Paper short abstract:

I curated a biennial of contemporary art in Ljubljana in 2011, which I dedicated to rethinking how and why did art event experience such a remarkable development in the 20th century and today appears as a privileged medium. I will present an abstract of two months of performing and theorizing.

Paper long abstract:

I curated a biennial of contemporary art in Ljubljana, Slovenia in autumn 2011. I dedicated the whole manifestation to the theme of art event and rethinking how and why did art event experience such a remarkable development in the twentieth century and even today appears as a privileged medium with a broad range of different forms

In the exhibition, as well as in an extensive programme of artistic and theoretical events (http://29gbljubljana.wordpress.com) the questions were asked: Why and how has the event become a suitable vehicle for such different artistic aims, aesthetics, and content? Is the choice of this medium a response to specific impulses and voids in our "desacralized" everyday existence? And what are the potential dangers of this development, especially since it is happening more and more in the completely formalized setting of art institutions, which in recent decades not only house and exhibit contemporary art, but also commission and produce it.

At the conference I will present an abstract of these two months of performing and theorizing; what where the most common conclusions and which topics stayed untouched, no matter how I tried to bring them into discussion.