Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, July 15 - August 22 1999

Workshop: July 6 - 15 The participating artists: Pierre Giner (Pariz), Maja Licul (Ljubljana), Valérie Mréjen (Pariz), Victorine Müller (Zürich), Tadej Pogačar (Ljubljana), Vreni Spieser (Zürich), Nika Špan (Düsseldorf, Ljubljana), Apolonija Šušteršič (Amsterdam, Ljubljana), Janja Vrabec (Ljubljana), Jun Yang (Dunaj) in Janja Žvegelj (Ljubljana). he exhibition and workshop, entitled it's comfy, trace the issues of comfort, leisure, and pleasure. The project represents an open working structure: it is not only oriented towards a final product (an exhibition, or an artefact) on the basis of some thematic proposal; rather, its mode of operation allows us to turn around or determine the questions raised. "Who doesn't want to have a comfortable life of pleasure? Is it not true that the entertainment culture is an undeniable part of the everyday? It has become a rule nowadays that we must choose from everything offered, and decide on something that suits and satisfies us the most. We can take several weeks of 'leisure' (even if related to exhausting 'trendy' sports), or enjoy as a matter of course a comfortable armchair, engrossed in entertainment programmes broadcast by the mass media. Our society of experience engenders the project of 'good' living, that is to say, the project of how to arrive at an experience. We all have divergent views and systems of comfy living, since we all experience it in different, individual ways. Comfy living, or leisure (if not grounded on coercion), seems to be a very popular but indeterminable human quality. Some of us actually enjoy the work we do!…" (adapted from invitation letter to the artists)

A project in collaboration with Ami Barak (Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier - French Regional Foundation for Contemporary Art), Harm Lux (Shed in Frauenfeld near Zürich) and Kathrin Rhomberg (Wiener Secession).