24-03-2008
Necessary Discourse:hysteria (ND:hysteria)
update1:

ND:hysteria is an art exhibition.
ND:hysteria points out on the identified predicament “hysteria”.
ND:hysteria brings two generations of artists together.
ND:hysteria combines points of view of artists and scientists from other fields.
ND:hysteria gives the contemporary art museum an active role in the society.

These five points are the columns of the project. During the first month of work on the realization of ND:hysteria we collected several interesting and stimulating impulses, we want to communicate you, even to illustrate the process that will leads us to November 2008.

Hysteria can not only be interpreted as a rich and promising instrument to get influence on public opinion building, but there are also interesting thoughts that amplifies its contemporary meaning, such as:

• Hysteria – elections (US-elections Nov. 2008, Slovenian parliamentarian elections in Sept. 2008)
  
• Hysteria – current global economic crisis (incl. low US-dollar, high energy and food prices, etc.)
  
• Hysteria – trendy disease
  
• Hysteria – language evolution / extinction
  
• Hysteria – aging population in welfare-societies
  
• Hysteria – exceeded nations identity (e.g. Slovenia – Yugoslavia, Slovenia – EU)
  
• Hysteria – ecology, climatic change
  
• Hysteria – gene manipulation
  
• Hysteria – world religions (coexistence, dialogue)

During the 4-weeks exhibition-process we are planning to organize other activities such as symposia, lectures, performances, concerts, theatre, discussions, etc.
Some proposals that reached us:

• Lecture by Yael Ben Shalom (hysteria-memory-utopia-Israel-neuland-cionism)
  
• Lecture by Simon Bryceson (commercialisation of everyday life)
  
• Cither – concert (Mlakar)
  
• Music performance by Mukul Deora
  
• World Cultural Forum – symposium
  
• Discussion on topic “What Slovenians believe it’s not true in everyday media-news?”
  
• Jože Barši – Marx: Kapital, interpretation

The final part of the ND:hysteria will be the book in which all artworks, essays and public reactions will be documented.

So far the following partisans confirmed their participation:

Pino Poggi, Timm Ulrichs, Rainer Wittenborn, (Valie Export),
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Mladen Stropnik & Nataša Skušek, Lada Cerar & Sašo Sedlaček, Sašo Vrabič, Viktor Bernik, Jaša, Metka Zupanič, Vesna Bukovec, Arjan Pregl, Tanja Vujinović, Polona Tratnik

Peter N. Kirstein, Yael Katz Ben Shalom, WCF-Members, Robert Kurz, Loretta Napoleoni, Mukul Deora, Caroline Kihato, Simon Bryceson,

ND:hysteria is an ongoing process, therefore we are looking forward to collect your feedback and impulses, that we think are essential to create a relevant discourse and to legitimate its necessity.

Jernej Kožar & Rado Poggi