[spectre] Conference Public vs Private, Ljubljana, April 2-4, 2004

[Inke Arns]

[Could those who attend the conference in Ljubljana please post a 
short report on the list? I'd be very much interested ... Greetings, 
Inke]


From:           	"galerija skuc" <galerija.skuc at guest.arnes.si>
Subject:        	conference Public vs Private
Date sent:      	Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:03:49 +0100


Skuc Gallery is inviting you on the international conference


Public vs. Private
Cultural Policies and the Art Market in Central and South-Eastern 
Europe

2-4 April 2004 

at Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

The conference Public vs. Private: Cultural Policies and the Art
Market in Central and South-Eastern Europe is one among the series of
conferences and symposia that will take place in 2004 in Vienna, 
Linz, Ljubljana, London, Lüneburg and Riga as part of the European 
Internet project republicart. Supplementing the Vienna conference on 
Public Art Policies, the conference in Ljubljana will look at the 
cultural-policy aspects of the wider republicart project. At the same 
time it is a part of the series of events "In the Cities of the 
Balkans", the second part of the one-year project "Balkan Trilogy", 
initiated by Kunsthalle Fridericinaum, Kassel. 

The goal of this gathering is to interrogate the workings of art
institutions, and their specific support structures. The conference
looks at the buffering role of art institutions within the context of
the dismantling of the welfare state and cutbacks in arts funding 
from two distinct regionally oriented perspectives in which the 
question of the relationship between private and public support for 
the arts is of particular significance for these two quite different 
geographical and historical contexts.

At a time when private and public support for art is even more 
closely intertwined and we see such strategies being introduced as, 
for instance, "private-public partnerships", the conference will 
attempt to probe more deeply into the differences between private and 
public support, in terms of their mechanisms, functions and effects, 
as well as their mutual rivalry and exclusivity.

Concept by Gregor Podnar in collaboration with Natasa Petresin.

The participants of the conference: Marius Babias (Berlin), Zdenka
Badovinac (Ljubljana), Riccardo Caldura (Marghera/Venice), Vesna 
Copic (Ljubljana), Dobrila Denegri (Rome), Els Hanappe (Athens), 
Janos Szoboszlai (Budapest), Erden Kosova (Istanbul), Brane Kovic
(Ljubljana), Tomi Medak (Zagreb), Miran Mohar (Ljubljana), Angelika
Nollert (Munich), Blaz Persin (Ljubljana), Robert Pfaller (Vienna),
Sonia Rosso (Turin), Andreas Schnitzler (Graz), Erzen Shkololli
(Peja), Goran Sergej Pristas (Zagreb), Attila Tordai-S. (Cluj-
Napoca), Nebojsa Vilic (Skopje), Franci Zavrl (Ljubljana).

Moderated by: Steve Green (British Council, Ljubljana), Bernard 
Micaud (Institut Français Charles Nodier, Ljubljana), Natasa Petresin
(free-lance curator, Ljubljana), Gregor Podnar (Galerija Gregor
Podnar, Kranj/ Ljubljana), and Eva Maria Stadler (Grazer 
Kunstverein).

The conference will be accomplished by a publication edited by Natasa
Petresin in collaboration with Gregor Podnar, funded by 
Kulturstiftung des Bundes.  

Public vs. Private is organised by Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, as part
of the project republicart (www.republicart.net). Public vs. Private
also takes place in the context of "In the Cities of the Balkans", 
the 2nd part of the "Balkans trilogy", a project initiated by the
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. The conference will be hosted by
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, co-organiser of 
the project.  

Funded by: European Cultural Foundation, Kulturstiftung des Bundes,
Culture 2000, Ministry of Culture of the Republic Slovenia and
Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture and Research.

You can find time table of the conference on 
www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si




Inke Arns
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