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FORUM / Talks on Contemporary Photography

Bojan Mrđenović, from the Budućnost series, 2010

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).

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