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Saša Nabergoj: From Locus to Locis. Two Cases, 2013/2014
Essay

Saša Nabergoj’s essay From Locus to Lociswas written for the international LOCIS seminar, which was at the same time the concluding event of the eponymous two-year project and was finished by the end of the last year in Ireland. The publication LOCIS includes numerous essays and reflections on the whole project and shows a wider context of international cooperations and art residency programmes.   

In her essay, subtitled Two Cases, Saša Nabergoj compared the art scene in Turkey’s Izmir with the art scene in Celje. The author approaches the cultural identity of an environment with the awareness that it consists of several segments, while simultaneously raising the question “is it possible – and how – that the local context is reconceptualised by a temporary invasion of foreign contexts”. On the basis of examples of good practices, the Artist-in-Residence Programme – AIR Celje and art residencies, which took place during the PORTIZMIR3 International Contemporary Art Triennial in Izmir, she concludes that residencies, which are adapted to specific situations and are founded on research of the environment, are easily embedded in a local context and enrich it.

Publication LOCIS.

Saša Nabergoj is an art historian, curator and critic. Assistant director at SCCA−Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts (Slovenia). A member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam). Writer, editor, curator and lecturer on contemporary art, focusing on curatorial and critical practices.

LOCIS is a collaborative project, focused on art residency programmes. It was founded with the aim to establish a platform, where artists can acquire knowledge, useful sources and information on opportunities for international cooperations. The eponymous publication includes summarized texts and the results of a two-year project that resulted in the exchange of experiences between art residency providers, information mediators and participants of art residency programmes.

[Published March 16, 2015]