Marko Batista and Nataša Mušević - ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing) 2010

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Marko Batista and Nataša Mušević (text by: Luka Zagoričnik) Marko Batista belongs to the younger generation of Slovene multimedia artists. Splitting his time and creative efforts between London and Ljubljana, Batista – like the majority of Slovene contemporary artists – creates and presents his work with far more success abroad than at home, where there is a considerable lack of both appreciation and venues for this kind of artistic expressions. At least we thought so years ago, when Marko Batista started to appear in the spaces which are today considered places for sound art or multimedia experience. Marko Batista first appeared in Slovene contemporary sound landscape as a member of Klon:Art:Resistance, which he co-founded with Miha Horvat. Marked by the digital milieu of video art, noise, and the pulse of harder electronic dance practices with occasional echoes of underground dub, this heterogeneous art collective at the time persistently rubbed the image with its guerrilla interven