Lighting Guerrilla www.svetlobnagverila.net
An international festival held in Ljubljana since 2007, Lighting Guerrilla is dedicated to the production and presentation of contemporary visual and new media artwork whose principal means of expression is the medium of light. One of the goals is to deploy light objects, installations, and projections to create a different image of the city and confront the general public with contemporary art. The event underlines the role of art in everyday life as well as the role the artist should play in shaping public space. Its mission is to highlight the city as a living organism, a space of creativity that excites the imagination and dictates a dynamic and exploratory pace of life. The festival takes place every year in late spring when numerous projects outdoors and in galleries illuminate Ljubljana. Each year focusing on a different theme, it also has a smaller autumn offshoot named Re:Action, which is a regular guest in other cities in Slovenia. Lighting Guerrilla productions are often collaborations with public and private institutions from the field of art, and the Lighting Guerrilla Laboratory carries out workshops and productions of new works together with several university faculties and secondary schools. Aside from showcasing the latest international projects, Lighting Guerrilla supports the production of new artistic projects by Slovenian authors, who are regular guests in the network of partner festivals abroad. 60
