Round tables: Curatorial practices in Slovenia

WORLD OF ART
Laboratorium of Curatorial Practices
Season 10: 2006/07

Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 7 pm
Thursday, May 17, 2007, 7 pm

Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • 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?

Round table 1: History of Curatorship

Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 7 pm
Guests: Zdenka Badovinac, Aleksander Bassin, Barbara Borčić, Tomaž Brejc

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

Zdenka Badovinac Aleksander Bassin Barbara Borčić Tomaž Brejc

Round table 2: The Variety of Curatorial Practices Today

Thursday, May 17, 2007, 7 pm
Guests: Jurij Krpan, Gregor Podnar, Tadej Pogačar, Nevenka Šivavec

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).

Jurija Krpan Gregor Podnar Tadej Pogačar Nevenka Šivavec

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 Laboratorium 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 Laboratorium are two round tables, thematizing the curatorial practices in Slovenia.

Laboratorium 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 KapŠ, Monika Ivančič Fajfar, Vasja Nagy, Mojca Puncer, Jaka Železnikar.

The public activities of Laboratorium 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.

Laboratorium 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.

Laboratorium 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.