The catalogue to the exhibition The Case of SKC in the 1970s is rich document of and reflection on the exhibition which took place at Skuc gallery in Ljubljana, May 2008. (SKC stands in Serbo-Croatian for Studentski Kulturni Centar.) The project of the exhibition, which emerged out of the first stage of Almost Real, confronts and articulates the interrelations between visual arts theory and political practices in ex-Yugoslavia.

The catalogue, teeming with 'testimonies, memories and interpretations', gives a political voice back to the art of the SKC movement in the '70s as well as demanding questions on the increasing gap between art and politics in the region today.

Published by: PRELOM Kolektiv and Škuc Gallery

Editors: PRELOM Kolektiv

Translation and Proofreading: Jelena Vesić, Novica Petković, Dušan Grlja and Dragana Kitanović

Design: Vojislav Ilić

The texts written by both older and younger ex-Yugoslav artists and theorists are:

‘New Artistic Practice’ in Former Yugoslavia: From Leftist Critique of Socialist Bureaucracy to the Post-Communist Artifact in Neo-Liberal Institution of Art — Jelena Vesic

'Art as a Form of Ownership Awareness' — Dunja Blazevic

'Art and Revolution' — Rasa Todosijevic

'Notes' — Jasna Tijardovic

'The Language of Art and the System of Art' — Jesa Denegri

'Art as a Form of Religious Consciousness' — Goran Dordevic

'For Self-Managing Art' — Zoran Popovic

'A Sketch of the Possibilities of Art in Self-Management Socialism' — Slavko Timotijevic

'Art as Style' — Vladimir Gudac

'Art as Decorative Authority' — Bojana Pejic

'The Strike in Art Production'

'Lazy Artists'

'Cultural Politics in the SFRY After 1968: SKC as an Institution' — Dusan Grlja

'Self-Management as Economic and Political System' — Dusan Grlja

'SKC and New Cultural Practices'

'SKC in Public'