À la Cart Performance Webshop open call: This one is on Mladi levi!

Photo: Toni Mlakar

It is your time to shine now! The Mladi levi festival in collaboration with Aksioma gives you an opportunity to order your very own version of the À la Cart Performance and become the co-creator of the show that will be executed within the Mladi levi festival between August 23 and 30 2015.

The rules of the open call are simple:
You can propose your own version of the À la Cart Performance until July 15 2015. A selection committee will review all the proposals and decide which one will be executed live at Mladi levi 2015. The chosen co-creator will be revealed during the À la Cart Performance at the Mladi levi festival.

HOW DO I ORDER A PERFORMANCE OF MY CHOICE?
1. Visit the www.a-la-cart.com website,
2. browse through the offer and choose the chapters you want to be seen at the festival AND/OR make a Custom Made Chapter,
3. drag them to the timeline and place an order.

IMPORTANT:
● your order must not exceed 1600 EUR in total,
● the maximum length of the performance should not exceed 60 min,
● when finishing your order, please include the special Mladi levi code in the Other Comments box: “MLADI LEVI”.

In 2014, Slovenian artists Nina Jan and Urša Sekirnik, opened a fully functional performance webshop (www.a-la-cart.com) in which they invite you to become a real art consumer. You can buy a performance through a webshop, you can customize it to your personal needs, you can even order a custom made performance chapter …  to be executed live!

What an absurd idea, you might think. But is it really so? Or do Jan and Sekirnik actually force us to look again at the conditions of contemporary performance production and ask us if we really believe that art, while being sold, is anything else than a consumer good? And that rather than ignoring this, they are looking for ways for their art practice to fight its own way to a bigger creative autonomy.

Conception and realization: Nina Jan, Urša Sekirnik
Web design: Maarten Janssen, Fabian Valkenberg (Janssen & Valkenberg)
Online shop programming: Quentin Drouet
Camera and editing: Momchil Alexiev
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Coproduction: KUD NUM, Center For Urban Culture Kino Šiška
In collaboration with: Bunker Ljubljana in the frame of Mladi levi festival
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana City Municipality, the Municipality of Škofja Loka, Muelle3, Centre Cultural Albareda, NFTA, Turist Farm Žgajnar

More information about the project: http://aksioma.org/a.la.cart/index.html

Open call (pdf 770 KB – to view the downloaded brochures you will need Acrobat Reader)