WORLD OF ART, School of Contemporary Arts
www.worldofart.org
2006/2007

LabSUs
Open platform of curators, artists, writers, theoreticians
Laboratorium in the gallery

Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia
June 23-29, 2007
Open from 10 am. Free entrance!

Laboratorium are: Ivana Bago, Petja Grafenauer Krnc, Petra Kapš, Monika Ivančič Fajfar, Vasja Nagy, Mojca Puncer and Jaka Železnikar

Laboratorium invites you to LabSUs!

On Saturday, June 23, 2007, with the breakfast at 10 am at the Škuc Gallery we will launch an event, that will, during the following week, offer a space for discussions, thoughts and dialogues with artists, curators, critics, thoreticians and the interested public.

You are kindly invited!

Please address any wishes, comments, advice and questions to: labsus.su@yahoo.co.uk

ARTISTS are especially invited to Open studio daily between 12 am and 7 pm! We will welcome you, prepared for dialogue about and on your art practice, ideas and concepts - bring them along!
We will present selected works during LabSUs, the production of which will partly be financed by LabSUs.

Other events:

Saturday, June 23
10 am: Coffee and Art - chatting away with breakfast
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio
8 pm: Laboratorium at "Škuc's bar" - presentation of LabSUs and party

Sunday, June 24
12 am: Internet for Artists - advice and instructions
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio
8 pm: Programmatic policy of the Škuc Gallery - discussion

Monday, June 25
12 am: Art in the city - guided tour through graffiti and street art in Ljubljana
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio
8 pm: Curatorial education - discussion on World of Art, School for Contemporary Art (SCCA-Ljubljana)

Tuesday, June 26
12 am: Video wall - presentation of Slovene video production
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio
6 pm: Teo Spiller will present starting-points for analysis of condition of contemporary visual art in Slovenia.
8 pm:Video in the gallery - discussion

Wednesday, June 27
12 am: World of art and children - discussion and kindergarten
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio
8 pm: Outside/inside: school, system, students, mentors - discussion

Thursday, June 28
12 am: Art in the gallery - guided tour through a selected exhibition
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio

Friday, June 29
From 12 am: Day of joy and art - talk, poetry reading, discussion, gastronomic pleasures and party
12 am-7 pm: Open Studio

Since LabSUs is a seven day open platform, the invitations for particular events will be send afterwards.

LabSUs is a word pun indicating an open platform with two main coordinates:

• laboratorium as a real and metaphoric space in the field of art with loose space and time determinants,
• lapsus as a reversal, allowed to exist because of the belief in the inspiration of mistake, slippage, extreme situation, which crushes the routine of working and enables an overturn of an existing system, evading supervision and contemporary ideological paradigms.

The core of LabSUs consists of seven laborants of the Laboratorium WoA who, with their presence in the Skuc Gallery during seven days, set up a space for discussion, reflection and dialogue between artists, curators and critics, theoreticians, interested public, economists and politicians.

LabSUs will initiate discussions, reflect on curatorial strategies and practices, work on production and presentation of art projects as well as interpret, critically and theoretically contextualize or articulate conditions of productions, presentation and distribution of contemporary art.

LabSUs offers the work of curator, theoretician, artist and writer, the possibility for presentation and production of art projects, individuals ready for action, debate and engaged articulation of personal viewpoints as well as a complex evaluation of what is presented, casual chat and sincere talk, criticism and empathy.

The World of Art, School for Contemporary Art, has been operating for ten years: it developed in 1997 out of a need for theoretical and practical education in the field of contemporary art in Slovenia.

This year, the program Laboratorium is formed as part of the effort of the World of Art to establish a platform for discussion on curatorial practices in the field of contemporary art.

The public activities of Laboratorium take place at the Project Room SCCA, discussions and reflections between the participants also occur on the Internet (through forums and mailing lists), and regular informal meetings.

Laboratorium is conceived experimentally, in order to avoid the monotony of formal workings within the system and to encourage constructive thinking and analysis of curatorial practices in the past and also the present.

Laboratorium is also focused at analysis, contextualisation and valorization of the former achievements of the World of Art which, as the only Slovene program in the field of education in contemporary art, has formed a generation of young Slovene curators.

Production:
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Art - Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.scca-ljubljana.si

In collaboration with:
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si

Supported by:
Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture and Research Activities; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia; Radio Student

SCCA-Ljubljana is a member of Asociacija, the association of non-government organisations and independent creators in the field of culture and art in Slovenia.