Round table – Critical Art and Responsible Culture: Without Anaesthesia!

SEEcult.org is organizing the round table “Critical art and responsible culture: Without Anaesthesia!” which will be held on December 7 2009 at the Goethe-Institut Belgrade.


The participants are artists and curators from Belgrade, Ljubljana, Skopje and Zagreb, and discussion will be moderated by Maja Ćirić, a Belgrade based independent curator and art critic.

The panelists are artist Vladan Jeremić (Belgrade), cultural worker and curator Nataša Bodrožić (Zagreb), and artists Milena Kosec (Ljubljana) and Igor Toševski (Skopje).

The aim of the discussion is questioning critical art as unforeseen impulse of dominant cultural-political paradigm and emphasizing anti-politics as an alternative to anticipated politics – direct and impotence politicization.

Discussion emphasizes anti-politics which would stimulate effective responsible culture, questioning positions, praxis and models of critical art through four examples from the region – what are the impulses and intensity of critical art and responsible culture – representation or intervention? Status quo or step forward? Confrontation or manipulation? State cultural engineering or partial, but focused individual praxis?

The round table is organized by Belgrade based portal for culture SEEcult.org in cooperation with the partners from the region – Kulturpunkt.hr (Croatia), SCCA Ljubljana/Artservis (Slovenia), and ForumSkopje (Macedonia).

The round table is organized in the frame of the regional project Let’s Talk Critic Arts (LTCA) initiated by SEEcult.org in cooperation with partners from the region. The LTCA project is supported by ECF – European Cultural Foundation, and the round table is organized with support of the Goethe-Institut Belgrade/Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

Andrej Rozman - Roza & Tomaž Dernovšek - Vinči

Public interview
Friday, October 9, 2009, at 7 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Moderated by Tanja Lesničar Pučko.


The public interview will present the two authors who established a successful self-organization. Although coming from different fields, their non-bureaucratic operation and unconventional activities are what they have in common. The guests will speak about their strategies, methods, experiences and aims.
Andrej Rozman - Roza is the founder, director and member of the smallest possible theatre (Rozinteater) and recently the founder of a religion community. Tomaž Dernovšek - Vinči is the founder and director of the Museum of Too Modern Art located in former stable in Spodnji Hotič.

Andrej Rozman - Roza
Poet, writer, dramatist, actor and translator. Between 1981 and 1995 he was the leader of the alternative Ana Monro Theatre and the initiator of improvisational theatre sports league in Slovenia. He writes parodies, comical lyrics, fairies and theater comedies for adults and children. He adopts, translates and modernizes classical texts. In March 2003, he founded Rozinteater as the smallest possible theatre.
Roza

Tomaž Dernovšek - Vinči
The Museum of Too Modern Art reflects the points of view of contemporary artists in the humorous and critical way. At 1000 m2 exhibition space there is a permanent exhibition with the art works of seven established artists from Slovenia and Europe. The gallery space hosts solo exhibitions of renowned local and international artists.
The Museum of Too Modern Art
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The concept of the event: Marija Mojca Pungerčar
Information: T: + 386 (0) 1 431 83 85 (Dušan Dovč, Marija Mojca Pungerčar)
E: info@artservis.org
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The public interview is a part of the project Let's Talk Critic Art (2009-2010) which examines the critical aspects of contemporary arts (round tables, public interviews), documents them, and archives them (online documentation, publication).
The project is conducted by the cultural portal SEEcult.org (Serbia) with the partners SCCA-Ljubljana / Artservis (Slovenia), Kulturpunkt (Croatia), and Forum Skopje (Macedonia).
The partners are the members of the informal network of cultural portals inSEEcp. It was founded in 2006 with the aim of connecting the editorial boards of the portals and stimulating the international cultural collaboration in the former Yugoslave countries.

The project Let's Talk Critic Art is financially supported by European Cultural Foundation.

Self-organizing of Artists for the Improvement of their Position

Round table
Friday, October 9, 2009, at 11 am
Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia





Moderated by Maks Soršak.
Panelists: Marija Mojca Pungerčar (Artservis), Jadranka Ljubičič (Odprta zbornica), Jurij Krpan (Asociacija), Denis Miklavčič (SUKI at Glosa), Nemanja Cvijanović (artist, Reka/Venezia), Dragoslav Krnajski (artist, Belgrade).

The round table Self-organizing of Artists for the Improvement of their Position is dedicated to the status and position of the cultural workers with a special emphasis on their initiatives that attempt to improve their working conditions. The guests from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia will explain the main reason for the self-organizing cultural forms on the local and national level, what their purpose is and what they have already achieved. They will talk about the circumstances of their activities and their tactics in self-organization. They will also present the extent of the dialogue established with the state or city authorities in solving the problem of the conditions of cultural production and the formal status of the artists, as well as in improving the system of social transfers for artists etc.

The panelists are the representatives of art & civil society initiatives from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia or the self-organized artists/cultural workers (formal or informal associations, syndicates, and media) that strive to improve the conditions of production in art and culture.
The aim of the round table is to inform the public about the activities of the self-organized cultural initiatives on the national and international level and to stimulate cultural workers to get connected and embark on collaboration.

The round table is a part of the project Let's Talk Critic Art (2009-2010) which examines the critical aspects of contemporary arts (round tables, public interviews), documents them, and archives them (online documentation, publication).
The project is conducted by the cultural portal SEEcult.org (Serbia) with the partners SCCA-Ljubljana / Artservis (Slovenia), Kulturpunkt (Croatia), and Forum Skopje (Macedonia).
The partners are the members of the informal network of cultural portals inSEEcp. It was founded in 2006 with the aim of connecting the editorial boards of the portals and stimulating the international cultural collaboration in the former Yugoslave countries.

The project Let's Talk Critic Art is financially supported by European Cultural Foundation.

Third World Culturelink Conference

call for papers - programme - registration form

Networks – The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century Zagreb, Croatia, 13-15 November 2009 With the support of: UNESCO Office in Venice - UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe (BRESCE); Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos); Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia; Ministry of Culture, Croatia Call for Papers  The Culturelink Network celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, we are organizing the Third World Culturelink Conference under the title "Networks – The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century", to be held from 13 to 15 November 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia. The conference is envisaged to bring together Culturelink Network's members, researchers, professionals, and many others who perceive networking as one of the most intriguing phenomenon of contemporary culture. The Third World Culturelink Conference will aim to investigate the role and relevance that cultural networks hold for cultural development. A retrospective overview of the cultural networks phenomena in the past 20 years will pose as grounds for debate on new perspectives of cultural networking in the 21st century. Special consideration will be given to issues regarding the position of cultural networks within cultural policies structures, as well as to the effective usage of innovative ICT and networking applications that significantly develop the modes and scopes of activities of cultural networks. The event will include discussions on the promotion and affirmation of cultural diversity and intercultural communication through networking processes and will closely look at case studies from all regions of the world, thus providing comparative examples and experiences on a global level. We invite the submission of papers to be included in the Third World Culturelink Conference programme. Paper abstracts should thematically correspond to the themes and topics listed in the preliminary conference agenda. Conference participants interested in holding a paper/presentation, should comply with the following requirements: all prospective speakers must submit a presentation proposal and a short CV, presentation proposals should be given a precise title that falls well within the scope of the chosen programme theme, and proposals should be submitted in the form of a written Abstract or Executive Summary on not more than one page (approx. 500 words). All proposals should be submitted for revision by 15 July 2009 to clinkconf@irmo.hr. Conference languages are Croatian, English, French and Spanish. For the conference programme, please see here. Contact: Conference Secretariat, Culturelink/IMO, P.O. Box 303, Vukotinovićeva 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877490; fax: +385-1-4828361; e-mail: clinkconf@irmo.hr; http://www.culturelink.org/clinkconf.html

Forum Skopje 2009: The Aftershock of the Postmodernism

This year's Forum Skopje will be held from 8th to 14th of June at Mala Stanica in Skopje (Macedonia) hosting numerous European and regional architects and urban theoreticians. The concept of this year’s debate would give accent to the newest rises in the City Center, seen as antonyms to the Postmodern's philosophy. The subject of this year’s debate is set to be: the Aftershock of the Postmodernism.


Participants: Erich Raith, Sergej Nikoljski, Biljana Stefanovska, Ivan Rupnik, Antonio Petrov, Marko Sančanin, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Vera Martinez, Christiano Lepratti, Maren Harnack, Kai Vöckler, Gabriele Reiterer, Ines Tolic, Aleksandar Petrov, Maximilian Hartmuth and Ivan Mirkovski.

Programme:
8 June, 19:00h
Pre-opening night
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery
The Caffe

Lecture by: Antonio Petrov (Harvard University, Wasx.org Architecture - USA)
"Presentness and the Cultures of the Aftershock(s): Critical Formations of the Creative Unemployed"

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9 June, 19:00h
Opening night
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery
The Caffe

Jazz concert: the Georgi Sareski Quartet
Exhibition opening: 90 Years Bauhaus

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10 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions

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11 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions

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12 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions

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13 June, 19:00h
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

round table night sessions


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14 June
Mala Stanica, Upper level gallery

last day activities
the student workshop presentation

Forum 'Culture 2007-2013 Programme – possibilities of co-operation'

Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Cultural Contact Point Croatia and Croatian Movement & Dance Institute in cooperation with Cultural Contact Points Austria and Slovenia on June 1st at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb.

Programme:
 
9.00-9.15   Registration

9.15-9.30  Foreword: Božo Biškupić, Minister of Culture
 
Presentations:

9.30- 9.45  Vesna Jurić Bulatović ( Museum for Arts and Crafts, Zagreb)

9.45-10.15  Stephane Re (Institut Française de Zagreb) and Emma Lecoeur ( L’Oreal Croatia)

10.15-10.45  Alemka Lisinski (T-Hrvatski Telekom) and Snježana Pintarić (Musem of Contemporary Art, Zagreb)

10.45-11.15  Marina Dijaković (Zagrebačka banka) and Vesna Kusin (Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb)

11.15-11.45  Polona Lovšin (Riko Group, Slovenia) and Ranko Novak (Brumen Foundation, Slovenia)
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11.45-12.30  Coffee break
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12.30-13.00  Dubravka Jusić (Vipnet) and Ivica Prlender (Dubrovačke ljetne igre)

13.00-13.30  Leonie Hodkevitch (Austria): ”Sponsoring: Alter Ego in Arts”

13.30-14.00  CCPs Austria, Slovenia and Croatia: Presentation of the Culture 2007-2013 programme

14.00-14.30  Matjaž Farič and Ksenija Kaučič (Flota, Slovenia), Manfred Biskup and Liz King (Verein für Neue Tanzformen, Austria), Alfred Masal (Offenes Haus Oberwart, Austria), Barna Petrany (Pro Progressione, Hungary), Mirna Žagar (Croatian Movement & Dance Institute, Croatia): Dance Explorations Beyond Front@

14.30-15.00  DISCUSSION/ CONCLUSION

(Source: CCP Croatia)

ONLINE/OFFLINE festival in Skopje, Macedonia

The two Macedonian portals, members of inSEEcp, www.culture.in.mk and www.plagij.at are founders of the ONLINE/OFFLINE festival. inSEEcp members Vesna Milosavljevic (SEEcult) and Dusan Dovc (Evrokultura) are also taking part in the festival.

Supported by Pro Helvetia – Skopje, the ONLINE/OFFLINE festival, true to its name, has an online and an offline component.


The offline component is taking place in Skopje on 22 and 23 January 2009. It starts with a blogging workshop entitled 'Blogging and networking tools for artists', lead by blogger Deborah Hustic aka lomodeedee (Personal Cyber Botanica) from Zagreb, and targeting especially artists and cultural operators. 

A discussion under the title Where Is Culture, Where Is the Audience? will follow, involving not only the representatives of culture portals, but also editors of other popular, fun-oriented portals, and the audience. It will deal with the issues of interest, presentation, content, technology, social networking and web 2.0 modules and will attempt to respond to the issue of attracting audiences to culture, through portals as intermediaries in the process. The evening will end with the Plagij.at listening party.

On the second day, Artservis’ Dusan Dovc will present its Art Suitcase, featuring digital art on the topic of the survival in the art world. It will also pack within works by Macedonian artists. An exhibition of photographs from previous Plagij.at events and the festival will be closed with a concert of the Serbian band Petrol and Macedonian all-girl band Vivid.

The online part of the festival will be continuously updated and will consist of two blogs jointly managed by www.culture.in.mk and www.plagij.at. The addresses onlineoffline.wordpress.com and offline2online.wordpress.com will feature formats previously unused by the two portals – collections of works of relevant Macedonian artists, also their recommendations on other artists worth exploring, longer journalistic forms (interviews, reviews …) as well as audio and video features. Through the process of collaboration with the artists and journalists covering culture, we will aim to find the right format, satisfying the artistic criteria, while still being attractive for a wide audience. Also, one of the main role of the joint blogs, considering that a large part of portals’ visitors come from abroad, is to provide a more immersive cultural and artistic experience to audiences who cannot physically attend the events in question.