WORLD OF ART, School for curators and critics of contemporary art, Year 14
Workshop on writing about contemporary art

Miško Šuvaković:
Art and Politics: Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy, Theory and Art in the Era of Global Transition

Friday, March 23, 2012, from 10.00–18.30
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Deadline for application: March 19, 2012

Miško Šuvaković will talk about the relationship between art and politics in contemporary culture and society. His intention is to show how it can be theoretized contemporary art and politics from the perspective of cultural and biopolitical theories. Contemporary relations between art and politics may be identified as a field of obsessions and phantasms about representing the ''truth of the world/life'', or, alternatively, as a field of obsessions and phantasms about performing the ''regulation of world/life''.

Miško Šuvaković was born in 1954 in Belgrade (Serbia). He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade since 1993. Full professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, where he additionally teaches art theory at the Interdisciplinary postgraduate program.

PROGRAM AND APPLICATION

How to apply?

Send the electronic application form to our e-mail: svetumetnosti@scca-ljubljana.si or by post to SCCA-Ljubljana, Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana.

The price of the workshop is for individuals 20 € eur and for institutions 30 € (with DDV). The copy of paid receipt is a precondition for participation in the workshop.
The number of available places is limited to 10 participants. We will accept applications till these places are filled!

Application deadline: 19. 3. 2012

Additional information: SCCA-Ljubljana (office hours: 10.00–13.00)
Contact persons: Simona Žvanut, Saša Nabergoj
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, phone: (01) 431 83 85
e-mail: svetumetnosti@scca-ljubljana.si

[Published March 9, 2012]