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THE THIRD NUMBER OF THE MAGAZINE PLATFORMASCCA IS OUT AND ALREADY ONLINE:
www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma/

PlatfromaSCCA, the magazine of the SCCA, Center for Contemporary
Arts-Ljubljana, is focused on the themes that contribute considerably to the
understanding of the contemporary art practice and its context. The magazine
was predominantly created as a platform for the texts written within the
frame of the research project Manifesta in Our Backyard. The project (to
which both previous issues - June 2000, December 2000 - were dedicated) was
aimed at researching the operations of the contemporary art system on the
example of the Manifesta 3 (European Biennial of Contemporary Art) that took
place in Ljubljana in 2000. Although the research project is finished, we
continue with publishing the magazine PlatformaSCCA. The decision for that
was based on the estimation that critical and argumented reflection on
questions concerning contemporary art and culture is not present enough in
Slovenia.
Apart from providing the information on the center's activities, we publish
original texts and translations from the fields of art theory, critical
theory and art criticism.

PlatformaSCCA no. 3:
Focus of this issue is relation between ART-THEORY-IDEOLOGY.
>From the contents:
- Novelties from the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana
programmes, including deadlines for regional/international programmes, etc.;
- Ursa Jurman: "Out of Our Backyard";
- Misko Suvakovic: "The Ideology of the Exhibition " - the author deals with
the ideology of display on the example of three biggest European events in
the field of contemporary fine art - the Kassel Documenta, the Venice
Biennale and Manifesta - he concludes the text with a comparison of
Manifesta and Soros Centers of Contemporary Arts;
- Lev Kreft: "The Avant-Garde is Mainstream" - the author discusses the
relation between art, politics and aesthetics in the historical avant-garde,
neo-avant-garde and postmodernism;
- Natasa Ilic & Dejan Krsic: "Political Practices of Art" - on the example
of the art work by Sanja Ivekovic, which the authors place in the cultural
and political context of Croatia in the 90's, the authors write about the
chances for alternative culture in Croatia and the strategies of subversive
artistic practises;
- Bogdan Lesnik: "Fragments on Theory and Ideology " - through
psychoanalytic reading and in a dialogue with Freud's essays on art the
author discusses the relation between theory and ideology;
- Rastko Mocnik: ". About the Art " - a text on the parasitism of the art
theory and discourses on art experiences an unique parasitism with the
visual intervention by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art;
- Interview with Suzana Milevska conducted by Ivanka Apostolova in which the
main topic is (self)criticism and (self)reference when writing on art;
- Igor Zabel: "Art and Quality " - in a dialogue with Ursa Jurman the author
reflects on the issues of interpretation and the evaluation of contemporary
art.

PlatfromaSCCA is published in Slovene/English language and is available also
on the: www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma/

Contact:
Ursa Jurman
SCCA-Ljubljana, Vegova 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel: +386 426 21 92; fax: +386 425 47 34
scca@mail.ljudmila.org

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