The catalogue to the exhibition The Case of SKC in the 1970s is available for download. The exhibition took place at the 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.
This catalogue is a rich evidence and reflection of the exhibition, teeming with 'testimonies, memories and interpretations' that give 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.
The texts, written by both older and younger generation 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'
More links to video and audio documentation relating to The Case of SKC exhibition can be found on the PRELOMkolektiv website.
