[spectre] [SCCA Ljubljana] Lecture Boris Buden

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World of Art 2001/2002
Series of lectures Strategies of Presentation 2

World of Art is an educational program on theory and practice in
contemporary visual art.

It's fifth year is launching the Course for Curators of Contemporary Arts,
Workshops Documents and Proposals and a series of lectures entitled
Strategies of Presentation 2. Within this year's series we have invited
eight artists, curators and critics to present their own curatorial and
artistic practices, by definition more innovative and challenging than
main-stream ones as established within the art system.

This year's series will be brought to an end by Boris Buden with his
lecture entitled Art as a Political Intervention: The Austrian Case on
Wednesday, 9th October at 8 pm in Galerija Kapelica on Kersnikova 4,
Ljubljana.

Boris Buden is a philosopher, researcher and writer on art, culture and
politics. After his initial start in Zagreb he moved to Vienna in 1990
where he currently lives and works. He was the editor of the Zagreb
newspaper Arkzin, and currently he is one f the editors of the Viennese
newspaper Springerin. He co-operated at numerous projects, amongst others
at the platforms of Documenta 11 in Vienna, New Delhi and Kassel.  He
translated a number of books (amongst others Freud, Helmut Dahmer, etc.),
wrote various articles (amongst others for Polet, Quorom, Feral Tribune,
etc.) as well as published three books (a collection of political and
cultural criticism essays Barikade (Barricades) in 1996, a revised and
extended edition Barikade 2 (Barricades 2) in 1997 and a book of cultural
and social criticism essays Kaptolski kolodvor (Kaptol railway station) in
2001).

The lecture Art as a Political Intervention: The Austrian Case will discuss
the movements in the Austrian cultural and art scene following the great
election success and the entry of Haider's liberal party into the
government. It was this social sphere that prepared the most radical
rebellion against the new political situation. The best example of the
intervention of art with politics was the Viennese initiative Gettoatack, a
collective protest action carried out by artists, left oriented liberal
intellectuals and youth. Following the trend of growing politisation of art
in the German cultural and artistic field from the beginning of the 1990's
this initiative has, during a certain period, became the main catalyst of
the social criticism of the paralysed Austrian political system. However,
at the recent fall of Schuessl's government the connection between the
artistic interventions and the so long awaited political turnover failed to
be established. Where can we therefore seek for their meaning?

The lecture will be held in Croatian.

Admission is free!

Cordially invited.

Sasa Glavan
director of World of Art program
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: 00 386 1 431 83 85, fax: 00 386 1 430 06 29

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