[SCCA] World of Art: Skart lecture

[SCCA-Ljubljana]

WORLD OF ART 
A series of lectures: Strategies of presentation 3 


In its sixth year, the World of Art educational program, unique in the 
field of contemporary theoretical reflection and curatorial practice in 
Slovenia is comprised of the following: the Course for curators of 
contemporary art (the opening of the final exhibition prepared by the 
participants will be on 3rd July in the Kapelica Gallery), the Seminar 
for writing on contemporary art, a Series of public lectures and the 
Anthology.  

Within the frame of this year’s theme entitled Strategies of 
presentation 3 we are continuing in the direction of presenting 
artists, theoreticians and critics, who are establishing a critical 
reflection and a constructive approach to work in the field of 
contemporary art and culture. We will invite experts (artists, 
theoreticians, curators and critics), who with their work set a mirror 
to the established art system (even though they do not denounce its 
existence and often also operate within its frame) and will present 
their projects and ways, techniques and methods of their work and place 
and discuss them in the context of the international cultural and art 
scene. 

The introductory lecture of the spring part of this year’s series: 
Art collective Skart strategy of small steps on Wednesday, 14th May at 
9 pm in Kapelica Gallery on Kersnikova 4 in Ljubljana. 
Repeat lecture: Friday 16th May at 8 pm in the Nova Gorica Town 
Gallery. 

The artistic collective Skart was established in 1990 in an abandoned 
graphic atelier of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade by Dragan 
Protic and Djordje Balmazovic. ‘The collective in progress’ based their 
actions of handing out cards with printed words or poems during 
the ‘time of silence and fear’ on the principle of self-publishing and 
self-distribution.  In the year 2000 they spread their operation 
strategy onto a group consisting of between 30 and 50 people who 
applied for the audition for HORKESKART (hor-choir + orchestra + 
Skart), which transformed the classical ‘military’ organisation of such 
groups into a self-organised collective.  The members, who are meeting 
already for the third year, have during this period held concerts all 
across Serbia, as well as prepared a tour of primary schools and 
cooperatives in Montenegro. In 2001 they were the first organised group 
of people who, on their way to their one-week tour of Istria, crossed 
the Serbian-Croatian boarder with a group passport and in a bus with a 
Serbian number plate since 1991.   
During the last years of their work the members of this ‘perpetuum 
mobile’ started to compose, organise appearances, hold lectures and 
conduct by themselves; for instance the Skart conductor, who was before 
a pianist, became the youngest female conductor in the country at the 
age of eighteen.   

The lecture will take place in Serbian language. 

Entrance free of charge. 


You are cordially invited.

Contact: Sasa Glavan
SCCA, Center for contemporary arts-Ljubljana
www.ljudmila.org/scca 
phone.: 01 431 83 85
fax: 01 430 06 29

The series of lectures are prepared in co-operation with the Kapelica 
Gallery and the Nova Gorica Town Gallery.

The World of Art program is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the 
Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana-Department for Culture 
and Research and the restaurant Carli. 


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