Vladimir Us
artist & curator
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[Scca_newsletter] SCCA-Ljubljana at the 2nd Summer Seminars for Art Curators in
Yerevan
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana
PRESS RELEASE
No. 12/2007
Ljubljana, September 3, 2007
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WORLD OF ART, School of Contemporary Arts
www.worldofart.org
2006/2007
2nd Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan
Between Exposition and Mediation
July 23-August 7, 2007, Yerevan, Armenia
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The Summer Seminars for Art Curators 2007 has been organized in collaboration
with the National Association of Art Critics (Yerevan, Armenia), SCCA, Center
for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana (Slovenia), Soros Center for Contemporary Art
- Alma Aty (Kazakhstan) and BM Center for Contemporary Art (Istanbul, Turkey).
After successfully completing and summarizing the Summer Seminars, the National
Association of Art Critics (NAAC) now intends to further develop the program
focusing on partnership and networking with regional actors in the field of art
criticism and curating.
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SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana (Slovenia) has been present at
the summer's programme with two presentations: Tevz Logar, the World of Art
assistant, presented the school of contemporary arts World of Art
(www.worldofart.org), that has been operating in frame of SCCA-Ljubljana from
1997. Conceived in yearly cycles and composed by the course for curators with a
final exhibition, seminar in writing, series of lectures and a yearly
anthology, it has established the mechanisms necessary for reflective operation
in the world of art. Barbara Borcic, SCCA-Ljubljana director and head of video
programs, presented different aspects of curating in Slovenia comprised of
juxtaposition of different understandings, visions, achievements and
interpretations of curatorial practices in a wider context of contemporary art
from the sixties to the present.
SCCA-Ljubljana as a partner launched open call for tenders for residents of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The
SCCA-Ljubljana selection board (Barbara Borcic, Sasa Nabergoj and Nevenka
Sivavec) made a preselection. The final selection was made by the National
Association of Art Critics.
Petra Kaps, art critic, curator and publicist, took part in the Summer
Seminars.
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2nd Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan
Program
The 2007 summer seminars and the workshop for art curators centered on the
relation of the art critic and curator on the one hand and curator-artist on
the other, in the face of globalization/westernization of the art market and
big exhibitions; i. e. biennales, art fairs and festivals as one of the
outcomes of these processes that have penetrated into former socialist
countries since the mid-1990’s.
The program focused on curating as a critical practice, and particularly, the
curator as someone who combines the management of relations (artist-curator,
artist-critics, artist-society) with the function of evaluation.
The intensive two-week program comprised of a theory and method courses, as
well as a curatorial workshop. The courses has been combined with presentations
by local and international artists, curators, art historians and cultural
workers as well as with visits to artist’s studios, galleries and museum in
Yerevan.
Mentors
Misko Suvakovic: Critical Writing Workshop
At the "Critical writing" workshop the theoretical platforms of critical
practice and theoretical and curatorial practices in contemporary art has been
discussed. The goal of the course was to introduce the students to analytical
relationship to the discursive problems and questions of power in contemporary
art and culture.
Misko Suvakovic
Professor of aesthetics and theory of art. He teaches at the Faculty of Music
and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade. He is an
author and co-editor of twenty two books on contemporary art and theory.
Neery Melkonian: Global Feminism’s Other
During the course the contexts, subtexts and curatorial approaches that inform
big feminist international exhibits were discussed. The ideological frameworks
and the possible causes for the absence of certain cultural geographies in such
undertakings were addressed. The course focused on exploring the works of
Armenian women artists internationally covering the post WWII period to the
present.
Neery Melkonian
Independent critic, curator and an advisor based in New York City. As Associate
Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, and the
Director of Visual Arts programming at the Center for Contemporary Arts in
Santa Fe, Melkonian has organized over twenty solo exhibitions and two
traveling group-exhibits. She has lectured/conducted workshops on topics
related to aesthetics of displacement, globalization and trans-cultural
geographies.
Elvan Zabunian: A History of Exposition
The five meetings were articulated around outstanding exhibitions organized in
Europe since 1969, the year when the exhibition When Attitudes Become Form
(Harald Szeeman) was organized. The exhibitions discussed included Paris-Berlin
(1978) and Paris-Moscow (1979), Magicians of the Earth (1989), Dokumenta XI.
Elvan Zabunian
Contemporary art historian and art critic based in Paris. She is Associate
Professor at the Rennes University (Brittany, France) where for several years
she has been the director of the Curatorial Program in the Art History
Department.
Presentationas and lectures
>From Armenia
Ruben Arevshatyan (artist and free-lance curator): Contemporary Art and
Educational System in Armenia; Fine Arts Department of the Armenian Open
University
Nazareth Karoyan (AICA-Armenia): Education as a field of critical praxis
Eva Khachatryan (ACCEA, Erevan): Art Criticism And Curatorial Practice In
Post-Soviet Armenia
Azat Sargysayn (GSSA, Erevan): Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Vardan Azatyan (AICA-Armenia): Memory and/or Oblivion: Historicizing the
Contemporary Art of Armenia
Angela Harutyunyan (AICA-Armenia): Importing the Curator: Politics of
Representation and Recognition in Contemporary Armenian Art
International guests
Malcolm F. Miles (University of Plymouth, England): Society as a Work of Art?
Claudia-Maria Luenig (Basement, Wien, Austria): The Role of Independent
Exhibition Spaces In the Arts On the Example of the Basement in Vienna
Valeria Ibraeva (SCCA-Almaty, Kazakhstan): Kazakhstan art as a political project
Tevz Logar (SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenia): School of contemporary arts World of Art
(www.worldofart.org)
Barbara Borcic (SCCA-Ljubljana, Slovenia): On different aspects of curating in
Slovenia
Participants
Arpi Adamyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Mary Amirkhanyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Rael
Artel (Tallin, Estonia), Anna Bitkina (Sanct-Petersburg, Russia), Armine
Babayan (Yerevan, Armenia), Irina Chkhaidze (Tbilisi, Georgia), Estzer Lazar
(Budapest, Hungary), Karina Galimzyanova (Bichkek, Kyrgyztan), Marianna
Hovhanissyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Petra Kaps (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Dastan
Kozhakhmetov (Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan), Sorana Muntenau (Bucharest, Romania), Azat
Sarkissian (Yerevan, Armenia), Seda Shekoyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Joanna
Sokolowska (Warsaw, Poland), Marko Stamenkovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Ani
Soukiassian (Yerevan, Armenia), Nadia Tsulukidze (Tbilisi, Georgia), Arpine
Tokmadjayan (Yerevan, Armenia), Tsolak Topchyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Vladimir Us
(Chisinau, Moldova).
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Contact:
SCCA-Ljubljana (office hours: 11.00-15.00)
Contact persons: Tevz Logar (coordinator of World of Art)
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, phone: 00 386 41 367 425, fax: 00 386 1 430 06 29
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Additional information:
SCCA-Ljubljana, World of Art: www.worldofart.org
National Association of Art Critics, Summer School 2007:
www.naac.am/html/htmeng/indexeng.htm
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SCCA-Ljubljana
Center for Contemporary Arts
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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independent creators in the field of culture and art in Slovenia.
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