À la Cart: Donations archive

2015

The Archive of Donations project is an extension of the À la Cart Performance Webshop project A Chapter in Which We receive a Donation, in which the authors deal with the concept of support for art and artists by government institutions. Since the understanding of this support by both artists and government institutions is often linked to monetary support (i.e. if there is money, the state supports culture, if there is no money, there is no support), they ask how the notion of support could be expanded.

They are therefore asking the public and visitors to the exhibition to help them broaden their understanding of the concept of donation by making concrete suggestions (e.g. personal objects, contacts, gestures, expressions of support, etc.) to help them identify ways in which they can support the artist and his/her current work in a non-financial way, or to inspire future projects.

These donations are then archived and presented as part of the installation Archive of Donations, which can be commissioned as a stand-alone installation or as an accompanying programme to a commissioned performance of À la Cart Performance.

Idea and realization: Nina Jan and Urša Sekirnik
Production: KUD NUM
Supported by: the Municipality of Škofja Loka, Žgajnar Tourist Farm

Past implementations:

Cankarjev dom, Vrhnika, 2022

At the Red Oyster, December 2021
Another Sea, Rijeka, 2015
Pop up exhibition, Town Square, Škofja Loka, 2016