Seminar for Writing
2006/2007

Tender for workshop No.3
Plan for a Mobile
Faculty of Arts
Tutor: CLÉMENTINE DELISS
(England/France)

February 6, 11. a.m.-1. p.m: introduction for workshop participants
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia

February 7., 9., 10., 11., 4. p.m.-8. p.m.:workshop
Cankarjev dom, M3/4 hall, Presernova 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Deadline for applications: Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The World of Art (www.worldofart.org), school of contemporary arts as an educational program was introduced in 1997. It was developed out of a need for theoretical and practical education in the field of contemporary visual art and which no university program in Slovenia offers.

In 2006/2007 the World fo Art is entering its 10th year of working and is now comprising Course for curators, Seminar for writing, Series of public lectures, and Anthology.

The seminar for writing is a segment introduced to stimulate texts on contemporary art and initiate new discourses and methods of recording and historicizing contemporary artistic practices through different workshop sessions nad lectures.

Workshop (in cooperation with Maska Ljubljana, Seminar of Performing Arts, 2006/2007)

Plan for a Mobile Faculty of Arts

From February 6 till February 11, 2007 Clémentine Deliss will run a workshop, based on her experience with "Future Academy", a four year research project on the future of the independent art institution conducted in the UK, Europe, Senegal, India, Australia and Japan.

Workshop
February 6, 11. a.m.-1. p.m: introduction for workshop participants
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia

February 7., 9., 10., 11., 4. p.m.-8. p.m., workshop
Cankarjev dom, M3/4 hall, Presernova 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Public lecture: Plan for a Mobile Faculty of Arts
Tuesday, February 6, 7. p.m., Cankarjev dom, M3/4 hall, Presernova 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Public presentation of workshop:
Sunday, February 11, 6. p.m., Cankarjev dom, M3/4 hall, Presernova 10, Ljubljana, Slovenia

During the workshop three questions will be discussed:

1. The cartography of mobility.
What is mobility in art research and practice? Is it classical romanticism or neo-liberal policy to believe in a mobile, peripatetic faculty of arts? If not what is required to make itinerant academies into a reality? What can we learn from the conceptual and organisational make-up of recent small-scale associations or artist-led collectives? Do these present cases for increased localization or for mobility? Is sustainability actually possible with a mobile faculty of arts or do we need to conceive of impermanency and informal economic parameters as part of the productivity of a new structure? Who can be the host of a mobile faculty of arts?

2. The positions of artist and curator as polymathic agents.
What is the polymath in today's world? How do curators negotiate specificity and multiplicity in the way they choose to work with artists and audiences? How do we assess the artist's articulation of a combination of activities that include private gallery shows, increased participation in large-scale international events, and 'activist' education? Why are artists interested in the question of education and what is the current fuss around research? Under what conditions can art colleges and universities generate autonomous dynamics of practice and production?

3. Defining future faculties of knowledge.
What is a faculty of knowledge? Is it a person, a skill to be learnt, or a discipline that evokes relations of power? Do we shy away from naming members of new academy of competence in art practice and art theory in favor of neutralized and semi-abstract definitions? What formulations and methodologies of knowledge production travel across cultural and disciplinary borders? Who or what shifts knowledge from one place to another? What forms of knowledge and art practice do not travel or translate and why? Is there confusion between the private and the social, or the covert and the public within our concept of future faculties of knowledge? What role do curators play today, fifteen years after the 'global art' surge?

Tutor
Clémentine Deliss
is an independent curator, researcher and publisher and was born in London of French-Austrian parents. She holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Early exhibitions include Lotte or the Transformation of the Object (Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Vienna 1990); Exotic Europeans (National Touring Exhibitions, London, 1990); and Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel Gallery, Konsthalle Malmo 1995).

From 1992 to 1995 she was the artistic director of africa95, an artist-led festival coordinated with the Royal Academy of Arts, London and over 60 UK institutions. Since 1996 she has produced the writers' and artists' organ Metronome, publishing in Dakar, Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Paris, London, and Tokyo. Metronome has been launched at the Dakar and Venice biennales; the Kunsthalle Basel; DAAD, Berlin; documenta X; and at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris.

In 2005 she founded Metronome Press in Paris together with French critic Thomas Boutoux (www.metronomepress.com). In September 2006, Clementine Deliss had a solo exhibition of her work at Kandada gallery (CommandN project collective,Tokyo), featuring ten years of Metronome and a special edition of sandals made from second-hand books. At the same time she curated the Metronome Think-Tank in Tokyo, which was hosted by the Mori Art Museum and organised by Arts Initiative Tokyo and Edinburgh College of Art. Metronome is an official participant of documenta 12 magazines.

Since 2003 she has directed Future Academy at Edinburgh College of Art with members and research cells in Senegal, India, Australia, USA, and Japan.

She has acted as a consultant for the European Union, AFAA (now Francecultures), the Ministry of Culture, Senegal, and is a member of the scientific research council of the School of Art and Design, Geneva (HEAD).

Participants of the workshop will be engaged within different group tasks and actions.

The workshop will be led in English language.

The participants are obliged to attend all days of the workshop.

How to apply?

Please, send your CV and personal data (name, address, e-mail, phone) on e-mail: andreja.kopac@maska.si, or address: Maska Ljubljana (Andreja Kopac), Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The workshop fee is 42 EUR for individuals and 63 EUR for representatives of institutions (VAT included).

The number of participants is limited!

Deadline for applications: Wednesday, January 31, 2007

More information:
Maska Ljubljana, Andreja Kopač, coordinator of Seminar of Performing Arts
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://www.maska.si
phone.: 00 386 41 90 09 26
fax: 00 386 1 431 31 22
e-mail: andreja.kopac@maska.si

SCCA-Ljubljana
Center for Contemporary Arts
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://www.scca-ljubljana.si
phone: 00 386 1 431 83 85
fax: 00 386 1 430 06 29
Contact person: Dušan Dovč
e-mail: info@scca-ljubljana.si

SCCA-Ljubljana is a member of Asociacija, the association of non-government organisations and
independent creators in the field of culture and art in Slovenia.