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Open Rog
Group exhibition by the the Course for
curators of contemporary Arts,
School year 2005/06
(SCCA, Center for Contemporaty Arts — Ljubljana)
Factory Rog,
Trubarjeva 72: June 23-July 7, 2006
Škuc Gallery,
Stari trg 21: June 23- July 19, 2006
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts –
Ljubljana has been organizing World of Art, School for
Contemporary Arts for nine years. It consists of: a course
for curators of contemporary art with concluding exhibition
project, a series of public lectures, a seminar on how to
write about contemporary art and a yearly anthology.
During The Course for Curators the participants are
introduced to contemporary, especially Slovenian, art and to
theoretical and practical aspects of curatorial work
thorough tutorial meetings with mentors, visits to current
exhibitions, reading professional literature and research
assignments.
Participants test their proficiency while preparing a
concluding exhibition project. In the school year 2005/06
the participants have chosen to concentrate on problematic
of abandoned (industrial) premises, which might be used for
contemporary art. Thus the participants or young curators
are inviting you to:
- pre-opening performance Vlasta
Delimar and Milan Božić will spend the night in the former
factory Rog on Thursday, June 22, 2006 in the Factory
Rog (from 9 p.m.) and
- opening of the exhibition project
Open Rog on Friday, June 23, 2006 at Factory Rog (at
7 p.m.) and at Škuc Gallery (at 9 p.m.)
Additional information:
Website:
http://www.worldofart.org/
Visual material:
http://www.worldofart.org/odprtirog/press
Exhibition project
Open Rog
The participants of The Course for
Curators in the school year 2005/06 present concluding
exhibition project entitled Open Rog, with which they
support self initiative transforming of the Factory Rog into
a space for independent production of cultural and social
contents and thus help co create a new space for
contemporary art.
The title of the exhibition refers to the opening of the
industrial premise which has been abandoned for 15 years and
at the same time stresses the essence of the open art work,
which is completed only upon its reception by the spectator.
The participants have “opened” the concept of the exhibition
to all the interested artists, invited them to get into
dialogue with the abandoned industrial space, its context,
history or current initiative of its temporal use and
propose an art project which takes the factory as a starting
point (site-specific in the literal meaning of the word) or
as a challenge for modification of an already realized
project.
The participants have chosen 16 art projects; most of them
will be exhibited for the first time. The exhibition has
been dis-mantled since the wish was to establish a dialogue
between a already traditional space for this type of
exhibitions (Škuc Gallery) and new “non-gallery” space of
visual arts (Factory Rog).
Škuc Gallery displays photographies of the factory happening
and Rog’s architecture by Pavel Koltaj, Bojan Salaj and
Antonio Živkovič. Photographical recount is supplemented
with artistic transformed information about activities in
Rog by Zaš Brezar and art tandem of Saša Spačal and Luka
Prinčič.
The particularity of the exhibition in
the Factory Rog is its inseparability from art practice and
projects displayed in the factory. Because participants and
artists; Artgroup RGB, Vlasta
Delimar and Milan Božić, Blaž Erzetič, Irma Gnezda,
Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Jure Legac, Mateja Peroša, Pila
Rusjan, Simon Svetlik, Robertina Šebjanič and
Mojca Zlokarnik, are only some of the many
temporal users of the factory and because they don’t want to
deprive the visitor of the integrity of experiencing Rog,
the exhibition blends in with the environment to a certain
extent.
We invite visitors to look for micro
locations of projects Open Rog upon visiting vast
Factory Rog.
Curators: Sandra
Belšak, Janja Gojkovič, Mojca Lešnik, Maja Lozić, Irena Orel
Mentors of the Course for Curators:
Alen Ožbolt, Nevenka Šivavec
Production:
SCCA, Center for Contemporary
Arts - Ljubljana
Programme: World of Art, School of Contemporary Arts
Leader of the school, year 2005/2006: Urška Jurman
Coordinator of the school: Tevž Logar
Advisor of the school: Barbara Borčić
In collaboration with:
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana,
Factory Rog, Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana (http://www.tovarna.org/)
Exhibition project is supported by:
The City of Ljubljana, Ministry of
Culture of Republic of Slovenia, Gradis d.d., Okolje
Consulting d.o.o., Makro 5 d.o.o., Kraški zidar d.d.,
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