[spectre] Conference: Art and Politics The Imagination of Opposition in Europe - Dublin, April 29, 30 2004

[The Art Projects Network]

With the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics
Art and Politics The Imagination of Opposition in Europe
University College Dublin
April 29 – 30, 2004

How does 'art' intersect 'politics' either when all art is politics or when
politics forcibly subsumes art to its will?  In the modernist tradition, art
and politics are autonomous fields. In totalitarian societies, everything is
politics, with all differentiation disappearing along with the limits
between public and private spheres.

In post-imperial societies it is seen as evident that art was rarely
independent, playing as it did its own part in the imperialist politics of
cultural hegemony and giving rise to various kinds of post-imperial cultural
headaches. In post-socialist societies, it becomes clear that, with
everything being political, art can produce a politics of its own, making
the invisible aesthetic process that makes the cultural hegemony of the
socialist regime visible.

In the case of Slovenia, Neue Slowenische Kunst, as a collective project
starting from 1980 on, is the most outstanding case of the art of the
Eighties. It is an important starting point for analyses of how art and
artists react and interact with different political hegemonies – underlying
shared and differentiated experiences in both contemporary and historical
Europe.

An international panel of artists, art historians, critics, academics and
arts professionals will compare and contrast European experiences based upon
the themes above.

Further conference and registration details are available by post or by
email from the Dublin European Institute, UCD, Belfield, email dei at ucd.ie.
While the programme is being finalised, panellists thus far confirmed
include: Judith Devlin, Aless Erjavec, Lev Kreft, Bojana Kunst, Marina
Grzinic Mauhler, Paula Murphy, Misko Suvakovic and Alexei Monroe.
Registration fee €25 (professional) and €10 (concessionary – including
full-time registered students)

Further information concerning this and the Neue Slowenische Kunst Event
Dublin 2004 - http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net/nskdublin2004/

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Noel Kelly
Partner - Programs & Projects
The Art Projects Network
http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net