Performing Visuality, Performing Life: Art Practices in Slovenia from the ’60s to the ’80s
14.10.2009 | Performing Visuality, Performing Life: art practices in Slovenia from 60s to 80s
A special, extended issue of the Maska journal, Performing Visuality, Performing Life: Art Practices in Slovenia from the 1960s to the 1980s, represents a fresh contribution to the historical examination of art practices, especially in the field of performing, visual and video art, whereby it wants to bring to light part of the history of artistic creativity in Slovenia.
Nine extensive contributions were made on the basis of a one-year eponymous research project, especially with the help of the testimonies of the still living protagonists and by collecting and analysing historical material. This is why these contributions represent a material basis for establishing a history of art practices and a starting point for further study and reflection.
The heterogeneous collection of contributions brings: a view on the parallels between cultural policy and the theatre institution, an elucidation of the activities of the Pekarna theatre and Celje Dance Theatre, a more detailed insight into the Celje alternative in relation to conceptual art, an analysis of theoretical bases of the OHO group, a presentation of the network of contemporary dance activities in Ljubljana, the question of happenings in the framework of theatre structures, the examination of the beginnings of video art and the connection of politics and art as inscribed in the institution of the Museum of Modern Art in the period of Zoran Kržišnik.
The following people cooperated in the research: Barbara Borčić, Petja Grafenauer, Ida Hiršenfelder, Andreja Kopač, Barbara Orel, Mojca Puncer, Karla Železnik, Samo Gosarič, Primož Jesenko and Katja Praznik.
Maska, vol. XXIV, no. 123-124, summer 2009 – special enlarged edition
A special, extended issue of the Maska journal, Performing Visuality, Performing Life: Art Practices in Slovenia from the 1960s to the 1980s, represents a fresh contribution to the historical examination of art practices, especially in the field of performing, visual and video art, whereby it wants to bring to light part of the history of artistic creativity in Slovenia.
Nine extensive contributions were made on the basis of a one-year eponymous research project, especially with the help of the testimonies of the still living protagonists and by collecting and analysing historical material. This is why these contributions represent a material basis for establishing a history of art practices and a starting point for further study and reflection.
The heterogeneous collection of contributions brings: a view on the parallels between cultural policy and the theatre institution, an elucidation of the activities of the Pekarna theatre and Celje Dance Theatre, a more detailed insight into the Celje alternative in relation to conceptual art, an analysis of theoretical bases of the OHO group, a presentation of the network of contemporary dance activities in Ljubljana, the question of happenings in the framework of theatre structures, the examination of the beginnings of video art and the connection of politics and art as inscribed in the institution of the Museum of Modern Art in the period of Zoran Kržišnik.
The following people cooperated in the research: Barbara Borčić, Petja Grafenauer, Ida Hiršenfelder, Andreja Kopač, Barbara Orel, Mojca Puncer, Karla Železnik, Samo Gosarič, Primož Jesenko and Katja Praznik.
Maska, vol. XXIV, no. 123-124, summer 2009 – special enlarged edition
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