Academic Event

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 26 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 40:31

 In his speech, Arseny Zhilyaev talked about the generation of the first post-Soviet shuttle businessmen through the history of the labor biography of Soviet engineer Alexander Dolgov, who after the collapse of the USSR became a private[]

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 26 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 60:50

When the pop-musical genre called Turbo-folk emerged in Serbia in the 1990s, it provoked a number of controversies and affective antipathies and sympathies. Even though Cultural theoreticians and public intellectuals have mostly dismissed it as the[]

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 25 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 57:02

With the advent of the Alt-Right there’s a new subculture on the block. Some claim that the avant-garde tactic of transgression is now exclusively to be found on the right. What used to be punk in the 1980s today is alt-right. Although there[]

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 25 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 53:03

In the avant-garde rhetoric internalized by contemporary art, the ideas of social involvement and artistic achievement are almost identical, claiming that after art’s self-sublation such involvement is art’s principal goal. Yet despite[]

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 24 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 42:25

Badovinac’s contribution reflected on the specificity of the archives built by some Eastern European artists about the 1990s, especially about the wars in the Balkans, and on the question of the impact that artists’ archives have on[]

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 24 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 60:25

The addressee of populism is commonly defined in cultural terms as a human embodiment of a specific way of life (culture?) considered common, average or ordinary. The avant-garde art, in contrast, epitomizes precisely the opposite: the exceptional,[]

Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 23 August 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 53:25

Today the Russian philosophy known as Cosmism has been largely forgotten. Its utopian tenets – combining Western Enlightenment with Eastern philosophy, Russian Orthodox traditions with Marxism – inspired many key Soviet thinkers until[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 23:31

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 21:36

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 23:09

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 57:12

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 27:26

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 18:59

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 30 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 23:18

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 29:58

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 20:56

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 25:54

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 35:01

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 19:20

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 22:06

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 18:46

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 31:51

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 21:13

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 18:17

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 23:18

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Type Seminar
Date 29 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 30:23

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

Subtitle Anti-Fascism, Non-Alignment, Self-Management and Multinational Federalism
Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 31:22

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle Towards a non-aligned genealogy of the Southern Conceptualisms
Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
Production MG+MSUM
City of production Slovenia
Duration 32:28

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle A Proposition for a Pan-Peripheral Network
Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 40:18

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 42:10

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle Case studies exploring a "geographic horizon" of the art and visual culture of the region
Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 29:45

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle The case of The GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 33:44

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Type Conference
Date 28 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 36:00

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle International conference
Type Conference
Date 27 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 08:34

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle How Yugoslavia discovered non-alignment and became the Third World leader [opening talk]
Type Lecture , Conference
Date 27 May 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 77:06

The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question was to tackle the legacy of culture in[]

Subtitle Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned
Type Lecture
Date 5 April 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 74:32

The lecture Towards an Aesthetics of Southern Uprisings by a curator and film theorist Olivier Hadouchi accompanies the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition. []

Subtitle Lecture series +Kantina MSUM: Migrations in Time and Space
Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 19 February 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production +Kantina MSUM
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 78:50

The public perception of Bela krajina has been marked by the wire on the border, a subject of far more debates than the economic and social issues that this cut-off region has been grappling with for many years. A closer look reveals that it was this[]

Type Edition, Visual Poetry, Conversation, Guided tour
Date 14 February 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 45:08

Subtitle Lecture series +Kantina MSUM: Migrations in Time and Space
Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 22 January 2019
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production +Kantina MSUM
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 84:51

The point of departure will be the work of the Slovene-American writer Louis Adamič, whose 120th anniversary of birth was celebrated this year; the Sophia publishing house is soon to publish his work From Many Lands translated into Slovene[]

Subtitle Lecture series +Kantina MSUM: Migrations in Time and Space
Type Lecture series
Date 19 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production +Kantina MSUM
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 130:31

On such varied topics as political representatives, the labor force, or the national basketball team, the public discourse in Slovenia is seeing a resurgent emphasis on the “national extraction” of the citizens of Slovenia. Frequently[]

Type Lecture
Date 18 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 52:30

Alenka Puhar casts light on the social climate of the 1960s, when photographer Stojan Kerbler took his first anthological portraits of children, by looking at a number of critical accounts in the press and literature of the time, portraying the[]

Subtitle Award ceremony
Type Theory
Date 7 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 78:40

The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges the exceptional achievements of cultural protagonists whose work supports, develops or investigates visual art and culture in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Named in honour of the[]

Subtitle Keynote lecture
Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 37:46

In today’s Europe, arts institutions have to recognise their role in creating and maintaining sheltering structures for artists and students to meet, exchange and develop self-engineered and trans-border forms of collectivization. Faced with[]

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 39:58

Although contemporary art frequently describes the future as dystopian, there are many art projects that do not describe time, but merge with it, last in it, develop with it, and thus, in their own way, co-create the future. The present has become[]

Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 50:00

The conference focuses on the concept of contemporary art, especially on the question of how much it is able to shape ideas for the future. If modernism was to a large extent oriented towards the future and postmodernism towards the past, then we[]

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 24:38

A few key interpretations of the concept of contemporaneity were in Socialist Yugoslavia considered as formative for the construction of the model of self-management in socialist society, most notably in its cultural sphere. In the artistic practice,[]

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 24:37

How can ideas of the incomplete and strange serve to think through contemporary art, its temporality and narratives? What is the place of intimacy and scale in framing what is said and unsaid across the platforms of contemporary art?

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM

This paper departs from the experience of the current Shanghai Biennale to make an apology of biennial art and globalized art, in relation to the way they represent the experience of particulars involved in global synecdoches without the mediation of[]

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 25:11

The Soweto Project: Socially engaged practice in a real-world situation creates a new vocabulary centred on people. Participatory practice in action to construct a hopeful future against the neoliberal present.

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 49:44

Globalism-“fin-de-siècle”-global museum-global discourse-global art? Did it happen this way, the promise of the brighter days to come? However, as the philosopher Louis Althusser is always reminding us, the future lasts forever.

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 24:35

We can imagine a multitude of communal futures and pluriversal knowledge, instead of thinking in singular – however progressively global this singularity should become. The seemingly-real, well-received terms of[]

Type Conference
Date 6 December 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Društvo Igor Zabel
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 28:09

Fokianaki will explore how institutional and curatorial practices respond to the current economic and socio-political shifts in the West as well as the shift of liberal democracies towards what Nicos Poulantzas has named authoritarian statism. She[]

Subtitle Presentation of Šum #10 journal
Date 28 November 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production ŠUM, revija
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 35:53

We invite you to the presentation of the thematic section of the new Šum journal issue entitled “/…/ gradually the idea of ‘contemporary art’ was formed”, dedicated to the establishment of the concept of[]

Subtitle Kerbler’s photography from the angle of ethnology
Type Lecture
Date 16 November 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Duration 79:34

Subtitle Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art / Case study: [New] Tendencies
Type Electonic art, Cybernetics, Programmed / software art, Computer art, Triennial
Date 15 November 2018
Production MG+MSUM
City of production Slovenia
Duration 89:42

The lecture was a part of the opening program of  Sites of Sustainability. Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts exhibition. []

Subtitle Yugoslav Monuments Associated with the First World War (1918–1941)
Type Lecture , Symposium
Date 19 October 2018
Production Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, FF, UNI LJ
City of production Slovenia
Co-production MG+MSUM

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

Subtitle Yugoslav Monuments Associated with the First World War (1918–1941)
Type Lecture , Symposium
Date 19 October 2018
Production Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, FF, UNI LJ
City of production Slovenia
Co-production MG+MSUM

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

Subtitle Yugoslav Monuments Associated with the First World War (1918–1941)
Type Lecture , Symposium
Date 19 October 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, FF, UNI LJ
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 30:40

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

Type Lecture , Symposium
Date 19 October 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, FF, UNI LJ
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 41:02

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

Subtitle Yugoslav Monuments Associated with the First World War (1918–1941)
Type Lecture , Symposium
Date 19 October 2018
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, FF, UNI LJ
Co-production MG+MSUM
Duration 37:02

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]