WORLD OF ART, School for curators and critics of contemporary art, Year 14

Saša Nabergoj and
Time for a New State +
NSK Folk Art

Workshop: Friday, June 1, 2012, Calvert 22, London
Lecture: Saturday, June 2, 2012, University College London

TIME FOR A NEW STATE is part of a London wide presentation of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) in cooperation with Tate, who was hosting a Symposium (14 April), and which was also comprised of a music performance at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (14 April), an exhibition of archival material at Chelsea Space (Chelsea College of Art) and a seminar at UCL.

TIME FOR A NEW STATE is the first UK retrospective of IRWIN, the visual arts component of NSK, founded in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 1983. This ambitious display features seminal projects from the past twenty years including a special adaptation of Transnacionala (1996), an interactive installation enabling participants to become NSK citizens and have their own passports created. Also on display is Kapital (1991), a site-specific installation that mixes taxidermy with religious icons, appropriating and recycling the symbols of past totalitarian governments and utopian art movements.

In collaboration with the History of Art Department, University College London

Workshop with Saša Nabergoj (SCCA−Ljubljana), Friday June 1, 10am−5.30pm, Calvert 22

Self-historicisation as Artistic Practice: The Case of IRWIN

This workshop explores the strategy of artistic self-historicisation, focusing on the particular case of the Slovenian collective IRWIN and their project East Art Map.

Participants will spend the day at Calvert 22 within IRWIN’s Time For A New State exhibition. The programme will focus on placing the work of IRWIN in a socio-political, ideological and cultural context, while also offering an overview of their artistic practice. The workshop will address the notion of historicising both in the context of IRWIN’s work and from the wider perspective of its implications for art historical and curatorial practices.

More:

• Calvert 22, Time For A New State + NSK Folk Art events
• Calvert 22, Workshop
• Press, IRWIN, Time for a New State

In collaboration with the History of Art Department, University College London

Lecture of Saša Nabergoj on the symposium:
Archive as Strategy: Conversations about Self-historicisation across the East

Symposium – East Art Map: History is Not Given. Please Help to Construct It
Saturday 2 June, 2−6pm, University College London

Speakers include Charles Esche, Gediminas Gasparavičius, IRWIN, Saša Nabergoj, Milena Tomić and Jonah Westerman.

This symposium will explore IRWIN and their project East Art Map in relation to strategies of self-archiving, self-historicisation and re-enactment in Eastern European art. It will involve an afternoon of presentations from established speakers and postgraduate researchers engaging with issues surrounding IRWIN’s practice, EAM, archival tendencies in Eastern European art, and the legacies of these practices today (with specialists exploring the legacies of the project in relation to artistic and curatorial practice, art institutions and the writing of art history).

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.

[Published May 24, 2012]