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MIcropolitics_lecture series_Nora Sternfeld: Contradictions. Education & the Questionmark within
In the sphere of art and exhibitions, increased attention has recently been devoted to the mediation of art. Documenta 12 was accompanied by two large publications dedicated to the mediation of art, whereas Irit Rogoff even speaks about the “educational turn in curating”. Education as a critical practice has been attributed an emancipating potential. Rogoff focuses on the intermediate spaces and the spaces of action where publics are created and where unexpected encounters take place. In this way museums and exhibitions sometimes depart from their paternalistic history as spaces with open doors for everybody and they become public spaces: places of critique and agency. At the same time, institutions are under growing pressure because of neoliberal conditions. Therefore, education in connection with exhibitions has many other tasks: sponsors must be convinced that the mediation of art increases the value of their investment, institutions must fulfill their educational task, uncertain working conditions must be accepted, and last but not least, visitors must become interested and eventually satisfied. How radical can education be in these conditions? Where is the position of the mediation of art in the old conflict between the institutional critique and institutionalisation? And how can education be meant as a rebellious, reflective practice leading to changes?
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Goran Skofic_ White_18.10.-06.11. 2010.
'Reminiscent of the “tricks” of Georges Melies, the “gags” and mime of silent film, or even the somewhat earlier chrono-photography, the art of Goran Škofić, which uses black and white image and hybrid sound, approaches in an intriguing way the archaeology of the media, the times when pictures started to move. Škofić rhythmically orchestrates the visual character of image and movements of the post-human body by using montage that comes close to a sort of “visual stuttering”. In flickering scenes, broken images, and scratching sound, one finds features reminiscent of the beginning of cinematic pictures, creating a link with history through the media, with the support of the new technical possibilities of digital technology. ..'
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The Culture Lobby: An Archive of Cultural Memory_Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 8 pm
The Culture Lobby is a long-term collaborative project, aimed at creating a participatory, 'active archive' of cultural memory in the Western Balkans. The archive consists of photographic, audio and textual material, and is based on an open process of communication with citizens of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, and their vision of transformations following the process of their countries joining the EU.
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Dina Roncevic: Suck Squeeze Bang Blow_ Part of: Academy Files II_ Friday, June 11, 2010 at 8 pm
The exhibition 'Suck Squeeze Bang Blow' by the young artist Dina Roncevic brings all the segments of her four-year process of acquiring the car mechanic diploma, simultaneously transforming it into her graduate theses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Dina's work examines gender roles in the academic and educational environment as well as the conditions through which identity is created within the wider social context.
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