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> Summer Seminars for Art Curators
> Between Exposition and Mediation
> July 23-August 7, 2007, Yerevan, Armenia
>
> Daedline for application: April 15, 2007
>
> After successfully completing and summarizing the results of the  
> first international summer school for art curators organized in  
> July 4-17, 2006 in Yerevan, Armenia, the National Association of  
> Art Critics (NAAC) now intends to further develop the program  
> focusing on partnership and networking with regional actors in the  
> field of art criticism and curating.
>
> The first year's summer school brought together prospective and  
> already practicing young curators from former socialist countries  
> (from Slovenia Monika Ivancic and Tevz Logar) and Turkey into a  
> lively and productive environment of workshops and seminars.
>
> The summer seminars' program 2007 is organized in collaboration  
> with SCCA-Ljubljana, Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Alma Aty  
> and BM Center for Contemporary Art, Istanbul.
>
> The 2007 summer seminars and the workshop for art curators will  
> center on the relation of the art critic and curator on the one  
> hand and curator-artist on the other, in the face of globalization/ 
> westernization of the art market and big exhibitions; i. e.  
> biennales, art fairs and festivals as one of the outcomes of these  
> processes that have penetrated into former socialist countries  
> since the mid-1990's. The program will focus on curating as a  
> critical practice, and particularly, the curator as someone who  
> combines the management of relations (artist-curator, artist- 
> critics and artist-society) with the function of evaluation. We  
> will discuss historically and culturally unique art events and  
> practices where the curator combining the roles of a presenter and  
> a critic has chosen different strategies of display and mediation.
>
> The deadline for submitting applications is April 15, 2007.
> All the applications should arrive before the closing date. The  
> applications and related materials should be submitted to the  
> relevant partner-organization in your region by e-mail.
>
> Please, see the information below for submission information  
> according to your country of residence. NAAC's partner institutions  
> will choose several applications for the first round of the  
> competition and forward it to NAAC in early April. The second and  
> final round will be carried out and the funding decisions will be  
> made by NAAC. The final results will be announced by May 15, 2007.
>
> Residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic,  
> Hungary, Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia  
> and Slovakia should send the applications and supporting materials  
> by post or e-mail to Sasa Nabergoj or Tevz Logar, e-mail:  
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Summer school application and guidelines:
> www.worldofart.org/aktualno/archives/72
>
> If you have any further questions concerning the summer school  
> program, please, do not hesitate to consult:
>
> Contact:
> SCCA-Ljubljana (office hours: 11.00-15.00)
> Contact persons: Saša Nabergoj (head of World of Art), Tevž Logar  
> (coordinator of World of Art)
> Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, phone: 00 386 41 367 425, fax: 00 386  
> 1 430 06 29
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Additional information:
> SCCA-Ljubljana, World of Art: www.worldofart.org
> National Association of Art Critics, Summer School 2007:  
> www.naac.am/html/htmeng/indexeng.htm