World of Art and Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory
Series of public lectures Reflections and shifts in curatorial, critical and artistic practices
Elke Krasny:
Unplanned History – Writing It Down/
Writing It Up as a Critical Curatorial Practice

March 13 & 14, 2014
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Workshop application deadline: February 28, 2014

LECTURE
Thursday, March 13, 2014, at 7 pm
SCCA Project space, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
The lecture will be held in English

The Woodward’s Building collapsing, Vancouver, September 30, 2006, photo credit: Tannoy.

In recent spatial practices and engagement in urban transformation, debates have surrounded the putative master planning and the putative un-planning or un-planned. This opposition has been undisputedly at the heart of critical spatial practice and theory.

The title of this lecture proposes a paradox as its starting point: unplanned history. History eludes planning, it has already happened. Still, the notion of the unplanned, as the lecturer emphasizes, is not the only conduit into history. Quite on the contrary, the writing of history, as feminist and postcolonial scholarship have shown, needs care and planning.

WORKSHOP
Thursday & Friday, March 13 & 14, 2014
SCCA Project space, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

In combination with the lecture, the workshop will look at the interrelations and interdependencies between critical practices of artistic production, curatorial approaches, issues of urban epistemology and research-based strategies. The focus will be on conviviality and care and on issues of vulnerability, resistance, knowing bodies of agency/(un)known bodies of writing.

The workshop will combine the format of a read-in with an urban walk through the Tabor neighborhood, which we will develop collectively.

The workshop is free of charge and will be held in English. The number of participants is limited. Applications will be accepted up until Friday, February 28, 2014.

MORE ABOUT THE LECTURE, WORKSHOP SCHEDULE AND APPLICATION

Elke Krasny is a curator, cultural theorist, and writer. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. In 2014 she is City of Vienna Visiting Professor at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2013 she was Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg. Her theoretical and curatorial work is firmly rooted in socially engaged art, architecture and spatial practices, urban epistemology, post-colonial theory, and feminist historiography.

These events are part of the 2014 World of Art public programme, which is being prepared by the SCCA-Ljubljana and the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory.

The programme is supported by: the City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture; ERSTE Foundation.

[Published February 24, 2014]