Concept

Cirkulacija 2 at Sajeta 2009 were: Stefan Doepner, Boštjan Leskovšek, Borut Savski, Ksenija Čerče, Miha Tomšič, Milan Kristl, Majda Gregorič, Bojan Andjelković and special guest Bogdana Herman.

Prototype 11 series of events is introducing the topics of self-organization, self-production, anti-hierarchical social structuring, principles of re-invention, international collaboration and deepening of networking, affirming the broader understanding of "open-source-code”, "do-it-yourself”, "creative-commons” principles and looking into term "techno-progressivism” - as opposed to technofobia and technofilia stands.

Cirkulacija 2 is an art and social initiative bringing together the fields and practices of contemporary art activities. It is defined as an interdisciplinary station of contemporary technology related art production carrying into effect both the production and the presentation of contemporary art. It is a model ("a prototype”) bound to transgress the inherently conventional (”hard-coded”) museum & gallery practices of art presentations. Instead of exhibitions it promotes live social events ("happenings”) and tries to maintain an idea of art and discourse as alive and moving.

The question of a collective dynamics is at the root of Cirkulacija 2 events. How does a group of
individualistic, well-formed international artists and curators of different specialties share and create the various aspects of "common grounds/ space/ sense”? Only intelligent behavior ("the sense”) provides the answer and as such it is an anti-hierarchical social experiment.

In year 2009 three events were planned and performed:

- a 6 days' technology workshops and artistic production at Sajeta festival of contemporary music (Tolmin /
Slovenia) - July 27th to August 1st, 2009
- a 6 days' technology workshops and artistic production at Netart Community Convention 2009 at
MedienKunstLabor in KunstHaus Graz (Austria) -– November 24th to 29th, 2009
- post-production: a one-day event on December 1st, 2009 at Viba studios in Ljubljana

The production of Prototype 11 series was made possible with the financial help of Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia.