Archive for October, 2008
Last AlmostReal event to take place in Stockholm 2009
The decision between AlmostReal and curator Maria Lind has been reached to hold the final event of AlmostReal in the second half of 2009 in Stockholm to coincide with the Swedish presidency. This conclusionary event will bring together artists and cultural political policy figures in an attempt to unravel the cultural-political landscape, outlook and interests […]
Škuc Gallery
Škuc Gallery has been operating in the premises at Stari trg 21 in Ljubljana since 1978 as part of the ŠKUC Cultural Centre, one of the pillars of non-governmental culture in Slovenia for over 30 years now. In these 23 years of operation, Škuc Gallery has become a prominent international art centre for exhibitions, different […]
Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities
Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities’ is a Res Artis General Meeting-conference organised by Res Artis in the SMART project space, Amsterdam. October 9 - 11, 2008.
The conference is a face-to-face encounter for artists and cultural practitioners from all over the globe to present and discuss new transformations in residencies in the contexts in which they […]
Confrontational collaborations
Different activities, relations and products throughout Almostreal which emerged from a collaboration that was, in one or more ways, particularly confrontational.
Researching political practices of (post) Yugoslav Art
The project “Political Practices of (post-) Yugoslav Art” is conceived as a long-term project between 4 independent cultural organisations to further collaborate on multidisciplinary research, focusing on relationships of visual arts, cinema and intellectual production with socio-political practices in the (post-) Yugoslav cultural space. The organizations share the attitude towards culture as a productive process […]
Joining the confrontlines through television
As part of their television series entitled ‘Kuhinja’, the producers Asja Hafner and Amra Baksic Camo worked together with Kuda.org, PRELOMkolektiv and SCCA/pro.ba to interview and report on several of the events (exhibitions, meetings, lectures, screenings, performances, workshops) that took place throughout the first stage of Almostreal. The continuous coverage of the events which emerged […]
Redistributing media content, formats and spaces
Since the beginning of AR 1 in 2005, the 4 art and media collectives (WHW, kuda.org, PRELOM and SCCA/pro.ba) have been collaborating together to redistribute their artistic media content into different media formats and spaces. ‘Redistribution’ here refers to disseminating contents into other media formats and spaces. As for instance with TV Gallery where the […]