[SCCA] Strategies of Presentation 3, Nevenka Sivavec

[SCCA-Ljubljana]

A series of lectures: Strategies of Presentation 3

Nevenka Sivavec: THE SMALL TOWN OF CELJE 
Kapelica Gallery, Kersnikova 4
Tuesday, 27th May at 9 pm 

THE SMALL TOWN OF CELJE lecture is perceived as a very personal insight 
into certain curatorial experiments performed by Nevenka Sivavec, an 
art historian, curator of the Celje Art Salon, who deals mainly with 
the research and presentation of marginal, outsider artistic practices, 
which emerge from the local environment and projects that actively 
include the local community. 

She will analyse the activities in Celje during the 1970's and 80's, 
which were presented in two exhibitions held at the Art Salon: in 1999 
The Small Town of Celje–the alternative of the 1970's and in 2001 The 
Small Town of Celje–the phantasms of the 1980's. She will also present 
some other non-standardised projects and artists, who cannot be caught 
within the existing criteria, trends and institutionalised discourses.  

The Small Town of Celje is a case study of the marginalized art 
production on the micro level of the Celje alternative. If it was still 
possible to place the analysis of the activities of the 1970's into the 
context of the alternative as a non-binding aesthetic situation, which 
produces works of art merely marginally and base them on the idea of 
conceptualism (the response in the broader Slovene area was accordingly 
positive) it proved to be a different case already with the 1980's 
exhibition. At this exhibition it was shown that for the Slovene 
theoretical discourse the issues revealed by the exhibition The Small 
Town of Celje–phantasms of the 1980's were not up-to-date or relevant, 
for the exhibition remained without any sort of critical transcript or 
response. This is on one side paradoxical and on the other 
understanding, for it dealt with the most basic issues on the nature of 
human creativity and presented images generated by a true belief in the 
consecrated mission (magical powers) of the work of art and the belief 
in one's own capability of mediating this power through the artist as a 
medium.    


Entrance free of charge.


The SCCA-Ljubljana publications will be made available at the lectures. 


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 is 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.


In the spring period we are also preparing:
Tadej Pogacar: As a soft slap on the hotly desired face of capital, on 
Monday, 9th June at 9 pm in the Kapelica Gallery. 


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