Movement for Public Speech
2015 - 2019
Stairs with a stage, platform to produce electricity by moving, citizens reading speeches, poetry and performances
Maribor (2015, 2016), Ljubljana (2016, 2019), Kočevje(2017), Strasbourg (2017), Feldbach (2018)
Movement for Public Speech is a long-term project that temporarily occupies a public space in an urban environment and encourages participants to communicate and take joint action. The essential constitutive element of this interactive kinetic temporary public sculpture is movement, which in a completely ecological way, by physically driving the wheels, produces electricity and enables the microphone on the podium to function. Energy producers and speakers, and last but not least, also listeners, are in constant interaction, because without each other they are not heard or listened to.
The exhibition is thus a kind of occasion for presenting the book of recording and evaluation of the artistic project, which had its premiere presentation in Maribor, and the last one in Ljubljana, as part of a series of events before the opening of the Sugar Factory - CUKRARNA.
The exhibition Polonca Lovšin Movement for Public Speech in Gallery 001 in 2020 was presenting all seven stages of the projects. A book with the same title was published by Museum and galleries of Ljubljana which presents all implementations of the project are presented in chronological order, with introductory texts by Urška Jurman and Helen Stratford, with photographic material, contributions in the form of lists of program points and participants, as well as songs and the content of the performers' recitals
Movement for Public Speech / Freedom (2015, 2016) Trg svobode, Maribor (3 days), Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor(6 hours) Around 100 of participants, poets, students of philosophy, dancers, drummers, citizens, actors.
Movement for Public Speech / I Follow Her Without Words(Pride, Ljubljana 2016)
Novi trg, Ljubljana, 6 hours 30 poets and translators reading the anthology of contemporary European lesbian poetry titled I Follow Her Without Words.
Movement for Public Speech / Kočevje-YEAH, 2017
Movement for Public Speech / Freedom, Strasbourg, 2017 Apollonia garden, Strasbourg, 6 hours 30-50 participants invited by Apollonia
Movement for Public Speech / At Home, Feldbach, 2018 Square of Europe, Feldbach, 2 hours 20 participants of German course language and guest slam poet Syrian poet Omar Khir Alanam.
Movement for Public Speech / Everyones’s Land, Ljubljana, 2019 Community garden, Beyond a Construction Site, 2 hours Around 20 speakers: Slam poets and writers/poets selected based on an open call.
Movement for Public Speech / Where is This World Turning?, Ljubljana, 2019 CUKRARNA and Kreaton of Dom Ivan Cankar 200 high school students from the neighborhood of Poljane, where the new cultural space CUKRARNA is set up.
Photographs above: Jure Kirbiš (UGM), XENOS, Bojan Brajkovič
Photographs below: Toni Poljanec, Neža Knez, Apolonia
