Petja Grafenauer Krnc: "Mythmaking as a colonisation tactic"
"Jasmina Cibic utilises systems which are already in place to create a moment which together with its contextual framework shapes the art work. The architectural frame of the Tobacco Museum in such a way becomes - together with all of its evidential history of the tobacco industry - a motif for the formulation of the project “Mythmaking as a colonisation tactic”."
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Matjaz Brulc: "Tourists Welcome or How the Myth Loses its Grounds", July 2007
"In spite of the fact that Slovenia as an independent state is coming of age, it is difficult to resist the feeling that its identity coordinates are remaining undefined to a certain degree. And if the truth reveals itself only through the gaze of the Other, then how one sees oneself is of a lesser importance. The objective logic, or what still remains of it, is the result of external judgement which functions independently from those in question. It is only when the outside gaze overlaps with the one which functions from within, that the collective longing is fulfilled. But at the same time, one can not disregard that the offering and the demanding gaze are on both sides being executed with the help of mutable ideological constructions. It is at this point that we meet the practice of Jasmina Cibic, who focuses her research onto the mechanisms, which under the umbrella term of ideology, define the characteristics and values of a certain space.
Cibic's research … exposes certain aspects of the tourist industry's functioning, which is based on the »supply and demand« factors of new and authentic experiences, where the knot of antagonism is forming exactly at the cross roads between the expected and the actual, between utopia and the real (or what remains of it)."
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Petja Grafenauer Krnc: "Tourists Welcome"
"The space can exist only within the framework of the social context, which creates it. With the artist’s intervention into the system such as an airport terminal, with the appropriation of fixed strategies of the system itself and at the same time with the insertion of the unexpected, the ruptures and perforations within which the ideology becomes visible are unveiled."
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Matjaz Brulc: “Forged Territories”, published in Polet (Delo), 15. 3. 2007
"[…] the artist’s work touches on the discrepancies between expectations and reality; the construction of apparently new experiences is addressed critically and sometimes with an ironical analysis of the mechanisms which construct and determine it. We can interpret these works as separate chapters of a narrative, whose development simulates the destructible nature of the functioning of “the industry of new experience”. "
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