WORLD OF ART, School of Contemporary Arts
www.worldofart.org
Year 2008/09
Laboratorium of curatorial practices
Workshop no.3

Petja Grafenauer
How to write a text on an exhibition of contemporary art?
(From a description to a context)

Saturday, November 14, 2009 (workshop)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 (discussion)
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Application deadline: Monday, November 9, 2009

A work or a project of contemporary art is not bounded by a certain form, content or materials. As today, a work of art has not identifiable intrinsic properties and contemporary art is located in the hub of artistic, aesthetic, philosophical, sociological, political, media, science and many other discourses, those who would like to write about a project or an exhibition of contemporary art often find themselves in front of many seemingly insurmountable issues:

• How should I visit the exhibition?
• To what I have to pay attention?
• Where and how to get information that I need and how to use it?
• How to use this information?
• How should I start writing?
• Should I lean on the theory and in what manner should I use it?
• How to conceive a text?

A workshop will lead participants from preparations for the visit and tour of the exhibition to writing and complete extended professional texts on the exhibition. The best text will also be published in the professional press.

The workshop will be conducted in Slovene.

PROGRAM AND APPLICATION

Petja Grafenauer
An independent visual art critic and curator. She is completing her PhD on Historical Anthropologies of Visual at the ISH - Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities and her undergraduate studies in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts Ljubljana. She publishes regularly in the newspaper Dnevnik and on Radio Študent Ljubljana where she was the editor of Culture and Humanites Editorial between 2006 and 2007. As a curator she is cooperating with Ganes Pratt Gallery Ljubljana.

Contact
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana
Contact person: Sonja Zavrtanik
tel.:041 367 425, fax: (01) 430 06 29
e-mail: svetumetnosti@scca-ljubljana.si

The World of Art is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana - Department for Culture and European Cultural Foundation.