INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
With the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics Art and Politics

The Imagination of Opposition in Europe

University College Dublin April 29 - 30, 2004

How does 'art' intersect 'politics' either when all art is politics or
when politics forcibly subsumes art to its will? In the modernist
tradition, art and politics are autonomous fields. In totalitarian
societies, everything is politics, with all differentiation disappearing
along with the limits between public and private spheres.

In post-imperial societies it is seen as evident that art was rarely
independent, playing as it did its own part in the imperialist politics of
cultural hegemony and giving rise to various kinds of post-imperial
cultural headaches. In post-socialist societies, it becomes clear that,
with everything being political, art can produce a politics of its own,
making the invisible aesthetic process that makes the cultural hegemony of
the socialist regime visible.

In the case of Slovenia, Neue Slowenische Kunst, as a collective project
starting from 1980 on, is the most outstanding case of the art of the
Eighties. It is an important starting point for analyses of how art and
artists react and interact with different political hegemonies -
underlying shared and differentiated experiences in both contemporary and
historical Europe.

An international panel of artists, art historians, critics, academics and
arts professionals will compare and contrast European experiences based
upon the themes above.

Further conference and registration details are available by post or by
email from the Dublin European Institute, UCD, Belfield, email deiucd.ie.
While the programme is being finalised, panellists thus far confirmed
include: Judith Devlin, Aless Erjavec, Lev Kreft, Bojana Kunst, Marina
Grzinic Mauhler, Paula Murphy, Misko Suvakovic and Alexei Monroe.
Registration fee EUR25 (professional) and EUR10 (concessionary - including
full-time registered students)

Further information concerning this and the Neue Slowenische Kunst Event
Dublin 2004 - http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net/nskdublin2004/

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Noel Kelly Partner - Programs & Projects The Art Projects Network
http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net
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