kapelica gallery > terror=decor, a series of panels: torino-new york-beirut

[sandra sajovic]

TERROR=DECOR
A series of panels: Torino - New York - Beirut

NEW YORK, Wednesday, May, 28 2003, 6.30 pm
Max Protetch Gallery, 511 W 22nd St. NY 10011

Participants:
Ziga Kariz, artist, Slovenian Pavilion, 2003 Venice Biennial
Jill Magid, artist, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Igor Zabel, co-curator of the 50. Venice Biennial 2003
Marcel Stefancic Jr., critic and media theoretician, philosopher/writer
Timothy Druckrey, new media theoretician
moderated by Katherine Carl, curator and writer, New York


After Torino, where at panel discussion on May, 12, Ziga Kariz and his 
production crew encountered Alberto Franceschini, co-founder of the Red 
Brigade (Brigate Rosse) and Antonio Caronia, media theoretician, editor of 
the Red Star (Stella Rossa) newspaper in 1970s, we are eager to invite you 
to the second panel discussion, where panelists will discuss about the art 
in the realm of global capital and violence.

For his exhibition at the Slovenian Pavilion (curated by Kapelica Gallery) 
at the 2003 Venice Biennial, Ljubljana-based artist Ziga Kariz has 
developed a new phase of TERROR=DECOR project, his ongoing investigation 
into the cultural zone where painting meets surveillance technology, 
terrorism, and cinema. By outfitting his paintings with digital cameras, 
distributing them throughout private homes in Venice, and using the 
Slovenian Pavilion as a site for surveillance monitoring, Kariz 
destabilizes the traditional roles played by artists, viewers, and collectors.

How does the painter-painting-viewer relationship change in a world whose 
visual culture is dominated by rapid exchange of information through the 
media and the constant possibility of terrorist activity? In what way is 
the viewer of painting directly implicated in the larger cultural 
discourse, a discourse that extends beyond the art world and into the realm 
of global capital and violence? The panel discussion at Max Protetch on May 
28 will address these issues as they exist in both Kariz's work and the art 
world at large.

The panel discussion in Beirut (Lebanon) will occur in the end of June 2003 
when we will encounter artists, media theoreticians and strong 
opinion-makers who will discuss about the mediation of Middle East 
socio-political disturbances which media translates to the western way of 
understanding the world map.



Project supported by: Ministry of Culture, Slovenia

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Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
tel.: +386 1 43 80 302, fax: +386 1 43 80 202, gallery at kapelica.org
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