[spectre] Scca Slovenia: Curatorial Practices in Slovenia, round tables

[SCCA_newsletter]

SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana

PRESS RELEASE

No. 7/2007

Ljubljana, May 9, 2007

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WORLD OF ART, School of Contemporary Arts

<http://www.worldofart.org>www.worldofart.org

2006/2007



Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia



Curatorial practices in Slovenia



Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 7 pm

Round table 1: History of Curatorship

Guests: Zdenka Badovinac, Aleksander Bassin, Barbara Borcic, Tomaz Brejc



Thursday, May 17, 2007, 7 pm

Round table 2: The Variety of Curatorial Practices Today

Guests: Jurij Krpan, Gregor Podnar, Tadej Pogacar, Nevenka Sivavec

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- What is the meaning of curatorial practice within the art system?

- Is the curator an autonomous subject of the world of art - what are 
the power relations within the art system?

- What is the curator's role in the context of transformation of 
social reality?

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Round table 1: History of Curatorship



Juxtaposition of different understandings, visions, achievements and 
interpretations of a wider context from the sixties to today in 
Slovenia.

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Round table 2: The Variety of Curatorial Practices Today



Detecting various models of work: support and promotion of radical 
art practices, integration of local and international environment, 
merging of the curatorial and art practice, forming a commercial 
contemporary art gallery (going into the market).

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The World of Art, School for Contemporary Art, has been operating for 
ten years: it developed in 1997 out of a need for theoretical and 
practical education in the field of contemporary art in Slovenia.



This year, the program Laboratory is formed as part of the effort of 
the World of Art to establish a platform for discussion on curatorial 
practices in the field of contemporary art.



The first public events in the frame of Laboratory are two round 
tables, thematizing the curatorial practices in Slovenia.



Laboratory is a group made of seven curators, critics, theoreticians 
and artists, selected on the basis of an internal call for 
participation directed to former participants of the World of Art 
curatorial courses and seminars: Ivana Bago, Petja Grafenauer Krnc, 
Petra Kaps, Monika Ivancic Fajfar, Vasja Nagy, Mojca Puncer, Jaka 
Zeleznikar.



The public activities of Laboratory take place at the Project Room 
SCCA, discussions and reflections between the participants also occur 
on the Internet (through forums and mailing lists), and regular 
informal meetings.



Laboratory is conceived experimentally, in order to avoid the 
monotony of formal workings within the system and to encourage 
constructive thinking and analysis of curatorial practices in the 
past and also the present.



Laboratory is also focused at analysis, contextualisation and 
valorization of the former achievements of the World of Art which, as 
the only Slovene program in the field of education in contemporary 
art, has formed a generation of young Slovene curators.

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SCCA-Ljubljana

Center for Contemporary Arts

Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

<http://www.scca-ljubljana.si>http://www.scca-ljubljana.si

phone: 00 386 1 431 83 85

fax: 00 386 1 430 06 29

Contact person: Dusan Dovc

e-mail: <mailto:info at scca-ljubljana.si>info at scca-ljubljana.si

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SCCA-Ljubljana is a member of Asociacija, the association of 
non-government organisations and independent creators in the field of 
culture and art in Slovenia.


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