World of Art; School for Curators and Critics of
Contemporary Art; 13th year
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana:
Its History and Present
Presentation by Saša Nabergoj

Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 16:45
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koç University
Rumelifeneri Yolu 34450, Sariyer-Istanbul-TURKEY

SCCA-Ljubljana is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The objective of SCCA is to produce, stimulate and mediate innovative artistic and interpretative practices and to encourage international links between them.

SCCA`s activities trigger discursive and social practices, which are quite rare in their public space, showing that intellectual and social effects of artistic practices are a strategically essential element in the present situation. They provide vital impulses for public discussion, sociability, and, by implication, importantly contribute to the construction of the public space. Consequently, their collaborators and participants of their actions and panels come from as different sectors and professions as humanity and social studies, visual anthropology, cultural studies, art history, sociology of culture, philosophy, visual & media arts…
The Center forms important segments of support system for contemporary arts & culture and civic society.

Saša Nabergoj, an assistant director at the SCCA and the head of World of Art, will speak about SCCA programs and projects, focusing on school for curators and critics World of Art and the media archive DIVA Station.

Saša Nabergoj works as a curator, writer, editor and lecturer in the field of contemporary art.
She studied art history at the University of Ljubljana. She is an assistant director at the SCCA, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana, which is a non-profit production, research and educational organisation. Its main objective is to produce, encourage and communicate innovative artistic and interpretative practices and to link them internationally. The centre provides those engaged in contemporary art (artists, curators, theoreticians, critics, and public) with knowledge, tools and skills for independent and expressive performance in the world of art. She works as the head of World of Art, a school for curators and contemporary art critics, which is the only programme in Slovenia - and Central, Eastern and Southern Europe - intended for practical and theoretical education in the field of contemporary art. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in Paris and the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) in Amsterdam.

SCCA-Ljubljana is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

[Published May 30, 2011]