I have forwarded this - a little late, alas - as it is a notice for a
course designed for curators... crumb welcomes reports from anyone who
was able to attend.


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> World of Art 2001/2002
> Series of lectures Strategies of Presentation 2
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> World of Art is an educational program on theory and practice in
> contemporary visual art.
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> Its fifth year is launching the Course for Curators of Contemporary
> Arts, Workshops Documents and Proposals and a series of lectures
> entitled Strategies of Presentation 2. Within this year's series we
> have invited eight artists, curators and critics to present their own
> curatorial and artistic practices, by definition more innovative and
> challenging than main-stream ones as established within the art system.
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> This year's series will be brought to an end by Boris Buden with his
> lecture entitled Art as a Political Intervention: The Austrian Case on
> Wednesday, 9th October at 8 pm in Galerija Kapelica on Kersnikova 4,
> Ljubljana.
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> Boris Buden is a philosopher, researcher and writer on art, culture and
> politics. After his initial start in Zagreb he moved to Vienna in 1990
> where he currently lives and works. He was the editor of the Zagreb
> newspaper Arkzin, and currently he is one of the editors of the
> Viennese newspaper Springerin. He co-operated at numerous projects,
> amongst others at the platforms of Documenta 11 in Vienna, New Delhi
> and Kassel.  He translated a number of books (amongst others Freud,
> Helmut Dahmer, etc.), wrote various articles (amongst others for Polet,
> Quorom, Feral Tribune, etc.) as well as published three books (a
> collection of political and cultural criticism essays Barikade
> (Barricades) in 1996, a revised and extended edition Barikade 2
> (Barricades 2) in 1997 and a book of cultural and social criticism
> essays Kaptolski kolodvor (Kaptol railway station) in 2001).
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> The lecture Art as a Political Intervention: The Austrian Case will
> discuss the movements in the Austrian cultural and art scene following
> the great election success and the entry of Haider's liberal party into
> the government. It was this social sphere that prepared the most
> radical rebellion against the new political situation. The best example
> of the intervention of art with politics was the Viennese initiative
> Gettoatack, a collective protest action carried out by artists, left
> oriented liberal intellectuals and youth. Following the trend of
> growing politisation of art in the German cultural and artistic field
> from the beginning of the 1990's this initiative has, during a certain
> period, became the main catalyst of the social criticism of the
> paralysed Austrian political system. However, at the recent fall of
> Schuessl's government the connection between the artistic interventions
> and the so long awaited political turnover failed to be established.
> The lecture will be held in Croatian.
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> Admission is free!
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> Cordially invited.
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> Sasa Glavan
> director of World of Art program
> SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana
> Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
> Tel.: 00 386 1 431 83 85, fax: 00 386 1 430 06 29
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> www.ljudmila.org/scca
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