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Gallery space is a live
organism and a communications base
between art and the public, always,
bearing traces of times past. It is
precisely the history of Škuc Gallery
and its role that we see as an important
platform for inviting artists who some
time ago already exhibited in the
gallery. This activity, presenting
artists, who actively contribute to the
international art scene (in the past two
years we organised exhibitions by the
Irwin collective, Marko Jakše, and
Mladen Stilinović) are an important part
of the programme. For 2006 we have
invited Tadej Pogačar and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E
Museum of Contemporary Art. His last
exhibition at Škuc Gallery was in 1996.
From 18 April to 12 May
P74 Center and Gallery, and Škuc Gallery
will hold an exhibition entitled
TADEJ POGAČAR & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum
of Contemporary Art: From the Street,
which features an overview of actions
and projects, carried out at different
urban sites and in the street, a spatial
construction, and a presentation of a
new MonApoly board game. The
common denominator of the installations
in Škuc Gallery, and P74 Center and
Gallery, is questioning of the public
space, social interaction, collaboration
and exchange in public space.
In the mid-1990s Pogačar
organised a public project entitled
Kings of the Street, which included
collaboration with the homeless in
Ljubljana, Stockholm, and Berlin, and
which examined the models of parallel
economies. Parallel systems are the
central topic of his projects and
research, spanning over many years.
Tadej Pogačar sees the street as a
complex space, where different spatial,
social, and economic systems meet.
His interest in the
street arises from a general interest in
the modern metropolis, its structures,
networks, and the processes, which
generate an invisible skyline of the
city, and its inherent social relations.
In the spring of 2004
Tadej Pogačar participated at the PR 04
Biennial in Puerto Rico. Together with
American artists Deidra Hoguet and Peter
Walsh he organised an alternative
carrying of the Olympic
torch. While only the athletes represent
their countries at the Olympics, all
inhabitants participated in the relay
run and carrying of the Olympic torch in
Puerto Rico. They did not run for their
country but for personal reasons. On 28
June 2004 in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
inhabitants and artists united in an
Olympic run to celebrate the opening of
the Biennial.
Public actions
Temporary Autonomous
Territory I
(2002) and Temporary
Autonomous Territory II (2003,
carried out in Graz and Mexico City) are
participatory projects and interventions
in public space. They are practical
research in unplanned architecture,
closely related to everyday life and its
transformations.
Street Economies
archival project documents street
transactions and models of exchange in
different urban environments on
different continents. Street sale is an
important segment of a national economy,
its turnover amounting in some countries
to more than a half of the value of
official transactions. During the
economic crisis in the 1980s, in Mexico
City street sellers as self-employed
provided most of the most important
services.
MonApoly (2002-2003)
is the new cartography of global trade
with people and sex work, taking on the
form of a board game. Instead of
accumulating capital, it explains the
geopolitics of sex work in the era of
global economy. Visually, it follows the
Monopoly, but the contents are
completely new. By playing we acquire
information on activist organisations,
crime gangs, forced migrations, etc.
Tadej Pogačar is an
internationally acclaimed visual and
inter-media artist. He participated in
some of the most important contemporary
art events, and exhibited in the most
prominent art institutions, including
Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam, 49th Venice
Bienniale, After the Wall
exhibition at the Moderna Museet in
Stockholm, Stedelijk Museum in
Amsterdam, Art in General in New York,
ZKM Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media,
Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City,
Ujezdowski Castle in Warsaw, Galerie für
Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig,
Humbolt University in Berlin, Jyväskylä
Art Museum in Finland, and NOVA Gallery
in Zagreb.
Last year he participated
at the 2nd Prague Biennial and the 3rd
Tirana Biennial. He has been invited to
this year's Sao Paulo Biennial.
This year he will have
solo exhibitions in Skopje, Madrid,
Berlin, and Zagreb.
He has received several
awards, including Franklin Furnace Grant
for performance in 2001, and the
Shrinking Cities working scholarship
by the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst
in Leipzig in 2004/05.
Magazine and exhibition
catalogue:
A new issue of the
Journal For Anthropology and New
Parasitism magazine entitled
Lampadedromia, Puerto Rico
04. with texts by Igor Španjol and
Julieta Gonzales will accompany the
opening of the exhibition.
In the autumn or winter
2006 an exhaustive catalogue, presenting
the work of Tadej Pogačar in the last
decade, will be published. The catalogue
will include contributions by Zdenka
Badovinac, Igor Zabel, Gregor Podnar,
Tadej Pogačar, and an interview with the
artist Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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