{"id":459,"date":"2011-09-16T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/current\/?page_id=459"},"modified":"2015-05-26T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:00:12","slug":"misko-suvakovic-art-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/14th-year-20112013\/workshops\/misko-suvakovic-art-and-politics","title":{"rendered":"Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107: Art and Politics: Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy, Theory and Art in the Era of Global Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WORLD OF ART<br \/>\nSchool for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art<br \/>\nSeason 14<br \/>\n1st Year (November 2011\u2013June 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Workshop on writing about contemporary art<\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 23, 2012, from 10.00\u201318.30<br \/>\nProject Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana<\/p>\n<p>Participants: Anja Bajda, Majda Gregori\u010d, Marta Ki\u0161, Ne\u017ea Mrevlje, Vid Lenard, Nina Ro\u0161kar, Ma\u0161a \u0160krinjar, Igor Vidmar and participants of the 14th year of World of Art.   <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I will talk about the relationship between art and politics in contemporary culture and society. My intention is to show how it can be theoretized contemporary art and politics from the perspective of cultural and biopolitical theories. Contemporary relations between art and politics may be identified as a field of obsessions and phantasms about representing the &#8221;truth of the world\/life&#8221;, or, alternatively, as a field of obsessions and phantasms about performing the &#8221;regulation of world\/life&#8221;. When one crosses from the field of the &#8221;politics of seeing&#8221;, i.e. spectacularisation into the field of discussing specific formations in the history of art, one may establish the following descriptive model:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in the avant-gardes (ranging from futurism to surrealism through constructivism), spectacularisation was projected by means of utopian ideas about realizing the revolutionary-new in the industrial society \u2013 it concerned progress, speed, and turning from individual to mass consumption,<\/li>\n<li>in the neo-avant-gardes (neo-constructivism, kinetic art, eco-art, robotics in art), spectacularisation was realized by deriving a concrete utopia of a synthesis between science and art, by means of laboratory research conducted by artists and groups of artists modeled after scientific research teams,<\/li>\n<li>the spectacularisation of postmodern culture, the one between high and popular culture, was performed by means of a totalizing and eclectic mass consumer culture (nomadic pop, mimesis of mimesis, neo-expressionism, neo-conceptualism) in relation to the ideological suggestions of depoliticizing politics with regard to the postmodern meta-languages of power \u2013 science, technology, politics, and art are shown as cultural categories of consumption, and<\/li>\n<li>the spectacularisation of transition and globalism is based on an economically motivated expansion of the scientific and technological infrastructures into the field of &#8221;abstract knowledge&#8221; as a source of the production of affective situations in the field of art and culture (activist art, critical art, political art, bio art, internet art, cyberart, digital art, new performance art).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Artistic acting within these practices switches from exploring aesthetics and poetics to a politics of affect, which means publicly confronting the potentialities of regulating and deregulating forms of life. Acting in public has essentially changed. It occurs simultaneously in entirely incommensurable regimes, from that of the traditional public (to be, to speak, and to act in the street, among people), to the indeterminate mass-cultural modes of bourgeois-society &#8221;public opinion&#8221;, through the media hybridity and incomparability of contemporary everzday culture.<\/p>\n<p>My task is to show how we could write &#8221;new theory&#8221; for &#8221;new time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will be in Serbian language.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Timetable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 23, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10.00\u201311.30: Contemporary art<br \/>\n12.00\u201313.30: The right on theory (theory, philosophy and resistance in arts)<br \/>\n15.00\u201316.30: Tactics of self organization (activism, terrorism and self education in art)<br \/>\n17.00\u201318.30: How to write contemporary theory?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 3px; margin-left: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2008-09\/seminar\/voditelji\/misko-suvakovic.jpg\" alt=\"Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" \/><strong>Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107 (1954)<\/strong><br \/>\nMi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107 was born in 1954 in Belgrade (Serbia). He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade since 1993. Full professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, where he additionally teaches art theory at the Interdisciplinary postgraduate program. Formerly a member of the conceptual art group Grupa 143 (1975\u201380) and informal theoretical community Zajednica za istra\u017eivanje prostora \u2013 ZzIP [Space research community \u2013 ZzIP] (1982\u201389). Editor of the independent journal <em>Mentalni prostor<\/em> [<em>Mental space<\/em>] (Belgrade, 1982\u201387). Member of the editorial board for the journals <em>Transkatalog<\/em> (Novi Sad, 1995\u20131998) and <em>Teorija koja Hoda<\/em> [<em>Walking theory<\/em>] (Belgrade, since 2001). Honorary member of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics. His books include <em>Scene jezika<\/em> [<em>Scenes of language<\/em>] (Belgrade, 1989), <em>Pas Tout<\/em> (Buffalo, 1994), <em>Prolegomena za analiti\u010dku estetiku<\/em> [<em>Prolegomena for analytical aesthetics<\/em>] (Novi Sad, 1995), <em>Postmoderna<\/em> [<em>Postmodernism<\/em>] (Belgrade, 1995), <em>Asimetri\u010dni drugi<\/em> [<em>The asymmetrical other<\/em>] (Novi Sad, 1996), <em>Estetika apstraktnog slikarstva<\/em> [<em>Aesthetics of abstract painting<\/em>] (Belgrade, 1998), <em>Pojmovnik moderne i postmoderne likovne umetnosti i teorije posle 1950<\/em> [<em>Glossary of modern and post-modern visual arts and theory after 1950<\/em>] (Belgrade and Novi Sad, 1999), <em>Paragrami tela\/figure<\/em> [<em>Paragrams of body\/figure<\/em>] (Belgrade, 2001), <em>Anatomija angelova<\/em> [<em>Anatomy of angels<\/em>] (Ljubljana, 2001), <em>Figura, askeza in perverzija<\/em> [<em>Figure, asceticism and perversion<\/em>] (Koper, 2001), <em>Martek \u2013 Fatalne figure umjetnika: Eseji o umjetnosti i kulturi XX stolje\u0107a u Jugoisto\u010dnoj, Isto\u010dnoj i Srednjoj Europi kroz djelovanje umjetnika Vlade Marteka<\/em> [<em>Martek \u2013 Fatal figures of the artist: essays on 20th-century art and culture in South-Eastern, Eastern and Central Europe through the work of Vlado Martek<\/em>] (Zagreb, 2002), <em>Impossible Histories \u2013 Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918\u20131991<\/em> (Cambridge Mass, 2003), <em>Politike slikarstva<\/em> [<em>The politics of painting<\/em>] (Koper, 2004), <em>Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti<\/em> [<em>Glossary of contemporary art<\/em>] (Zagreb and Ghent, 2005), <em>Konceptualna umetnost<\/em> [<em>Conceptual art<\/em>] (Novi Sad, 2007), <em>Epistemology of Art<\/em> (Belgrade, 2008) etc. He has curated more than 20 exhibitions since 1978. Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, 2009\u20132010.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>How to apply?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Send the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scca-ljubljana.si\/prijavnice\/prijavnica11-13-Suvakovic-eng.doc\"><strong>electronic application form<\/strong><\/a> to our e-mail: svetumetnosti@scca-ljubljana.si or by post to SCCA-Ljubljana, Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana. <\/p>\n<p>The price of the workshop is for individuals <strong>20 \u20ac<\/strong> eur and for institutions <strong>30 \u20ac<\/strong> (with DDV). The copy of paid receipt is a precondition for participation in the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The number of available places is limited to <strong>10<\/strong> participants. We will accept applications till these paces are filled!<br \/>\n<strong>Application deadline: 19. 3. 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SCCA-Ljubljana (office hours: 9.00\u201313.00)<br \/>\nContact persons: Simona \u017dvanut in Sa\u0161a Nabergoj<br \/>\nMetelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana<br \/>\nPhone: (01) 431 83 85<br \/>\ne-mail: svetumetnosti@scca-ljubljana.si<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photos from the lecture:<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica01.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"293px\"style=\"float:left\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica07.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"293px\"style=\"float:left\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica02.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"165px\" style=\"float:left\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica03.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"165px\" style=\"float:left\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica04.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"165px\" style=\"float:left\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica05.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"165px\" style=\"float:left\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica06.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"165px\" style=\"float:left\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/aktualno\/wp-content\/2011-13\/suvakovic\/suvakovic-delavnica08.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop with Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107\" width=\"220px\" height=\"165px\" style=\"float:left\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORLD OF ART School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary Art Season 14 1st Year (November 2011\u2013June 2012) Workshop on writing about contemporary art Friday, March 23, 2012, from 10.00\u201318.30 Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana Participants: Anja Bajda, Majda Gregori\u010d, Marta Ki\u0161, Ne\u017ea Mrevlje, Vid Lenard, Nina Ro\u0161kar, Ma\u0161a \u0160krinjar, Igor Vidmar and participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-woa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/2873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}