Launch of web site rocnadela.org at Slovenian Festival Melbourne

1 March 2008 In Melbourne we are launching the website within the framework of the traditional Victorian Slovenian cultural event - the 11th Slovenian Festival at the club Jadran, on Saturday, 1st March. SEM presentation of the website will take place in Ljubljana later this year.

The Archive of Slovenian emigrant handicrafts and the website http://www.rocnadela.org is a photographic collection of traditional handicrafts produced by Australian Slovenes in Victoria. In 2006, Daša Koprivec (Slovenian Ethnographic Museum - SEM) and Aleksandra Ceferin (The Institute for Slovenian Studies of Victoria Inc. - ISSV Inc.), in collaboration with the Slovenian community and handicrafts practitioners, researched, recorded, selected and photographed a great number of handicraft objects.

The initial intention was an exhibition of emigrant handicrafts of Victoria at the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana. The exhibits for a physical exhibition of the emigrant Handicrafts were collected and brought to Ljubljana by Aleksandra Ceferin. However, the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum decided to postpone the exhibition till some later time. However, from the beginning we spoke of the possibility of an online exhibition which would be the basis of an archive of Slovenian emigrant handicrafts. This concept would eventually encompass the handicrafts tradition of the Slovenian emigrants around the world.

In the meantime the team Daša Koprivec, Aleksandra Ceferin and Chiron Morpheus, web designer of Zavod Neuropolis, completed the website, which they formally presented to the SEM staff on 16 October 2007. The colleagues enthusiastically accepted the brilliant concept of Chiron Morpheus, of an online exhibition and archive as an exciting experiment with exceptional possibilities for the future. Physical viewing is of course desirable, however an online exhibition offers immense gains of accessibility and a worldwide public.

This is the first online exhibition of the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum. Groundbreaking by world standards, it will provide the foundation for further research and archiving of Slovenian emigrant handicrafts around the world. It is an important project for another reason. The exhibition and the web site http://www.rocnadela.org are the result of collaboration between the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana, and the Institute for Slovenian Studies of Victoria in Melbourne. It is the first coproduction of this kind between Slovenia and Australia.

The exhibition was financed by the Office for Slovenes Abroad and the website http://www.rocnadela.org was made possible with the funding of the Ministry for Culture of the Republic Slovenia. We extend our great appreciation for making this outstanding project possible.

The sponsor for the Australian launch of the online handicrafts exhibition is the Victorian Multicultural Commission. We wish to thank the Government of Victoria for its support, which ensures the continuity of ethnic cultures and so the richness and diversity of multicultural Victoria.

Aleksandra Ceferin
President, ISSV Inc.

The exhibitors Sonia Benčič, Lidija Bole, Ema Bole-Kosmina, Mimica Bole, Marija Brne, Ana Marija Thomas Brne, Slava Burlovic, Marija Horvat, Lojze Jerič, Anica Kodila, Anica Kodrič, Jože Kodrič, Ivanka Kontelj, Lojzka Kuhar, Julka Kure, Meta Lenarčič, Matilda Martinčič, Andrej Potočnik, Jože Ramuta, Lucija Srnec, Marija Uršič, Vida Vojvoda



Predstavitev spletnega mesta rocnadela.org in arhiva slovenskih ročnih del v Melbournu

1 marca 2008 V Melbournu predstavljamo spletno mesto rocnadela.org v okviru tradicionalnega 11. Slovenskega festivala v klubu Jadran, v soboto, 1. marca. Slovenski etnografski muzej bo slovensko premiero spletnega mesta v Ljubljani predstavil sredi leta 2008.

Arhiv slovenskih izseljenskih ročnih del in spletno mesto http://www.rocnadela.org je fotografski izbor ročnih del Viktorijskih Slovenk in Slovencev. V sodelovanju s slovensko skupnostjo in izdelovalci sta v letu 2006 mag. Daša Koprivec (Slovenski etnografski muzej - SEM) in mag. Aleksandra Ceferin (Viktorijski inštitut za slovenistiko - ISSV Inc.) raziskali, pregledali, izbrali in fotografirali veliko število izdelkov.

Prvotni namen raziskave je bila razstava izseljenskih ročnih del Viktorije pri SEM v Ljubljani. Izdelke za fizično razstavo slovenskih izseljenskih ročnih del, skupaj je bilo to dvajset izdelovalcev, je zbrala in poslala v Ljubljano Aleksandra Ceferin. To razstavo je Slovenski etnografski muzej zaenkrat odložil. Vendar je že v začetku bilo govora tudi o možnosti spletne razstave in nadalje arhiva izseljenskih ročnih del. Ta zamisel naj bi sčasoma zajela tradicijo ročnih del slovenskega izseljenstva po svetu.

Medtem so v letu 2007 team - Daša Koprivec, Aleksandra Ceferin in spletni oblikovalec zavoda Neuropolis Chiron Morpheus pripravili spletno mesto, ki so jo kolegiju SEM formalno predstavili 16.oktobra 2007. Kolegi so navdušeno sprejeli brilijantno zamisel Chirona Morpheusa spletne razstave in arhiva kot projektni model z izjemnimi možnostmi za prihodnost. Fizični ogled razstavnih predmetov je seveda vedno zaželjen, vendar razstava na spletu nudi neizmerne prednosti - dosegljivost in svetovno publiko.

To je prva spletna razstava Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja, ki je izredna po svetovnih merilih, ki poleg tega polaga temelje za nadaljnje raziskovanje in arhiviranje slovenskih izseljenskih ročnih del po svetu. Projekt je pomemben še iz drugega razloga. Razstava in spletno mesto http://www.rocnadela.org sta rezultat partnerske koprodukcije Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja in Viktorijskega Inštituta za slovenistiko. Predstavlja prvo koprodukcijo te vrste med Slovenijo in Avstralijo.

Finančno je raziskavo ročnih del podprl Urad za Slovence v zamejstvu in po svetu, spletno mesto http://www.rocnadela.org pa je financiralo Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije. Obema se zahvaljujemo, da sta omogočila ta izreden projekt.

Sponzor za avstralsko premiero spletne razstave ročnih del je Victorian Multicultural Commission. Lepo se zahvaljujemo vladi dežele Viktorije za podporo, ki zagotavlja kontinuiteto etničnih skupin in tako bogato raznolikost multikulturne Viktorije.

Aleksandra Ceferin Predsednica, ISSV Inc.

Izdelovalci Sonia Benčič, Lidija Bole, Ema Bole-Kosmina, Mimica Bole, Marija Brne, Ana Marija Thomas Brne, Slava Burlovic, Marija Horvat, Lojze Jerič, Anica Kodila, Anica Kodrič, Jože Kodrič, Ivanka Kontelj, Lojzka Kuhar, Julka Kure, Meta Lenarčič, Matilda Martinčič, Andrej Potočnik, Jože Ramuta, Lucija Srnec, Marija Uršič, Vida Vojvoda

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