CONFERENCE 1: ETHICS FOR ARTISTS
Friday 23 March 2007, 19:30h
Vesna
Vukovic (HR)
Cultural activist, curator Urban Festival, Zagreb
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ART, SPACE AND PUBLIC SPHERE(S)
Some observations will be considered on the difficult relation
of art, urbanism and politics, in reference to artistic practices
– so called Public Art – which operate in specific
socio-cultural context. The determining moment of Public Art is
what exactly is implied by the concepts of public sphere, the
public space or the public, and the answers are to be found rather
only by including political theory.
The question will be raised through Kristina Leko's work “What
shall I do? An Ethics for Artists in 12 Simple Rules”, and
through works presented in the framework of UrbanFestival.
www.urbanfestival.hr
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Vesna
Vukovic (HR)
1975, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Graduated in German and Croatian Language,
as well as Literature and Theater Studies, at the University of
Zagreb.
Currently, she realizes the Postgraduate studies in Cultural Studies,
Faculty of Philosophy, at the University of Zagreb. Cultural activist,
translator, curator and researcher in the field of Public Art.
Co-founder and since 2004 president of the nongovernmental organization
[BLOK] - Local Base for Culture Refreshment, Zagreb, program leader
of the international UrbanFestival, editor of the program Transversal
(series of lectures) at the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb, associate
at Croatian Radio Third Program.
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Monica
Ross (UK)
Artist and curator |
PRODUCING
THE NOT REQUIRED. WOMEN WITH RED UMBRELLAS. AN EVENT FOR THE PILOTPROJEKT
GROPIUSSTADT 2005
The move into making art in public and community spaces, initiated
by artists in the 1960s and 1970s, was framed as a radical intervention
into the cultural and social world and the creation of an expanded
arena of action and participation for art, artists and audiences.
Based on releasing the artist and the art object from the economies
of the museum and the market, and of releasing the power of art
to connect with social, cultural and political issues, such moves
inevitably also led to a critical questioning of the role of art
and that of artists themselves. We can say that this stance was
once controversial. Now, in the UK at least, this radical impulse
has largely been incorporated into the operational strategies
of the Cultural Industries and artists often find themselves working
to social and civic commissions where the production of art is
only legitimate because it serves the purpose of a predetermined
social or business agenda. pilotprojekt gropiusstadt provides
artists with space and time for their work and in return asks
them to do ‘something’ for the gropiusstadt environment.
There is no prescription. This presentation explores the potential
of some old fashioned artistic tendencies; the intuitive, reflective
and surreal, in combination with those which are socially and
politically informed, as the means to maintain routes for art
to produce the unexpected, rather than expected, image of contemporary
experience. That is, the means to make the unrequired- rather
than what has been required- visible in public space.
http://www.pilotprojekt-gropiusstadt.de
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropiusstadt
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Monica
Ross (UK)
Monica Ross lives and works in Brighton, UK. She has worked in
time based media, performance, video and installation since the
1970s. Her work has frequently been collaborative and site-specific.
Recent performances and exhibitions include rightsrepeated at
Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield, London 2005, Arbeit: Work Taxi im
Palais Gallery, Innsbruck 2005, justfornow, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
2004 and Outside of a Dog: paperbacks and other books by artists
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2004. A web based
work is at www.justfornow.net.
Monica Ross is also a member of the International Corporation
of Lost Structures www.icols.org.
Downlaod
CV.pdf
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