 Nova Gorica

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15:45 – 16:30
Join us in front of EPIC center for a collective walk through the artworks in public spaces (the Tunnel, Trainstation and Transalpina square). 
EPIC center
Trg Evrope/Piazza della Transalpina, Nova Gorica
Kolodvorska pot 10, 5000 Nova Gorica

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18:00 
Mediterranea 20 in Vipava
Introduction by the Biennale curators, Tia Čiček and Misal Adnan Yıldız

University of Nova Gorica, Vipava
Glavni trg 8, 5271 Vipava

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18.00 - 20.00
(Kjell) Rasmus Arvidsson, Encounter, performance
The artist works with sculpture, performance, and text, creating site-responsive and conceptual pieces that explore history, narration, and politics. In "Encounter," he writes a text on a site with locally collected sand, symbolising the cycle of life and death, in an attempt to "heal" the space – a poignant gesture referencing a bridge in Stockholm associated with tragic loss.
University of Nova Gorica, Vipava

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18:15 – 20:00
Eda Sutunc, Kinship Care Community, open ended workshop 
Kinship Care Community is a speculative proposal and conceptual art project that reimagines kinship as a form of resistance in the Anthropocene. 
You are warmly invited to participate in the workshop.
University of Nova Gorica, Vipava

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18:45 - 19.00
Alice Minervini, 𝓟𝓪𝓴𝓴𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓪 𝓫𝔂 𝓟𝓪𝓴𝓴𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓪'𝓼 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼, installation, artist book and public reading
The artist explores traditional Calabrian "pacchiana" costumes, uncovering patriarchal notions of femininity and class. Her installation creates an archive of "girlie" ephemera, reflecting on Southern diaspora, aesthetics, and identity.
University of Nova Gorica, Vipava

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19:15
Dalia Khalife, Augmented, Disruptive Tabbouleh Making – Unmaking, durational food performance
In Augmented, Disruptive Tabbouleh Making – Unmaking, the artist creates a durational performance exploring food's cultural tensions. The artist prepares a large batch of tabbouleh, a quintessential Lebanese dish, while leading workshops and discussions on food's fetishisation, appropriation, and digitalisation.
University of Nova Gorica, Vipava

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19:45
Iliada Charalambous & Afrang Malekian, The Taste of Pomegranate, performance installation
The pomegranate is a fruit of life, death, and rebirth. In the performance The Taste of Pomegranate, participants are invited to peel and deseed pomegranates on top of a pomegranate-illustrated tablecloth with printed stories of myths and migration about this precious fruit, spanning from Cyprus to an airport in Tehran, en route to Scandinavia. With sticky hands and red stains of pomegranates spread across the tablecloth, the seeds of stories pass through the bodies of different people and reach further and wider-leaving traces… 

You are warmly invited to participate in the performance.

University of Nova Gorica, Vipava