Naslov
The Development of the SCCA Network – Case Study Croatia

Autori
Jakšić, Jasna ; Puc, Tihana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Scars: Reflections on Art and Society in Central-East Europe in the 1990s

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 09.07.2021. - 10.07.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
SCCA, contemporary art, history of exhibitions, artistic networks

Sažetak
The presentation aims to trace and analyse the development of Soros Centers for Contemporary Art (SCCA) network in the 1990s in the countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia. The main focus will be on the SCCA Zagreb, however, the presentation will also touch upon the activities of the centres established in Ljubljana, Belgrade, Skopje, Sarajevo and Tirana, the central venue of the network in Budapest, as well as the centres with which the SCCA Zagreb has had joint and collaborative projects, such as Sophia, Prague, Bratislava, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and Kiev. Founded in Budapest in 1992, as a part of cultural policy of the Open Society Institute, the SCCA network introduced not only new practices in the documentation, dissemination and presentation of contemporary art in post-socialist countries but in project-based organisation and collaboration between the Centers as well. At the beginning of the 1990s, when art institutions and organisations in those countries were striving towards the West, the SCCA network promoted collaboration between the art scenes of Central and Eastern Europe. With the aim of situating SCCA Zagreb into the wider network of SCCAs, it is precisely the relations emerging from these collaborations and their implications on the participating actors that are the focus of the presentation. In order to explore the development and the character of the network established through the activity of the SCCAs and the links between the actors involved, the data about collaborations and exhibitions will be collected and analysed computationally. The distant reading of the network data will enable the unveiling of the underlying structure of the network and the relations between the nodes that mediated the collaborations and artists’ circulation. Furthermore, the data about the artists who participated in the SCCAs exhibitions will be collected and analysed to examine the impact of the network on their trajectories with respect to both the regional and broader international context.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

POVEZANOST RADA