MARMALADE
DVD - Video, 4 min, February 2004
Video by: Damijan Kracina, Katarina K. Toman
Cast: Grandma Zalka, Klara Frančiška, Amalia

Short synopsis:
MARMALADE (How to fix the ceramic tile)

Grandson: How you planning to smear this?
Grandmother: With marmalade.
Grandson: And then you will glue it there?
Grandmother: Yes directly. Then it dry and it holds
Grandson: And how long it holds?
Grandmother: It hold up to two to three years. There is almost half of them already smeared.
Grandson: You mean half of plaques? How you will glue it?
Grandmother: Let me show you.

Grandma Zalka 82 years old lady from a small, old village in the western part of Slovenia demonstrates a practical domestic technique of gluing ceramic tiles.
She has been using homemade marmalade (plum jam) instead of glue. “Jam glue” is an ancient practice for quick repair, invented by smart and practical housekeepers. In the video Zalka demonstrates the method to her grandson and grand-grand daughter.

Screenings:

Culture Industry, Folklore and Clichés at VOX. Athens, Greece, July 2009
The Ideal Woman, Noordbrabants Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, NL, January 2009
EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany, 2005
22nd Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel, Germany, 2005
Home Made Marmelade, Priština, Kosova, 2004
Ready 2 Change, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2004
Extended Views. Centre Céramique in Maastricht, the Netherlands.2004
RE-Connections; UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 2004

MARMALADE.TXT by Barbara Borčič english / slovenski

Extended Views. Centre Céramique in Maastricht, the Netherlands.2004

About artists:
Damijan Kracina and Katarina K. Toman have been working together on various projects since 1993. They are the founding members of the Provokart art group, which performed several public art events and projects.

Damijan Kracina, Kobarid, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
His basic education was in the classical study of sculpture and a postgraduate study of video and the new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He attended several workshops and courses in new media, video and computer arts. He has been actively present on the Slovene art scene for almost 10 years. He participated at several important exhibitions and art projects in Slovenia, all across Europe and elsewhere. For further information about the artist, see his website (www.kracina.com).

Katarina Toman Kracina, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She is a contemporary painter. She exhibited her “ordinary paintings and little sculptures” in eight different one person shows, and has participated at some group exhibitions around the world as well. For further information about the artist, see her website (www.kracina.com/katarina).

// SLO 2004, DVD, 4:00
// Realisation: Damijan Kracina, Katarina K. Toman
// Cast: Grandma Zalka, Klara Franciska, Amalia
// Distribution: Damijan Kracina

Im Video ›Marmalade oder Wie klebe ich eine Küchenfliese‹ zeigt Oma Zalka eine interessante und praktische Methode, wie sie in ihrer Küche Fliesen anklebt. Sie ist 82 und lebt in einem kleinen, alten Ort im westlichen Teil Sloweniens in der Nähe zu Italien. Sie benutzt hausgemachte Marmalade (Pflaumenmus) statt Klebers. ›Muskleber‹ ist eine alte Praktik für eine schnelle Reparatur, erfunden von schlauen and praktisch veranlagten Hausbesitzern. Im Video zeigt Zalka diese Methode ihrer Urur-enkelin Klara. Das Video psäsentiert: das Ambiente eines alten Hauses, eine traditionelle Küche, eine selbstbewusste alte Frau, ein neugieriges Kind, und eine Stimme, die aus dem Hintergrund Fragen stellt und das Rezept für die hausgemachte Marmalade erfragt.

DAMIJAN KRACINA und KATARINA K. TOMAN sind zwei unabhängige Künstler, die seit 1993 an verschiedenen Projekten zusammen arbeiten. Sie sind Mitglieder und Gründer der Künstlergruppe Provokart, die bei diversen Kunst-ereignissen und -projekten aufgetreten ist. (www.kracina.com)

In the video ›Marmalade or How to fix ceramic tile‹ grandma Zalka presents an interesting and practical technique for gluing ceramic tiles in her kitchen. She is 82 years old and she lives in the small, old village in the western part of Slovenia on the border to Italy. She uses homemade Marmalade (plum jam) instead of glue. ›Jam glue‹ is old practice for quick repair, invented by smart and practical housekeepers. In the video Zalka presents this method to her grand-grand daughter Klara. The video is presenting: ambient of an old house, traditional kitchen, self confident old woman, curious child, voice asking questions from the back of the camera and recipe for homemade marmalade.

DAMIJAN KRACINA and KATARINA K. TOMAN are two individual artists who have been working together on some pro-jects since 1993. They were members and founders of the art group Provokart, who performed several public art events and projects. (www.kracina.com)

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