The publishing program of the SCCA-Ljubljana presents an important
contribution to theory and practice in the field of contemporary arts and is
in addition connected to the programs and projects of the center.

Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998

Archive and documentary material - a coprehensive collection of the available documentation on video production (authors, works, CV, bibliography...) and the related activities.

Artists: Vuk Ćosić, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Nuša Dragan, Srečo Dragan, Jasna Hribernik, Marko Košnik, Marko A.Kovačič, Ema Kugler, Andrej Lupinc - Keller, Marijan Osole - Max, Marko Peljhan, Sašo Podgoršek, Nataša Prosenc, Rok Sieberer - Kuri, Mirko Simić, Apolonija Šušteršič, Peter Vezjak - Retrovizija, Miha Vipotnik, Sašo Vrabič, Andrej Zdravič, ZANK - Zemira Alajbegović and Neven Korda.

Book of Essays

The selected texts give an insight view on video production in Slovenia in different contexts (its beginnings within the conceptual work of the OHO group; exploration of the video as a new medium or a new communication and information technology; its impact within the alternative scene; the emergence of the complex art video works), or in relation to the television and other art fields (film, fine arts, theatre).

Texts:

Barbara Borčić: Introduction: Reception of Video Production in Slovenia
Brane Kovič: The Beginnings of Slovene Video: Prolegomena to ‘War of Signs’
Zemira Alajbegović: The Frozen Time - The Eighties, ŠKUC -Forum, FV Video and Others
Bogdan Lešnik: Video and the ‘Alternative Cultural Scene’ in the 80’s in Slovenia Majda Širca: The Futurists
Nerina Kocjančič: The Nineties: from Video Genres to New Media
Melita Zajc: Video Production in Slovenia Prior to 1969: The Early Uses of Direct Broadcasting and of Video Recording on Ljubljana TV: a Look Into the Human Heart and the First Music Videos
Biljana Tomić: East of Eden: The History of Video in Yugoslavia
Zemira Alajbegović & Igor Španjol: In the Technological Grip of a Television Station: Interview with Miha Vipotnik
Nadja Zgonik: Video Conquering the Space
Koen van Daele: Dance - Video, aller-retour
Maja Breznik: Theatre in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility
Igor Španjol: Art Evening: Presentation and Production of Art Video on Television

CD-ROM

Includes an extended interactive version of the catalogue and book of essays with abundant visual material and short clips from the video works.

VIDEODOKUMENT CD-ROM has gained the 1st award in the category of the best interactive work in electronic media at the 7th International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor. Following the participation in the EuroPrix 2001 MultiMediaArt Contest it attained a connected listing in the EuroPrix Multimedia content CD-ROM, which was presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair and in Lisbon.

PlatfromaSCCA, the journal of SCCA-Ljubljana, is focused on the themes that would contribute considerably to the understanding of the contemporary art practice and its context.

Apart from providing the information on the centre's activities, we publish original texts and translations from the fields of art theory, critical theory and art criticism.

With the special section entitled Open Scene we wish to stimulate also writers from the younger generation, not yet experienced writers to offer us their contributions.

ŽEPNA (POCKET) EDITION
Publishing program of texts on arts and culture

SCCA-Ljubljana have conceived the Žepna (Pocket) Edition in collaboration with Založba /*cf. in 1999.

A series of texts and translations on the current art themes which are important for understanding of contemporary artistic production and its context. With such a publishing program we wish to promote the significance of the critical theory and reflective strategies of operating to the young generation of colleagues working in the field of contemporary art practice.

The books are published only in Slovene language.

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9 books have been published until now by the following authors: John Berger, R. Koolhaas & S. Sassen &, Ch. Abel, & M. Augć, CAE - Critical Art Ensemble, P. Ziff, & N. Goodman, Max Imdahl, Oliver Marchart, Charles Harrison, Victor Misiano, 0100101110101101.org & Luther Blissett.

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Stephen Bann, Display Across the Ages; Ute Meta Bauer, Do-It-Yourself: Exhibitions by Artists during the 20^th Century; Nadja Zgonik, The Role of National Identity Research in Theories of Display in Slovenia: Between Past and Present, Konstantin Akinsha, Notes on the Underground; Tadej Pogačar, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art and New Parasitism; Igor Zabel, Exhibition Strategies in the Nineties: A Few Examples from Slovenia; Vuk Ćosić, Net.Art, the Text.

price: $ 10,00

Charles Harrison: The Merits of Incompetence; Jaroslav Andel: Art’s shifting Grounds: The Case of Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic; Calin Dan: Geography of Doom. An Estimate of Possibilities; Irwin: Eastern Modernism - Three Exhibitions, Three Projects, Four Books; Dušan Rutar: Digital Aesthetics, global Images and Ethics of New Tribalism; Edi Muka: Permanent Instability; Marko Peljhan: Strategies of Minimal Resistance - Analysis of Tactical Work in the Surveillance Society

price: $ 15,00

Texts are available only in Slovene

Texts by Jure Mikuž: Slovenska umetnost med artes mehanicae in artes liberales, Andrej Smrekar: Wolfova oporoka, Sergej Kapus: Govor mita, Tanja Mastnak: Stereotipska ženskost, modernizem in Ivana Kobilca, Beti Žerovc: Vesna ob izviru umetnosti, Iztok Durjava: Slovenski impresionizem v luči polemike 1948-1949 in pogled v zgodovino, Tomislav Vignjevič: Med nasprotovanjem in kontradikcijo. O štirih slovenskih spomenikih

price: $ 10,00

Lilijana Stepančič: Urbanaria: Part One. Documents/Sketches of the Production Process; Marina Gržinić: Strategies of Virtualization of the City; Victor Misiano: From Urbs Repressivum to Urbs Paranoicum; Conversation between Paul Virilio and Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Braco Rotar: Trigonometry and Planification: a Utopian Point of View.

Catalogue Urbanaria, Part One, offers documents on 46 proposals on the art in urban context exhibition. The catalogue accompanied the exhibition held in National University Library in Ljubljana in 1994.

price: $ 15,00

Melita Zajc, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large. On Art and Knowledge of Contemporary Bodies and Spaces; Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Interview with Paul Virilio and Interview with Massimo Cacciari.

Catalogue Urbanaria, Part Two, offers a theoretical reflection on the Urbanaria project which was realized by SCCA-Ljubljana in 1994-97. The project dealt with art in the urban context. An international jury selected 14 projects by the following artists: Vuk Ćosić and Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, Maja Gspan Vičič and Petra Varl, Irwin, Marko A. Kovačič, Novi Kolektivizem, Mreža za Metelkovo and Retina, Marko Peljhan, Alenka Pirman, Tadej Pogačar, Marjetica Potrč, Nataša Prosenc, Nika Špan, Metod Vidic and Rajko Vidrih. Aleksander Brenner from Russia was invited as a guest.

Texts on projects were written by Andrej Kovalev, Lela B. Njatin, Zoja Skušek, Đurđa Otržan, Rastko Močnik, Marko Hren, Borut Brumen, Eda Čufer, Yuri Leiderman, Laura Mc Gough, Tomislav Vignjević, Goran Tomčić, Aleksandra Bašić and Miha Zadnikar.

price: $ 15,00

The public presentation of a collection of words took place in the National and University Library in Ljubljana in 1995.

Available only in Slovene

price: $ 10,00

The catalogue presents the exhibition project that dealt with the reception and interpretation of mass media through the historic viewpoint and contemporary works. The exhibition project consisted of exhibition (Dara Birnbaum, Dragomil Bole, Michael Brodsky, Rosa Brueckl, Gregor Schmoll, Veronika Dreier, Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Thomas Korschil, Marko Kovačič, Damijan Kracina, Dalibor Martinis, Hans-Jorg Mayer, Peter Weibel), internet projects (Vuk Čosić, Peter G. Hoffman), television spots (Irwin, Marko Peljhan/Projekt Atol) and avant-garde films (Bruce Conner, Ken Jacobs, Peter Tscherkassky, Mattias Muller, Martin Arnold).

Introductory texts
Lilijana Stepančič: Introduction, Vanesa Cvahte: Media in Media, Melita Zajc: Fast Cars, Hard Sounds
Texts on individual projects
B.H.D. Buchloh, P. Lampič, M- Brodsky, A. Spiegl, F. Niegelhell, M. Gržinić & A. Šmid, Th. Korschil, B. Lešnik, T. Vignjević, N. Beroš, N. Rottner, M. Michalka, V. Čosić, almosen, M. Rogač.

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Catalogue of the exhibition by two Lithuanian photographers in Slovenia. High quality bw reproductions representing the most significant work of their oeuvres (1969-1989).

Slovene / English edition

price: $ 7,50

Published by OSI-Slovenia (SCCA-Ljubljana), June 2000
Edited by Alenka Pirman
bw print, 90 pages
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English edition.

The publication covers the research and education projects within the Soros Centers for Contemporary Arts Network programme from 1998 to 2000.
Part I. - Programme
Part II. - Projects: Almaty, Vilnius, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warshaw, Chisinau, Bratislava, Odessa, Skopje, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Tallinn, Ljubljana, Bucharest.
Part III. - Parallel Action