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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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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