*Imagine you're from Beirut and somebody says, "do you travel?" and you're like, "Yeah! Ljublana, Slovenia! Love them, got lots of friends there," and it's true.
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana
Urbanaria in Beirut
Contemporary Artistic Revolutions: An Institutional PerspectiveExhibition
February 28-July 15, 2017
Opening: February 28, 2017, at 6 pmConference
March 1-2, 2017AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery / ABU Art Collections and Galleries
Department of Fine Arts and Art History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Urbanaria projects / SCCA-Ljubljana and Barbara Borčić, program advisor and head of video programs at SCCA-Ljubljana, will participate at the international art project Contemporary Artistic Revolutions: An Institutional Perspective that takes place in Beirut in Lebanon from February 28 until July 15, 2017.
Barbara Borčić will present the Urbanaria projects/SCCA-Ljubljana at the conference and has selected for the exhibition the following art works:
- New Collectivism: NSK Post, exhibition (1994), leaflet and the collection of stamps;
- IRWIN, Uršula Noordung (1995), teddy bear;
- Alexander Brener, Street Fighter and His Limits, performance (1995), video documentation.About Urbanaria. Art In the Urban Context (1994–1997)
Urbanaria's general concept was art in the urban context. The Urbanaria - Part One had primarily a character of a research. Its conclusion was a conceptual exhibition of all submitted proposals entitled Sketches/Documents of the Production Process, accompanied by a catalogue. Urbanaria - Part Two comprised thirteen separate projects, installations, actions and events, presented in the second catalogue. The common characteristic of these projects was that they exploited the effectiveness of advertising, design and the mass media.
 
About the Contemporary Artistic Revolutions: An Institutional Perspective
»This year AUB Art Galleries joins these debates and brings a different approach and perspective to the theme. First of all, we would like simultaneously to translate recent dialogues surrounding contemporary art into the format of an art exhibition, an academic conference, and a publication; secondly, we are seeking ways to emphasize the problematic of the contemporary by drawing attention to debates over “what is” or “was” contemporary art as they unfolded in “non-Western” parts of the world. For this event – which we have titled: Contemporary Artistic Revolutions: An Institutional Perspective – we invited artists, scholars, and art historians to share with us their research on the emergence of the co-called “contemporary paradigm” within their respective artistic milieux. We are looking into the earliest art events and those forces that locally affirmed the contemporary as a new mode of artistic production.«
(Octavian Esanu, Curator, AUB Art Galleries)MORE >
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SCCA-Ljubljana program is supported by Municipality of Ljubljana and Ministry of Culture of the RS.
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