platformaSCCA

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From: Ursa Jurman <jurmanur at mail.ljudmila.org>

THE THIRD NUMBER OF THE MAGAZINE PLATFORMASCCA IS OUT AND ALREADY 
ONLINE: http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma/
Focus of the third issue is relation between ART-THEORY-IDEOLOGY. 

PlatformaSCCA, the magazine of the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana, is focused on the themes that 
contribute considerably to the understanding of the contemporary art practice and its context. The magazine was 
predominantly created as a platform for the texts written within the frame of the research project "Manifesta in Our 
Backyard" The project (to which both previous issues - June 2000, December 2000 - were dedicated) was aimed at 
researching the operations of the contemporary art system on the example of the Manifesta 3 (European Biennial of 
Contemporary Art) that took place in Ljubljana in 2000. Although the research project is finished, we continue with 
publishing the magazine PlatformaSCCA. The decision for that was based on the estimation that critical and 
argumented reflection on questions concerning contemporary art and culture is not present enough in Slovenia. 

Apart from providing the information on the center's activities, we publish original texts and translations from the fields of 
art theory, critical theory and art criticism. 

PlatformaSCCA no. 3: 
- Novelties from the SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana programmes, including deadlines for 
regional/international programmes, etc.; 
- Ursa Jurman: "Out of Our Backyard"
- Misko Suvakovic: "The Ideology of the Exhibition" - the author deals with the ideology of display on the example of 
three biggest European events in the field of contemporary fine art - the Kassel Documenta, the Venice Biennale and 
Manifesta - he concludes the text with a comparison of Manifesta and Soros Centers of Contemporary Arts; 

- Lev Kreft: "The Avant-Garde is Mainstream"
 - the author discusses the relation between art, politics and aesthetics in the historical avant-garde, neo-avant-garde 
and postmodernism; 
- Natasa Ilic & Dejan Krsic "Political Practices of Art"
- on the example of the art work by Sanja Ivekovic, which the authors place in the cultural and political context of 
Croatia in the 90’s, the authors write about the chances for alternative culture in Croatia and the strategies of 
subversive artistic practises; 
- Bogdan Lesnik: "Fragments on Theory and Ideology"
 - through psychoanalytic reading and in a dialogue with Freud’s essays on art the author discusses the relation 
between theory and ideology; 
- Rastko Mocnik "About the Art" - a text on the parasitism of the art theory and discourses on art experiences an 
unique parasitism with the visual intervention by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
- Interview with Suzana Milevska conducted by Ivanka Apostolova in which the main topic is (self)criticism and 
(self)reference when writing on art; 
- Igor Zabel "Art and Quality"
- in a dialogue with Ursa Jurman the author reflects on the issues of interpretation and the evaluation of contemporary 
art. 

PlatfromaSCCA is published in Slovene/English language. All 3 issues are available also online: 
http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma/
Contact: 
Ursa Jurman 
SCCA-Ljubljana, Vegova 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 
tel: +386 426 21 92; fax: +386 425 47 34 
scca at mail.ljudmila.org