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FORUM / Talks on Contemporary Photography

Thursday, 31 May, from 12 pm to 7.30 pm
Friday, 1 June, from 6 pm to 8.30 pm
Cankarjev dom, Mala Galerija (Conference hall M1)
Through lectures, presentations and panel discussions two-day Forum is confronting opinions and experiences of number of experts with interdisciplinary background from the area of former Yugoslavia. This years’ forum is dedicated to the Aftermath project and therefore tendencies of engaged post-Yugoslavian contemporary photography.
31 May 2012 at 12 pm
Lectures:
16.30: Milan Aleksić
Lecture: In between – Contemporary Yugoslavian Photography
Professor of photography at New Academy of Arts in Belgrade and University of Kragujevac
17.30: Svetlana Slapšak: Subversion of Nostalgia or Exit from Obscurity
A novelist, essayist, ancient historian, professor and dean at ISH Ljubljana
Talks:
12.15: Saša Janjić:
Engaged contemporary photography in Serbia
Curator of Remont Gallery from Belgrade and ndependent art critic
12.45: Leonida Kovač
In a Constellation… (Croatia)
Independent art critic and theorist from Zagreb
13.00: Ana Opalić
Contemporary Croatian Photography website
Independent artist and editor from Zagreb
13.15: Andrej Đerković
Social Responsibility of Photography
Artists and photographer from Sarajevo and Geneva
13.45: Mirjana Dabović:
Towards Constant Moving (Montenegro)
Curator at National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje
16.00: Dejan Sluga
Between Documentary Photography and Visual Arts
Director and curator at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana
18.30: Genc Kadriu
Contemporary Art in Kosovo
Independent artist and poet from Prishtina
1 June 2012 from 6 pm to 8.30 pm
18.00: Film screening: Brotherhood and Unity by Marija Mojca Pungerčar
19.00: Discussion on different aspects of artistic confrontation to current social reality (from the perspective of Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape project)
Miha Colner / Borut Krajnc / Mojca Pungerčar / Bojan Salaj
Through lectures, presentations and panel discussions two-day Forum is confronting opinions and experiences of number of experts with interdisciplinary background from the area of former Yugoslavia. This years’ forum is dedicated to the Aftermath project and therefore tendencies of engaged post-Yugoslavian contemporary photography.
This year’s Forum is focused to Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape international project that is dedicated an extensive investigation of the effect of large-scale social shifts on the image of the physical and mental environment, and thereby, also on the expression of a number of artists who work in the field of fine art photography. It will present different views and broader contexts of changing cultural landscape, reflected in the body of works of the artists active in the territory of the former Yugoslavia after its disintegration (1991–2011).