Long Durations and Ideas about the Future

performative discourse program in partnership with Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana

05.06.2017. @ Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Symposium“(Post-) Yugoslavia and long durations – on social antagonisms through the art and culture of the long 20th century”

Schedule:

12:00 – 13:00 Tijana Okić
13:00 – 14:00 Miklavž Komelj

15:00 – 16:00 Tatomir Toroman
16:00 – 17:00 Sezgin Boynik

17:00 – 18:00 final discussion

Long Durations and Ideas about the Future consists of a series of interventions in the form of discussions and workshops, focusing on the social antagonisms of the post-Yugoslav political space through the prism of material and ideological heritage, the continuity of cultural networks, and the potential of the future, all of which taken together is called the Yugoslav experience.

The first in the series in May was a discussion about the diverse approaches to Yugoslav archives, the abuse of heritage for the sake of revising the emancipatory history of the 20th century, and possible responses to the growing reactionary revisionism. This was followed by a workshop on alternative archives, the digitization of archival material, and the forms of disseminating knowledge.

The second part of the series in June will comprise a symposium focusing, via specific artistic practices and social movements, on the constancy and constant instability of structures of long duration, such as nation states, capitalist economies, and imperialisms, in our region. The final workshops will bring to the fore the ways cultural and artistic agents interconnect and the forms of their imaginary institutionalizing after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, raising the question of the general state of artistic imagination in the political conceptions of the future in the context of the failing hegemony of the West and democratic societies in general.

Full program:

24.05.2017 @ Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Seminar “Uses and Abuses of Heritage – Revisions and Reactionism”
Speakers: Milan Radanović and Suzana Milevska; participants at the discussion: Tanja Petrović and Dragan Markovina.

25.05.2017 @ Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Public library workshop: moderated by Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Dubravka Sekulić.

05.06.2017 @ Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Symposium“(Post-) Yugoslavia and long durations – on social antagonisms through the art and culture of the long 20th century”: Tijana Okić, Sezgin Boynik, Miklavž Komelj.

06.09.2017 @ Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Workshop “Imaginary Institutions – Post-Yugoslav Stateless Institutions”: headed by Ana Vujanović participants: Slaven Tolj and Emina Višnić (Rijeka 2020); Rok Vevar and Dragana Afirević (Nomad Ljubljana), Vladimir Đurišić and Mika Buljević.

07.09.2017 @ Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Workshop “The Disintegration of Hegemony and Ideas about the Future”, headed by
Janez Janša, collaborators: Katerina Kolozova, Antonia Majača and Jelena Vesić.