[SCCA] World of art 2001/2002

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World of Art 2001/2002
series of lectures Strategies of Presentation 2
 
 
World of Art is an educational program on theory and practice in contemporary visual art. 
 

It's fifth year is launching the Course for Curators of Contemporary Arts, Workshops Documents and Proposals and a 
series of lectures entitled Strategies of Presentation2. Within this year's series we 
have invited eight artists, curators and critics to present their own curatorial and artistic practices, by definition more 
innovative and challenging than main-stream ones as established within the art system. 
 
The sixth lecture of this year's series will be held on Tuesday, September 24, at 8 pm 
in the Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana. Lecture Modest Proposals will be delivered by Charles Esche.


Admission is free!

 

Cordially invited,



Sasa Glavan
director of World of Art program
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: 00 386 1 431 83 85, fax: 00 386 1 430 06 29

www.ljudmila.org/scca



Charles Esche is a curator and writer based in Edinburgh and Copenhagen. He is Director of the Rooseum Center for 
Contemporary Art, Malmö since 2001 and a research fellow at Edinburgh College of Art where he works with the 'proto 
academy', an academic project aimed at discovering more conversational and effective models for advanced art 
education. He is also editor of AFTERALL, an art journal published twice yearly by Central St.Martins College of Art and 
Design, London and CalArts, Los Angeles. From 1993-1997 he was Visual Arts Director at Tramway, Glasgow where he 
curated exhibitions by Elisabeth Ballet, Christian Boltanski, Christine Borland, Roderick Buchanan Douglas Gordon, Niek 
Kemps, Jonathan Monk, Stephen Willats and Richard Wright as well as group shows such as Trust and The 
Unbelievable Truth. 
In 2002 he curated the Gwangju Biennale in Korea with Hou Hanru.

 

He was co-curator of the UK section of ARCO 2001, Madrid. In 2000 he co-curated two large-scale exhibitions: 
Intelligence-New British Art at the Tate Gallery, London and Amateur-Variable Research Initiatives' at Konstmuseum and 
Konsthall, Göteborg.
In 2002 he curated the Gwangju Biennale in Korea with Hou Hanru.
 
 
In the lecture Modest Proposals the question of capitalism and artistic proposals will be discussed, using the term 
possibility as a way of unpicking how artistic projects might contribute to ways of imagining the economy otherwise. This 
will also mention the fundamental change since 1989 in the way art relates to its political and economic condition. Esche 
will introduce and try to explain the terms 'engaged autonomy' and 'modest proposals' as ways of seeing the artist's role in 
these environments.
 

Program is supported by Ministry of Culture of Slovenia. 
Lecture is prepared in cooperation with:
- Embassy of Sweden, Ljubljana
- WHW (What, How and for Whom),Zagreb
- Arkzin com.munications 
- Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik
- Multimedijalni institut mi2
- Vladin ured za udruge
- Ministarstvo kulture RH




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