Studio 6
How Much Ignorance
Does the Art Still Retain?
The status of alternative production of knowledge and its
conditions in local contemporary visual arts

Curator: Domen Ograjenšek
Artist: Tjaša Pogačar Podgornik

Thursday, 5 May 2016, at 6pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

In last ten years it is possible to observe the tendency in institutional programs towards more and more emphasised educational side also in local milieu, which brings about the growth of self-organised and usually unofficial educational activities integrated in exhibition and pedagogical programs of contemporary arts institutions.  

The project will try to analyse the educational practices that place themselves in the intersection between artistic, pedagogical and curatorial domain and critically reconsider their stakes, potentials and impacts (i.e. active political participation and emancipation on one side and presumed social-transformative production of knowledge on the other).

On the basis of the presented conclusions Domen Ograjenšek and Tjaša Pogačar Podgornik will perform an intervention into the space of SCCA – Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts in consideration with its history and actual positioning in the field of art production and education. The performative act will aspire at locating other possible impacts /potentials/meanings of these kind of practices, and consequently shift the deliberation beyond the discourse on educational turn and related notions of contemporary art: first of all, concepts of art as production of social relations (relational concept) and art as learning and knowledge production (epistemological concept).  

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Domen Ograjenšek is a philosopher, writer and critic of contemporary visual art. He works as an editor of the Art-Area (one-hour radio show about contemporary art at Radio Študent), an editor of ŠUM magazine (the journal for theory and critique of contemporary art) and a member of the eponymous research collective. He has curated para-artistic event SURFACE // RESISTANCE at the Cmurek Castle, solo exhibition Indifferences by Andrej Škufca (Aksioma | Project Space) and as a member of Neteorit collective participated in the Crises and New Beginnings | Art in Slovenia 2005–2015 exhibition (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM).

From 2010, Tjaša Pogačar Podgornik works as an artist and writer in the field of contemporary art. She has participated in several group exhibitions (U3 - 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia: An Idea for Living, U3 – 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia: Resilience, 4. 4, Crises and New Beginnings | Art in Slovenia 2005–2015), she wrote for the magazines Praznine, Tribuna and Art Words and some Moderna galerija publications. She is an editor and researcher of ŠUM magazine. She was also one of the initiators and instigators of student project BOKS, a member of the Neteorit collective and co-organizer of various reading seminars, talks and lectures in the field of contemporary art.

Photo: SCCA-Ljubljana archive

Producer: SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana
Support: Ljubljana Municipality, Department for Culture

[Published April 28, 2016]