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Studio 6 presents: CAC Bukovje (SLO) and Studio Golo Brdo (CRO)
Exhibition, lecture, teatime
23 November–11 December 2011
Opening and lecture: Wednesday, 23 November, at 6 pm
Vžigalica Gallery, Trg francoske revolucije 7, Ljubljana
Tomislav Brajnović with selected artists from the exhibition program of Golo Brdo Studio: Nemanja Cvijanović, IRWIN, Dalibor Martinis, Vlado Martek and Goran Petercol.
Nina Slejko and Conny Blom from CAC Bukovje and their collection of contemporary art: Rasmus Albertsen, Bababa International, Donald Baechler, Conny Blom, Heath Bunting, Lado Darakhvelidze, Eric Doeringer, Carl Johan Engberg, Gilbert & George, IRWIN (Roman Uranjek), Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans, Serkan Özkaya, Miha Perne, Magnus Petersson, Daniel Segerberg, Mladen Stropnik, Nina Slejko, Johan Wik, and Leon Zuodar.
Curated by: Saša Nabergoj, Sonja Zavrtanik
Assistant: Simona Žvanut
Accompanying program:
- Lina Džuverović: Conversations: There Is No Such Thing As Too Discursive, opening talk will be in English, Wednesday, 23 November, at 6 pm, Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana
- Teatime with Lina Džuverovič, Friday, 25 November, at 11 am, CAC Bukovje, Bukovje 35, Postojna
 The Studio 6 program was conceived in 2004 by Barbara Borčić and Saša Nabergoj at the SCCA-Ljubljana. We wanted to show all the diverse aspects of an art context, which contributes to how individual art works are interpreted, and encourage discussions on influential books, unfinished projects, dead-end ideas etc. We were interested in how individuals in the art world are inter-connected, while seeking to prompt debates between different protagonists – artists, curators and critics – not only about art works and exhibitions, but also the processes which lead to the final result.
With the careful selection of participants at Studio 6, we created various situations through which we examined theoretically and practically various levels of work and cooperation in art. In the first year, we formed a team of five curators (Božidar Zrinski, Bojana Piškur, Iztok Hotko, Alenka Gregorič and Saša Nabergoj), who collaborated closely with their respective invited artist when preparing an exhibition and discussion in the Project Room. In the ensuing years, the focus was on the discussion - a discursive event which accompanied the exhibition - which was a site-specific intervention in the full (in terms of meaning and space) Project Room. We invited curators who had established interesting models of work and examined key issues – including Petra Kapš and Božidar Zrinski, who focused on the issue of the power of the curator and commissioned works, and Jurij Krpan, Nevenka Šivavec and Andrej Medved, whose working method is based on a close continuous following and collaboration with the artistic practice of an artist.
Thus, Studio 6 will venture out of the home venue which contributed to its establishment and name – the SCCA Project Room at Metelkova 6 – to become a guest of the Vžigalica Gallery. We have taken this opportunity to reflect on past work, and on the basis of previously tested formats seek to conceive a complex project: an exhibition of contemporary art and a space of collaboration in which curatorial and artistic practice and its perception are placed in context, allowing for a presentation of alternative ways of working and collaborating in the art world.
We invited two artist-run spaces that promote a wider reflection on the methods and conditions of presenting works of art to participate. They are not interested in being spectacular, but in the long-term work of adjusting to local contexts. We invited CAC, the Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje (Slovenia) and Golo Brdo Studio (Croatia), whose inspired and constructive work we have been following for some time, to present curatorial and artists’ work and install an exhibition in the gallery.
The contribution of Golo Brdo Studio was conceived by Tomislav Brajnović, Saša Nabergoj and Sonja Zavrtanik, who have been collaborating in various ways for several years, while the presentation of CAC Bukovje was prepared in collaboration with the Centre’s founders Nina Slejko and Conny Blom; in this case, we hope that long-term collaboration will ensue.
Five artists who have previously collaborated with Golo Brdo Studio are participating in the exhibition: Nemanja Cvijanović, IRWIN, Dalibor Martinis, Vlado Martek and Goran Petercol. Each has been invited to contribute a work of their choice, which should be recent and modest in terms of production. This is in accordance with the conceptual guidelines of the program of Golo Brdo Studio.
CAC Bukovje will present their small, but outstanding art collection, which features great names from the world of contemporary art, and which was established by Nina Slejko and Conny Blom on the principles of the alternative economy (often involving exchanges of their own art works).
An archive and documentary section will screen the rich visual archives of both centres, and we will also set up a reading corner with their publications.
Lina Džuverović: Conversations: There Is No Such Thing As Too Discursive
lecture
In her illustrated lecture curator Lina Džuverović discusses the value of discursive programming, conversations and improvisation in curatorial practice. Examining a range of curatorial models which focus on the discourse rather than the final result, she will discuss notions of community and exchange in the context of contemporary art. She asks what contemporary art can learn from improvised music, also referring to both contemporary and historical examples of process based and discursive practices. With reference to Jean Luc Nancy's notion of 'being in common' and the notion of the 'temporary autonomous zone' in contemporary art, Džuverović will examine the importance of recognising deferred value as a measure of success in curatorial practices.
 Since May 2011 Lina Džuverović has been the curator of the Calvert 22 Foudation in London – the UK’s only not for profit foundation dedicated to the presentation of contemporary Art and Culture from Russia, CIS Countries and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Calvert 22 Lina spent seven years as Executive Director of Electra, a London-based contemporary art agency which she co-founded in 2003. Projects she has commissioned, produced and realized with Electra include Dirty Literature event series (National Portrait Gallery, 2011), 27 Senses (Chisenhale Gallery, 2010; Kunstmuseet KUBE, Alesund, Norway, 2009), film/performance Perfect Partner by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (Barbican Centre, London and European tour, 2005), group exhibition Her Noise (South London Gallery, 2005), Sound And The Twentieth Century Avant Garde lecture series (Tate Modern, 2004), soundtrack consultancy on films by Daria Martin, working with composers Zeena Parkins and Maja Ratkje respectively, Emotional Orchestra and Sheer Frost Orchestra by Marina Rosenfeld (Tate Modern, 2005), The Sounds Of Christmas installation by Christian Marclay (Tate Modern, 2004) and many others.
In 2009 she was one of two curators of the fifth edition of Momentum, the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (Moss, Norway) for which she co-curated the multi-venue exhibition entitled Favoured Nations with Stina Högkvist of the National Museum, Oslo whilst also being the Editorial Board of the biennial publication, published by Torpedo, Norway. In 2006 Lina was named the 2006 Decibel Mid-Career Curatorial Fellow by Arts Council England (an award given to one curator every two years) and received a prestigious award of £50 000 towards professional development and R&D of a major exhibition.
Formerly Lina was Media Arts Curator at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and prior to that she worked in a range of senior management roles across the cultural sector including as Online Editor for The Wire – a leading international music magazine, Online Editor for Mute magazine and Education and Training Manager for The Lux Centre for Film Video and Digital Art, amongst others. She has also conceived and implemented numerous projects funded by the British Council across a number of European countries including Norway, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Romania.
In parallel, Lina regularly guest lectures about contemporary art and contributes texts to publications internationally. Her writing has appeared in magazines including Contemporary, Art Review, Artforum and The Wire.
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Production: SCCA-Ljubljana
Co-production: Museum & Galleries of Ljubljana
The project is supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Rovinj
Acknowledgements: International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
[Published November 9, 2011]
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