lectures
17. 12. 2008

Eda Čufer: Occupation dramaturge, curator, editor

12th year 2008/09
Lecture

December 10, 2008
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

On Wednesday, 11th of December 2008, a well visited lecture by Eda Čufer titled Occupation dramaturge, curator, editor was being held in Project Room.

Eda Čufer, dramaturge, curator and publicist, talked about the question of history and present conditions of certain cultural occupations. Starting from her personal […]

7. 3. 2008

Manray Hsu: Informal politics and contemporary art

11th year 2007/08
Development - Lecture

February 19, 2008
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Political art is coming back, be it in the forms of documentary, intervention in real or virtual space, performance, installation, etc. Much of today’s social and political work deals with informal economies (economic behaviours for survival and outside of […]

15. 11. 2007

Contemporary Art in a Neoliberal Climate (lecture)

Survey lecture derived from Retort talk, May 2004
Julian Stallabrass

Lecture, November 15, 2007 at 19.00
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Andreas Gursky, Stock Exchange, Tokyo, 1990

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando, 1985

At first sight there seems to be no system against which art is currently more differentiated than the global neoliberal economy, founded on the ideal if not […]

15. 11. 2007

Julian Stallabrass: Art Incorporated: Contemporary Art in a Neoliberal Climate

11th year 2007/08
Lecture

November 15, 2007
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Contemporary art likes to think of itself as a zone of free expression that stands outside the instrumental demands of work and the vulgar uniformities of mass culture. At the same time, it has changed dramatically since the end of the […]

30. 9. 2007

Curatorial Translation

September 24-30, 2007
Skopje, Macedonia

Curatorial Translation project aims to investigate, contextualise and question various curatorial theories and practices. The ultimate objective of Curatorial Translation is to imagine, propose and develop a platform for new models of curatorial discourses and practices that are equally informed of theoretical and art concepts. The project will address the question whether […]

12. 4. 2007

Suzana Milevska: Curator as a translator

Lecture

April 12th 2007 at 8 pm
Project room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

The main aim of this lecture will be to address the urgency of an epistemological clarification of the position of the contemporary curator in contexts where the curatorial practice supplements the lack of theoretical education of the artists. More precisely, […]

6. 2. 2007

Clémentine Deliss: Plan for a Mobile Faculty of Arts

Lecture

Tuesday, February 6, 2007, at 19.00
Cankarjev dom, M3/4 Hall, Prešernova 10, Ljubljana

In her lecture, Clémentine Deliss focused on conclusions that she has reached through creating the magazine Metronome, a project she has developed as a kind of research practice that resisted the dominating forms of exhibitions and curatorial work in the field of contemporary visual […]

18. 1. 2007

Angela Harutyunyan: Importing “Curator”: Politics of Representation and Recognition in Contemporary Armenian Art

Lecture

Thursday, January 18, 2007, at 7. p.m.
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia

In the first part of her talk she introduced the word ‘curator’ (and its constructed Armenian equivalent - ‘hamadrogh’) as an imported concept in the context of contemporary Armenian art which participates in the ongoing signification of other […]