Marko Batista

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The initiative for us to work together came from Borut Vogelnik, ALU professor, and Miran Mohar, mentor of The World of Art, a course for the curators of contemporary art, in a bid to connect young artists and curators, and encourage cooperation between them in terms of artistic creativity and its reflection. The way in which the two Venice projects were conducted boasts many similarities with my experience of the World of Art course that I attended in 2003. The World of Art is a one-year course aimed at training curators. They are to acquire the necessary knowledge by preparing an exhibition that is put up at the end of the course. Like the projects undertaken in Venice, the course has to be based on cooperation between its participants, if it is to result in a successful team work. .......

Problems of securing communication and cooperation, which appeared in Greyzone, were similar to the problems that I encountered while attending the course World of Art. To harmonize wishes and aspirations of the course participants and materialize them in an exhibition sometimes looked liked a mission impossible. Although the consensus we reached was only partial, the show that resulted was obviously needed for both, the participants and organisers of the course. Ironically, a misunderstanding in cooperation appeared also when I was writing this text, although it all looked very unproblematic in the beginning. But everybody is usually satisfied at the end, especially at the opening party. Or to quote Ilyja Kabakov while conversing with Boris Groys on the Venice biennale and its atmosphere: "It is not the contents but the atmosphere that attracts most. The same as with a party, the reason for a party is soon forgotten, because the party itself takes the spotlight. … Dolce far niente." ......... Tomaz Kucer


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KLON:ART:RESISTANCE COLLABORATION: MEDIATERRA 10th Sarajevo ZAGREB KINOTEKA Multicultural Moderna galerija ZERO ANALOG 10th ISTANBUL SIMULTAN03 New Delhi IZOLENTA 07 Slowtime Instant Access E-LIBRARY	link to official PHOTOFINISH database > http://www.ljudmila.org/system-error/photofinish/ The initiative for us to work together came from Borut Vogelnik, ALU professor, and Miran Mohar, mentor of The World of Art, a course for the curators of contemporary art, in a bid to connect young artists and curators, and encourage cooperation between them in terms of artistic creativity and its reflection. The way in which the two Venice projects were conducted boasts many similarities with my experience of the World of Art course that I attended in 2003. The World of Art is a one-year course aimed at training curators. They are to acquire the necessary knowledge by preparing an exhibition that is put up at the end of the course. Like the projects undertaken in Venice, the course has to be based on cooperation between its participants, if it is to result in a successful team work. ....... Problems of securing communication and cooperation, which appeared in Greyzone, were similar to the problems that I encountered while attending the course World of Art. To harmonize wishes and aspirations of the course participants and materialize them in an exhibition sometimes looked liked a mission impossible. Although the consensus we reached was only partial, the show that resulted was obviously needed for both, the participants and organisers of the course. Ironically, a misunderstanding in cooperation appeared also when I was writing this text, although it all looked very unproblematic in the beginning. But everybody is usually satisfied at the end, especially at the opening party. Or to quote Ilyja Kabakov while conversing with Boris Groys on the Venice biennale and its atmosphere: "It is not the contents but the atmosphere that attracts most. The same as with a party, the reason for a party is soon forgotten, because the party itself takes the spotlight. … Dolce far niente." ......... Tomaz Kucer