20/12/2011
Close Encounters During The Solstice
Klub K4, Ljubljana
The event is an introduction to the authorial project by Maja Smrekar which the author will launch as an autonomous exhibition entitled "History Of The Future" at Aksioma Project Space on 10 January 2012.
DJ: House Wife
VJ: Delta Nu
- How would love change if we lived to be 500?
- If you could travel back in time and revise decisions, would you?
- What if you could confront, talk to, or kill God?
- What if Nazi sympathisers in the US had won the 1940 elections?
For nerds:
To the title of the event, which will transpire within the temporal frame of midwinter (winter solstice), we added a trashy subtitle, which befits the event’s theme and which is derived from the cult movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The title of the latter, which has become a common expression in popular discourses, was invented by ufologist J. Allen Hynek (who actually appears in the movie!!!) to describe close encounters between people of the Earth and species from outer space.
For geeks:
We will walk through the audio-visual landscape of the history of musical and filmic references of the science-fiction genre; hence, the recommended dress code: It´s time to dress SCI-FI and start your UFO!
For dorks:
La Charcuterie mécanique, Le voyage dans la lune, 20 000 lieues sous les mers, The Airship Destroyer, Verdens Undergang, Himmelskibet, Holger-Madsen, The First Men in the Moon, L'uomo meccanico, Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Black Oxen, Ρaris qυi dοrt, Aelita, Luch Smerti , The Lost World, Metropolis, Frau im Mond, Just Imagine , La Fin du monde, Island of Lost Souls , The Invisible Man, The Tunnel, Der Herr der Welt, Aerograd, The Invisible Ray, Buck Rogers, Dr. Cyclops, The Invisible Woman , Man-Made Monster, The Invisible Man's Revenge, The Lady and the Monster, The Man in Half Moon Street, The Purple Monster Strikes, Counterblast, Krakatit, The Fountainhead, The Day the Earth Stood Still , When Worlds Collide, War of the Worlds , HaHasIt Came From Outer Space, Them!, This Island Earth , Earth vs The Flying Saucers, Forbidden Planet , Invasion of the Body Snatchers , Gojira, Incredible Shrinking Man, Nebo zovyot, The Timemachine, Mothra, La Jetée, The Day of the Triffids, Alphaville, Fahrenheit 451, Quatermass and the Pit , 2001: A Space Odyssey , Planet of the Apes , Doppelgänger , THX 1138, A Clockwork Orange, Solaris , Silent Running , Soylent Green , Dark Star, A Boy and his Dog, Alien , Logan’s Run, Alien , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Stalker, Quintet , Videodrome, Dune , Repo Man , Nineteen Eighty-Four, Enemy Mine , Mad Max, Brazil, The Quiet Earth, The Terminator , Kin-dza-dza! , Akira, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Total Recall, Delicatessen , Until the End of the World , Kôkaku kidôtai, Twelve Monkeys, Johnny Mnemonic , Strange Days , Mars Attacks! , The Fifth Element , Starship Troopers , Gattaca, The Matrix, I.K.U. , Donnie Darko, A.I. Artificial Intelligence , Vanilla Sky , Avalon, Equilibrium , Minority Report, Le Temps du Loup, Primer, Æon Flux , Children of Men, Papurika, Avatar
DRESS CODE: SCI / FI
The science-fiction genre always explores broader socio-anthropological topics, which is why it makes sense to organise a pop derivative of the project entitled “Close Encounters During The Solstice” in a club environment, as an event that enables an alternative immersion into the (pop)culture of audio-visual contents related to the theme of the project “History Of The Future”. The establishment of the individual’s identification with the sci-fi genre – by means of signifiers that designate characters from famous (and less famous) sci-fi texts – in this case becomes key only through the luddite action of the club dress code.
While the object on display at the gallery is an integral part of the project, the club event is its derivative!
Opening: december 21th, 9pm
Klub K4
Kersnikova, 4 - Ljubljana
Hours: 9pm-02am
Admission: 3 €