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Julian Stallabrass:
Art Incorporated: ContemporaryArt in a Neoliberal Climate

Lecture

November 15, 2007 at 7 pm
Project room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

World of Art, School of Contemporary Art (www.worldofart.org) as an educational program was introduced in 1997 by SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana. It was developed out of a need for theoretical and practical education in the field of contemporary visual art in Slovenia. With its complex structure the World of Art is nowdays a unique theoretical and practical educational school in Slovenia and in a broader Region (Central, Eastern and South Europe).

It has established the mechanisms necessary for reflective operation in the world of art, and has been continuously developing and adapting to the rapid changes emerging in the art world and social conditions. In its 11th year the World of Art comprises: (1) annual educational program including Course for curators/Laboratorium of Curatorial Practises with final exhibition, (2) Seminar for writing, (3) Series of public lectures, and (4) Anthology.

Julian Stallabrass:
Art Incorporated: Contemporary Art in a Neoliberal Climate

Contemporary art likes to think of itself as a zone of free expression that stands outside the instrumental demands of work and the vulgar uniformities of mass culture. At the same time, it has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War, in both its global scope and its form, particularly in its embrace of photography and video. In this new climate, governed by neoliberal politics, the art world more closely reflects and is led by the powers-that-be than it admits.

Julian Stallabrass is a Reader in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, writer, photographer and lecturer. He is the author of books a.o. Art Incorporated, Oxford University Press 2004; Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London 2003; and co-editor of a.o. Ground Control: Tecnology and Utopia, Black Dog Publishing, London 1997, and Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1999. He has written art criticism regularly for publications including Tate, Art Monthly and the New Statesman. He is an editorial board member of New Left Review and Third Text.

Lecture will be held in English language.

Lecture has been organised in collaboration with Krtina Publishing House, the publisher of the Slovene translation of Stallabrass's Contemporary Art. A very short Introduction (editor Saša Nabergoj).

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.