The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 5 - Jasmina Cibic

In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work. In the fifth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Slovenian artist and filmmaker Jasmina Cibic (b. 1979 in Ljubljana), about her interests in architecture and soft power; her work with archives to source found dialogue for her films, often from governmental sources; her background in Slovenia, and her experience of representing the country at the Venice Biennale with her To Our Economy and Culture project in 2013; her work since then, including The Pavilion (2015) and Tear Down and Rebuild (2015); the large scale of her recent work The Gift (2019); the importance of collaboration and conversation to her work; and how the coronavirus crisis might affect the political situation in Slovenia, and its potential consequences for the art world. A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.