Series of public lectures 2024/2026
- Iva Kovač: Here We Go Again – Working with (Artists Working with) Archives
- Nina Prader: The Library is an Event – Enter the Reading Ring!
- Glasgow Zine Library: The Radical Present of Self-Publishing
- Cem A.: Meme-thinking, Meme-making
Workshops
- Delavnica pisanja za umetnice_
- Discover the World of Biotextiles: presentation and workshop with Petra Jerič
- Experimental Workshop on Making Biobeads for Jewellery with Lea Culetto
- Workshop on bioplasticine for children with Lea Culetto
- Nina Prader: Community Zine Ships – Ahoy, Power Lines!
- Cem A.: Meme-thinking, Meme-making
- Delavnica pisanja
Series of public lectures 2022/2024
Seminar for Accessible Future
- Nataša Antulov, Nataša Bačić & Mila Čuljak: The Potentials of Inclusive Theatre: The Experience of the Fifth Ensemble
- Maja Ogrizović: Film for Everyone + Culture for Everyone – Inclusive Cultural Practices. Everything. For everyone.
- Saša Asentić: Aesthetics of Access and Politics of Memory
- Saša Lesjak: Information for All – Culture for All
The seminar is organised by Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society and SCCA-Ljubljana. The Seminar is part of the curriculum of the Kulturpunkt’s Journalism School and the World of Art School, but it is also open to the general public.
Series of public lectures 2022/2024
- Saša Lesjak (RISA Institute): Information for All – Culture for All
- Contemporary Disability Art: Access Aesthetics and Institutional Critique
- Johanna Hedva presents Your Love Is Not Good / in conversation with Suzana Tratnik
- Nina Hoechtl and Julia Wieger (SKGAL): In Archives – Artistic Research with Situated Movidas
- Natalija Majsova: Memory Work as a Link Between the Past and the Future
Workshops
Series of public lectures 2022/2024
The Precarious Times Seminar
- Ewa Majewska: Gender and Precarity in the State of Exception. A Guide for the Perplexed.
- Katja Praznik: Countering Exploitation of Art Work from a Feminist Worker Organizing Viewpoint
- Lea Horvat: Thinking with Interruptions
- Mario Kikaš: Runaway Production: The Global Division of Labour in the Film Industry
The Precarious Times Seminar is organised by Kurziv – Platform for Media, Culture and Society and SCCA-Ljubljana in cooperation with the Human Rights Film Festival. The Seminar is part of the curriculum of the Kulturpunkt’s Journalism School and the World of Art School, but it is also open to the general public.
Series of public lectures 2021/2022
- Ivana Bago: The Title of Art and Its Expositions
- Discussion on Art Criticism: Associations of Art Critics
- Katrin Mundt: Curating Film and Video – A Self-Erasing Lecture
- Maximilian Lehner, Tia Čiček: Work, Curator, Work! Thinking and reading together about ways to do stuff
- Anca Mihuleţ: Exiting the Future. Considerations on Curatorial Self-effacement and the Valorization of Localities
Lecture by Katrin Mundt prepared in partnership with Goethe-Institut Ljubljana and the Slovenian Cinematheque
Lecture by Anca Mihuleţ supported by Kultura Nova Foundation.
Series of public lectures 2021/2022
In collaboration with Kurziv – Platform for Media, Culture and Society
In collaboration with Kurziv – Platform for Media, Culture and Society
The End of the World Seminar
The End of the World Seminar is organized by Kurziv – Platform for Media, Culture and Society and SCCA-Ljubljana in cooperation with the Human Rights Film Festival. The seminar is part of the curriculum of the Kulturpunkt’s Journalism School and the World of Art School, but it is also open to the general public.
Series of public lectures 2019
Parallel Systems. Establishing and Forming Media Art
- Miklós Peternák: CHANGING THE SYSTEM: THE INTERMEDIA MODEL. From Media Research to Intermedia 2.0 (1989–2019), lecture
- Suzana Milevska: WRITING ABOUT, WITH, AND OUTWARDS ART, workshop
- Media art and cutural policy, round table (in Slovene langauge)
- Siegfried Zielinski: PRO-SPECTIVE ARCHAEOLOGIES. Travelling through DEEP TIME OF THE MEDIA into Possible Futures, lecture
- Amy Ireland and Mikkel Thykier: Shanghai Frequencies, talk
- Sabine Himmelsbach: Curating Media Art offline and online, online lecture
- Katharina Gsöllpointner: Empatija v digitalnem prostoru
V sklopu šole Svet umetnosti pripravljamo tudi niz javnih predavanj in delavnic.
Niz javnih predavanj 2020
V sodelovanju z Društvom Igor Zabel za kulturo in teorijo in v partnerstvu z Goethe-Institutom Ljubljana
Paralelni sistemi. Vzpostavljanje in uveljavljanje intermedijske umetnosti
Jeseni 2020 napovedujemo predavanja Sabine Himmelsbach, Katharine Gsöllpointner in Domenica Quarante ter okroglo mizo s producenti intermedijskih festivalov: Pixxelpoint (Nova Gorica), KIBLIX (Maribor), MFRU (Maribor), Speculum Artium (Trbovlje) in festival sodobne umetnosti IZIS (obalna mesta).
Series of public lectures 2019
Parallel Systems. Establishing and Forming Media Art
- Miklós Peternák: CHANGING THE SYSTEM: THE INTERMEDIA MODEL. From Media Research to Intermedia 2.0 (1989–2019), lecture
- Suzana Milevska: WRITING ABOUT, WITH, AND OUTWARDS ART, workshop
- Media art and cutural policy, round table (in Slovene langauge)
- Siegfried Zielinski: PRO-SPECTIVE ARCHAEOLOGIES. Travelling through DEEP TIME OF THE MEDIA into Possible Futures, lecture
- Amy Ireland and Mikkel Thykier: Shanghai Frequencies, talk
Series of public lectures and workshops 2017/2018
Practices and Approaches
- Daniel Morgenthaler: Curating? Corating!, lecture
- Andrej Bereta: Curator vs Artist, workshop
- Andrej Bereta: Evaluation of an Exhibition, workshop
- Max Grau: Performing Knowledge, workshop
Series of public lectures 2016
in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory
How Critical Is The Condition of Critical Writing?
- Thijs Lijster: The Crisis of Criticism
- Thijs Lijster: Towards an “Espacement” of Criticism
- Ekaterina Degot: When Everybody is Critical, but Nobody is a Critic
- Maja Breznik: Presenting the Analysis “Where Has Fine-Art Criticism Gone?”
- Izidor Barši & Kaja Kraner (ŠUM): Discourses Accompanying Art
- Antonija Letinić: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Criticism?
- Fouad Asfour: Unlearning Art Writing
Series of public lectures 2014/2015
In collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory
How Critical Is The Condition of Critical Writing?
- Boris Buden: Art and Critique in Curating the Past, lecture
- Boris Buden: A conversation with Boris Buden upon the occasion of the Slovene translation of the Zone des Übergangs: Vom Ende des Postkommunismus.
- Lina Džuverović: Words Are People.* Text As Art And Art As Text
- Jelena Vesić: Critique in/or Crisis
- Jennifer Allen: The Work of Art Criticism in the Digital Era
- Edit András: The Trajectory of Criticism in the Time of Post-Socialist Nationalism
Reflections and Premises in Contemporary Art, Art Theory and Art History
- Suzana Milevska: The Troubled Relation Between Theory and Curatorial Practice
- Elke Krasny: Unplanned History – Writing It Down/Writing It Up as a Critical Curatorial Practice
- Jayme McLellan: Different models of support for emerging art and artists in the U.S./D.C.
- Paul O’Neill: Did Somebody Say Curating, Again? Recent Turns in Curatorial Practice
- Piotr Piotrowski: The Global NETwork. Approaching Comparative Art History
- Klara Kemp-Welch: Continuity and Rupture / Networking and Collaboration from the 70s to the 00s
Workshops
- Suzana Milevska: The Troubled Relation Between Theory and Curatorial Practice
- Elke Krasny: Unplanned History – Writing It Down/Writing It Up as a Critical Curatorial Practice
- Jayme McLellan: Different models of support for emerging art and artists in the U.S./D.C.
- Paul O’Neill: Did Somebody Say Curating, Again? Recent Turns in Curatorial Practice
Series of public lectures 2011/13
Curatorial and Institutional Practices
- Igor Zabel: Contemporary Art Theory: Book presentation and discussion
- Erik Hagoort, Diagonal Reciprocity. Thinking About Art Practices of Encounter
- Nataša Petrešin Bachelez: Situated artistic research and self-reflexive residency programmes
- Sønke Gau and Katharina Schlieben: Work to do! Or Caught between two stools: Questioning Production Conditions …
- Petra Kapš: Lethe or Mnemosyne for the fu-(ture) OR as omnipresent trinity: poiesis, techné, parrhesia
- Dorothee Richter: Artists and Curators as Authors – Competitors, Collaborators, or Teamworkers?
- Andrzej Szczerski: Curating and the importance of artwork
Workshops
- Miško Šuvaković: Art and Politics: Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy, Theory and Art in the Era of Global Transition
- Branislav Dimitrijević: Interpreting and Situating Contemporary Art: Observation, Participation, Motivation, Research and Empathy
- Petja Grafenauer: Workshop on Writing About Experimental Research and Exhibition Project “Video Turn”
Series of public lectures 2010/11
Curatorial and Institutional Practices
- Pau Cata (Consell Comarcal Llorenc del Penedes): An artist at the CeRCCa Residency. An auto-ethnographic perspective
- Nora Sternfeld and Luisa Ziaja: What comes after the show? On post-representational curating
- Joa Ljungberg and Edi Muka: Dreams, Failures and Achievements – Navigating through an institutional desert
- Maria Hlavajova: Negotiating Social and Political Urgencies in the Field of Artistic Practice. BAK, basis voor actuele kunst as a Case Study
- Maria Hlavajova: Negotiating Social and Political Urgencies in the Field of Artistic Practice. BAK, basis voor actuele kunst as a Case Study
Workshops
Series of public lectures 2008/09
Curatorial and Institutional Practices
- Angela Harutyunyan: Coming to You Not to Be With You
- Branislav Dimitrijević: Everything Is Gonna Be: Katarina Zdjelar and Zoran Todorović at The 53rd Biennale Di Venezia
- Suzana Milevska: Negotiations: Curatorial practice in the period of globalisation
- Eda Čufer: Occupation dramaturge, curator, editor
- Angela Harutyunyan: Interstices of History: Collective Writing and/as Curating
Workshops
- Ženja Leiler: Newspaper Critique
- Miško Šuvaković: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art
- Branislav Dimitrijević: Interpreting and Situating Contemporary Art: Observation, Participation, Motivation, Research and Empathy
- Neven Korda, Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik: Video Essay
Series of public lectures 2007/08
Curatorial and Institutional Practices
- Manray Hsu: Informal Politics and Contemporary Arts
- Suzana Milevska: Curator as a Translator
- Julian Stallabrass: Art Incorporated: Contemporary Art in a Neoliberal Climate
Workshops
- Miško Šuvaković: Comparative Theory and History of Art: Analysis
- Eda Čufer: Interview as a Tool of Conceptualisation
- Suzana Milevska: Collaborative Curating
- Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda: Video Essay
Series of public lectures 2006/07
Curatorial and Institutional Practices
- Clémentine Deliss: Plan for a Mobile Faculty of Arts
- Angela Harutyunyan : Importing “Curator”: Politics of Representation and Recognition in Contemporary Armenian Art
Workshops
Public lecture 2005/06
- Mike Hentz: Performance … What does it mean?
Workshops
- Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda: Video Essay
- Eda Čufer: Interview as a Tool for Conceptualisation
- Ješa Denegri: Historicizing Contemporary Art
- Mike Hentz: Different Aspects of Performance. Practical and Theoretical Exercises
- Miško Šuvaković: Construction of a Story of Modern Art and how to Conceptualise Critical Analysis
- Nadja Zgonik: Cataloguing Contemporaneity – A Text for a Catalogue
Workshops 2004/05
- Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda: Video Essay
- Eda Čufer: Interview
- Ješa Denegri: Historicizing Contemporary Art
- Ženja Leiler: Newspaper Critique
- Miško Šuvaković: Theory and Practice of Art Critique and Theory and Practice of Art Critique Part II
- Igor Zabel: Catalogue Text
Workshops 2003/04
- Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda: Video Essay
- Tomaž Brejc: Interpretation of an Art Work
- Boris Buden: Column
- Ješa Denegri: Historicizing Contemporary Art
- Miško Šuvaković: Theory and Practice of Art Critique
- Igor Zabel: Catalogue Text
- Ženja Leiler: Newspaper Critique
Series of public lectures 2001/03
Strategies of Presentation II & III
- Boris Buden: Art as a Political Intervention: The Austrian Case
- Anne Cartel, David Dronet: Multimedia cultural centre Station Mir
- Charles Esche: The possibility forum – institutional change and modest proposals
- Daniel Jewesbury: Scopo
- Ivana Keser: Author’s Newspaper: The Freedom of Misinformation
- Viktor Misiano: Strategies of Exhibiting from Modernisation towards De-Modernisation
- Tadej Pogačar: This Is What You Want – This Is What You Get
- Donatella Ruttar, Moreno Miorelli: Stazione di Topolo
- Nevenka Šivavec: The Lure of the Local
- ŠKART: Pesme koje su pobegle
- WHW: In Between: Independence and the Lures of Institutionalisation
Series of public lectures 2000/01
Strategies of Presentation I
- Clémentine Deliss: Metronome: Curatorial Practice and Research beyond Exhibitions
- Branislav Dimitrijević: The Grand Compromise: On Examples of the Use of Political References in Serbian Art of the
90’s, and its Historical Background - Marion von Osten, Peter Spillman in Susanna Perin: Euro-Vision of the World of Art
- Mike Hentz: Translation
- Marko Košnik: Abstraction and Action
- Oliver Marchart: Political Strategies as Artistic Strategies: The Use of Multiple Names
- Olesya Turkina: St. Petersburg’s Neo-academism. Revival of the Great Story
- Miha Zadnikar: Restructuring Subculture
Series of public lectures 1999
Geopolitics and Art
- Charles Harrison: The Merits of Incompetence
- Jaroslav Andel: Art’s shifting Grounds: The Case of Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic
- Călin Dan: Geography of Doom. An Estimate of Possibilities
- Borut Vogelnik: The privatisation of time
- Dušan Rutar: Digital Aesthetics, global Images and Ethics of New Tribalism
- Edi Muka: Permanent Instability
- Marko Peljhan: Permanent Instability
Series of public lectures 1998
Theories of Display
- Stephen Bann: Display Across the Ages
- Ute Meta Bauer: Do-It-Yourself: Exhibitions by Artists during the 20th Century
- Nadja Zgonik: The Role of National Identity Research in Theories of Display in Slovenia: Between Past and Present
- Konstantin Akinsha: Notes on the Underground
- Tadej Pogačar: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art and New Parasitism
- Igor Zabel: Exhibition Strategies in the Nineties: A Few Examples from Slovenia
- Vuk Ćosić: Net.Art, the Text
Series of public lectures 1996/1997
Conceptual Art in the 60’s and 70’s
(In Slovene language only)
- Igor Zabel: Načeli serije in programa v ohojevski umetnosti
- Lilijana Stepančič: Body art in OHO
- Miško Šuvaković: Konceptualna umetnost v Srbiji
- Antje von Graevenitz: Umetnikova osebnost kot sredstvo konceptualne umetnosti v Nemčiji
- Charles Harrison: Konceptualna umetnost in problem predstavitve
- László Beke: Konceptualna umetnost v vzhodni Srednji Evropi
- Branka Stipančić: Radikalna umetnost iz Hrvaške
The timeline with school’s twenty-year long continuity in educational process and a review of the public lectures, seminars and workshops, produced in collaboration with local and international lecturers and institutions, was presented at the exhibition re- Exhibition on the Occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the World of Art at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana.
The timeline provided a reading at three levels: through the list of guest lecturers that have prepared public lectures, workshops and seminars; through the range of citations; and through the key concepts that have contributed to the understanding of the developments and issues in the field of both, contemporary curatorial, as well as visual, practices and theories.