NAME: Drustvo Arhitektov in Likovnih Umetnikov Koroske
SYMPOSIUM SLUT 2008
SLOVENJ GRADEC FINE ARTS CREATIVE WEEK
»Artistic future premonition«
20. – 22. NOVEMBER

 

SHORT BIO:

After last year’s first and successful organization of symposium SLUT, DALUK association organizes the 2nd Symposium SLUT, which is intended by its content for laic and professional public of Carinthia. Last year’s main theme of the symposium was presented by a cycle of public lectures regarding the theme “Challenges and traps of artistic future”. Lectures were well visited, which gave us the encouragement to organize a similar program for this year.
Symposium SLUT08 will take place from Thursday, 20th of November, till Saturday, 22nd of November. Program consists of four independent events, which are nevertheless connected:

  1. PAINTING AND SCULPTURING ARTISTIC WORKSHOP (Thursday 20.11. till Saturday 22.11.)
  2. CYCLE OF PUBLIC LECTURES (Thursday 20.11. 14:00)
  3. ARTISTIC WORKSHOP SLUT08 EXHIBITION OPENING (Saturday 22.11., 18:00)
  4. RELEASE OF PUBLICATION WITH PAPERS FROM SYMPOSIUM SLUT07 (Thursday 20.11.)

CYCLE OF PUBLIC LECTURES in the framework "Necessary Discourse" in
Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti

(Thursday 20.11. 14:00)

The main core of the symposium is presented by a cycle of public lectures, to which everybody are warmly welcome, especially artists and educators, architects and urbanists, art historians and critics. This year’s main theme of papers is “ART IDENTITY OF CITIES and ART IN PUBLIC SPACE OF THE TOWN SLOVENJ GRADEC”. We invited five people to work with us, which are experts, each in his own respective field, and will choose the theme of the paper independently in the scope of the main theme. People, who received invitations:

Prof. Pino Poggi – sculptor, social aesthetics; Marko Košan – art historian; Matjaž Zanoškar – mayor of MOSG and Boštjan Temniker – architect and sculptor.

With the chosen theme we wish to create a dialog in Carinthia and more specifically in Slovenj Gradec between experts, designers and users of public town spaces. The fact is that the number of free surfaces for building new urban ambiences is getting smaller by the day, and another fact is that interventions in public spaces of the town have lasting or longterm character, this is why it is so important to plan with thought and to complete the aforementioned dialog. Town is a living organism, which changes constantly through tim and completes its image, but preserves the most quality parts of this image. There are a lot of functions, which are trying to be satisfied by the town’s surfaces, but only art is the one, for which it seems that we have too little feeling nowadays. For a town to function and for the townsmen to accept it as their own, it is not enough to take care for nowadays selfevident infrastructure, such as traffic and communal infrastructure, but we have to give attention to the town’s space also from the art side.
At the symposium, we will try to answer numerous questions that deal with the problem of modern town managing. To name a few: What represents the art identity of a town? What is public art space and what is public interest in this space? What is represented by exhibitions, moving and removing of sculptures from the urban space? What meaning does canceling of public tenders has for the town? How to connect the new with the old? Can we learn from the past? Etc.