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DEAD FACTORY<\/strong>
\nKamnik, Slovenia \u00b7 2024
\nAudiovisual Installation & Live Performance<\/h3>\n<\/div>

DEAD FACTORY<\/h3>\n

Kamnik, Slovenia \u00b7 2024<\/strong>
\nSite-specific audiovisual installation & live performance<\/em><\/p>\n

Dead Factory<\/strong> is a site-specific audiovisual project created inside the abandoned former KIK industrial complex in Kamnik.<\/p>\n

The work reflects on the decline of industrial heritage and on places that once shaped the economic and social life of entire communities, but were later abandoned and left to decay.<\/p>\n

Through original music, film, translucent printed fabrics, light and spatial intervention, the project temporarily brings the abandoned factory back to life.<\/p>\n

Rather than treating the industrial ruin merely as a remnant of the past, the installation transforms it into a space of memory, reflection and new artistic presence.<\/p>\n

THREE PARTS OF THE WORK<\/h3>\n

THE LAST TRAIN<\/strong>
\nOriginal composition \/ live performance<\/em><\/p>\n

The first part of the project is built around Simon Skalar\u2019s original composition The Last Train<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Performed within the abandoned industrial space, the music evokes departure, disappearance and the gradual loss of a world once defined by work, production and collective memory.<\/p>\n

THIS IS HOW IT WAS<\/strong>
\nFilm<\/em><\/p>\n

The second part is the documentary film This Is How It Was<\/strong>, featuring the testimony of Angela Golob, who worked at the KIK factory for thirty years.<\/p>\n

Her personal memories connect the physical remains of the factory with the people whose lives were once closely linked to it. kamnik.si<\/a><\/p>\n

REFORESTING INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE<\/strong>
\nSpatial audiovisual installation<\/em><\/p>\n

The final part transforms the abandoned factory through translucent printed fabrics, original sound, light and moving image.<\/p>\n

Organic forms and representations of nature enter the industrial architecture, creating a new temporary landscape inside a place marked by production, decline and abandonment.<\/p>\n

The intervention raises the question of what happens to industrial spaces after their original function disappears \u2014 and whether abandoned heritage can acquire a new cultural meaning rather than simply vanish.<\/p>\n

CONCEPT<\/h3>\n

Dead Factory<\/strong> is not only about the history of one factory.<\/p>\n

The project uses KIK as a starting point for a broader reflection on abandoned industrial environments, the disappearance of working communities and the relationship between economic transformation, people and landscape.<\/p>\n

The work seeks to reactivate forgotten spaces through art \u2014 not by hiding their decay, but by allowing their history to become part of a new experience.<\/p>\n

CREDITS<\/h3>\n

Concept & Music:<\/strong> Simon Skalar
\nVisual Art & Printed Textiles:<\/strong> Irena Gayatri Horvat
\nFilm:<\/strong> This Is How It Was<\/em>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Former KIK factory \/ Kreativna \u010detrt Barutana, Kamnik, Slovenia
\nPremiere:<\/strong> 15 December 2024
\nSupported by:<\/strong> Dom kulture Kamnik and the Municipality of Kamnik kamnik.si<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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