WORLD OF ART
School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art
Season 14
1st Year (November 2011–June 2012)
Workshop: Friday, June 1, 2012, Calvert 22, London
Lecture: Saturday, June 2, 2012, University College London
TIME FOR A NEW STATE is part of a London wide presentation of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) in cooperation with Tate, who was hosting a Symposium (14 April), and which was also comprised of a music performance at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (14 April), an exhibition of archival material at Chelsea Space (Chelsea College of Art) and a seminar at UCL.
TIME FOR A NEW STATE is the first UK retrospective of IRWIN, the visual arts component of NSK, founded in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 1983. This ambitious display features seminal projects from the past twenty years including a special adaptation of Transnacionala (1996), an interactive installation enabling participants to become NSK citizens and have their own passports created. Also on display is Kapital (1991), a site-specific installation that mixes taxidermy with religious icons, appropriating and recycling the symbols of past totalitarian governments and utopian art movements.
In collaboration with the History of Art Department, University College London
Workshop with Saša Nabergoj (SCCA−Ljubljana), Friday June 1, 10am−5.30pm, Calvert 22
Self-historicisation as Artistic Practice: The Case of IRWIN
This workshop explores the strategy of artistic self-historicisation, focusing on the particular case of the Slovenian collective IRWIN and their project East Art Map.
Participants will spend the day at Calvert 22 within IRWIN’s Time For A New State exhibition. The programme will focus on placing the work of IRWIN in a socio-political, ideological and cultural context, while also offering an overview of their artistic practice. The workshop will address the notion of historicising both in the context of IRWIN’s work and from the wider perspective of its implications for art historical and curatorial practices.
More:
- Calvert 22, Time For A New State + NSK Folk Art events
- Calvert 22, Workshop
- Press, IRWIN, Time for a New State
In collaboration with the History of Art Department, University College London
Lecture of Saša Nabergoj on the symposium:
Archive as Strategy: Conversations about Self-historicisation across the East
Symposium – East Art Map: History is Not Given. Please Help to Construct It
Saturday 2 June, 2−6pm, University College London
Speakers include Charles Esche, Gediminas Gasparavičius, IRWIN, Saša Nabergoj, Milena Tomić and Jonah Westerman.
This symposium will explore IRWIN and their project East Art Map in relation to strategies of self-archiving, self-historicisation and re-enactment in Eastern European art. It will involve an afternoon of presentations from established speakers and postgraduate researchers engaging with issues surrounding IRWIN’s practice, EAM, archival tendencies in Eastern European art, and the legacies of these practices today (with specialists exploring the legacies of the project in relation to artistic and curatorial practice, art institutions and the writing of art history).
Saša Nabergoj (1971)
Art historian, curator and critic. Assistant director at SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts. A member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). A member of editorial board of Maska, Performing Arts Journal.
Member of the pedagogical team at Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (1995–1997). Collaboration on exhibition projects in National Gallery in Ljubljana (1996–1997). Assistant of art director in Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana (1997). Collaborator of Soros Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana (1997–1999). From 2000 employed by SCCA-Ljubljana, Center of Contemporary Arts. From 1995 publishes texts, critics, essays on the contemporary art and culture in various Slovene and international art magazines and newspapers (catalogues of Gallery Škuc, publications of multicultural center Metelkova, art magazines FlashArt/Italy, USA, Umelec/Czekia, Zarez/Croatia, M’ars/Slovenia, daily newspapers Večer, Delo …). In 1999 and 2000 worked as collaborative researcher in the research project Problematic of space within alternative culture, ordered and financed by Cultural Department of the City of Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 2001 to 2004 acted as vice president of ICAN (Internationals Contemporary Arts Network). Since 2003 contributing editor of Praesens, magazine of contemporary art in central Europe.