The symposium took place at 10 a.m. on Friday, 17 December 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3, Ljubljana.

Live stream archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4I7IZhWWO8

Themed section of Art Words no. 119 with scholarly articles and essays by participants in the symposium (PDF).

You are kindly invited to attend the “Interpretative Aspects in Contemporary Art 1991–2021” symposium organized by Moderna galerija to celebrate thirty years of Slovenia’s independence and focusing on the developments in contemporary fine and visual art over that period.

Participants:
Aleksander Bassin: Searching for a New Identity at the Reception of New Artistic Phenomena
Srečo Dragan, MA: For More-than-Art
Kaja Kraner, PhD: From Contemporaneity to Speculative Futurisms: The Politics of Temporality of Recent Approaches to Interpretation and Exhibition
Andrej Medved, PhD: The Photographed Apparition
Jožef Muhovič, PhD: Art in the Visible and Invisible Fields. The problem of the identity of art in postmodern fine and visual art
Mojca Puncer, PhD: Towards a Philosophy of Contemporary Art in Slovenia: Some Emphases
Jurij Selan, PhD: The Dual Role of Hypothetical Art in the Philosophy of Art and Contemporary Art Practice
Janez Strehovec, PhD: Sustainable Art Service

The symposium was in Slovenian.

Due to the epidemiological situation, the number of seats is limited, so please register beforehand by email at: ana.zan@mg-lj.si, or by phone: (01) 241 68 00.
To attend the symposium, visitors must meet one of the RVT (recovered, vaccinated, tested) conditions; certificates and other forms of proof will be checked on site, as will some form of identification. Please, use face masks and follow the other recommendations of the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia.
Should any further restrictions in organizing public events be imposed, the symposium will transfer online. The organizers reserve the right to change the program.

Attendance at the event is free.