[oberlist] 31st Youth Salon : Where To Elect There Is But One

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*31st Youth Salon : Where To Elect There Is But One *

*HDLU - Croatian Association of Visual Artists*

Trg žrtava fašizma bb, Zagreb, Croatia

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*4th-23rd of September 2012.*

Opening hours: 4:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Admission free


*Curator of the 31st Youth Salon / Info:*

FB: SalonMladih Korekcije

Vladimir Čajkovac

cajkovac.vladimir at gmail.com

LinkedIn: vladimir cajkovac



*31. SALON MLADIH : KOREKCIJE*

*31st YOUTH SALON : WHERE TO ELECT THERE IS BUT ONE *



"Where to elect there is but one, / 'Tis Hobson's choice - take that, or
none," says Thomas Ward in his 1688 poem "England's Reformation", referring
to the famous Hobson's paradoxical choice of "take it or leave it". As the
story goes, Hobson rented horses and let the customer choose whichever they
wanted, provided that the horse picked was the closest one to the
stable-door. A couple hundred years later, in light of the theoretical
discourse of choice, Hobson's choice resounds as a brisk and resigned
satire of all the resistance movements, from his contemporary Guy Fawkes to
our own contemporaries, the various Occupy movements, who hide themselves
behind the masks of the very same anarchist from London.

It would be difficult, even impossible perhaps, to determine the actual
number of biennial exhibitions worldwide, but we can safely guess that
there may be hundreds of them, that they differ in scope, and that there
are very few of them which, not unlike our Youth Salon, stubbornly attempt
to change, redefine and even abolish themselves with each new incarnation.
Ever since its inception in 1968, each new Salon has, in its own way,
attempted to evade the fundamentals of either Cross-section or Situation
approach to current art production; nevertheless there remains a constant
paradoxical truth that all the Salons have so far fallen victim to a
single, distinctive trait of the political reality of the region (and
beyond). Regardless of the changes' course, for better or for worse, each
new elected body has thoroughly rejected the work of the previous one and
has started from scratch. From uncompromising selection, foreign guests,
open ateliers, authors' exhibitions, across the revolution and all the way
to the market, there have been so many approaches, tried, proven and soon
abandoned after they had demonstrated their precise advantages and
weaknesses. This year's Salon intends to go back to those successful
attempts of fellow curators and artists, to establish a continuum by
reapplying their well-proven methods and bring to the fore the one question
that lingers in the background of these exhibitions: is there any possible
way of artistic rebellion through institutionalized channels?

This very question is the cornerstone of the exhibition at hand. The
diagnoses, in keeping with the previous exhibitions, persist: in many cases
the level of visual literacy is extremely low, the submitted works of art
are accompanied by texts that (even though produced by future holders of
university level degrees) sometimes happen to be inarticulate almost to the
point of amazement, while the inventiveness or the level of performance are
largely indicative of the absence of any interest and self-education. In
line with this, it is my opinion that this selection suffers from the same
ailments that plague any group exhibition. In other words, the criteria
differ from and struggle not against the intention of presenting the finest
of the production, but the requirements of the review exhibition of the
Youth Salon: to highlight the new names, bring out the artists whose
concept or execution stand out in any way, or who have submitted
applications that were complete, well-devised and made sufficient sense.
One should not, however, presume that there are no rejected works better
than those accepted. This might indeed be the case, and it is precisely why
the archive of the submitted applications is open: because the
Cross-section and the Situation are not only represented by the exhibited
works, but by the works which have been rejected, as well as those works
which have refused to apply to Salon.

This Salon considers everyone accepted and, therefore, this issue's
program, the Corrections, is open to everyone. Youth Salon is not a single
month in two years' time. In fact, the issue of the future life of the
Salon lies not in the exhibition alone, but in the work between two Salons,
all the efforts made by participants, the collaboration between the
institution and the individual, and the development of the system of
education. It is safe to establish that the said has been true, or at least
partially applicable to the concepts of all the previous exhibitions.
Accordingly,
it is very likely that such situation will go on by sheer inertia. This
year's Youth Salon is yet another experiment, the 31st in a series of
experiments and its results must be observed in light of its experimental
nature; which is exactly what the Salon can and should, if nothing else,
afford itself.



*Curator of the 31st Youth Salon:*

Vladimir Čajkovac

*Exhibited:* Jelena Azinović, Vanja Babić, Jelena Dabić, Sebastijan Dračić,
Dalia Finek, Martina Grlić, Luka Hrgović and Duje Medić, Vida Guzmić, Nina
Kurtela, Ivan Latin, Hana Miletić, OKO, Pavle Pavlović, Petar Popijač, Ivan
Prerad, Dina Rončević, Igor Ruf, Damir Sobota, Lana Stojićević, Stipan
Tadić, Vanja Trobić i Damir Žižić.

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*PROGRAM: CORRECTIONS*





*1. **Could artists rebel through institutions at all?***



The central issue of this year's Salon is the shape and purpose of the
exhibition as Salon gradually came to oppose the institutionalized events
and the most frequent objection to the "exhibited cross-section of two
years' creative work" is directly opposite the original ideas of rebellion
of the young artists. This years' Salon features only 20 works out of 180
submitted, but the true paradox is in the fact that a large number of those
"rejected" - or in this Salon's preferred wording, "not included", has
already been included in exhibitions of more renown. What future format of
presentation will be responsible for treading new paths in art, while at
the same time providing space for the affirmation of upcoming young
artists, and must this platform necessarily have the format of an
exhibition?



*Leader: Karla Pudar*



*Wednesday, Septmeber 5th, 7:00 p.m.  *

Joanna Warsza, Laura Palmer Foundation, Warsaw

Marko Golub, HDD, Zagreb

Leila Topić, MSU, Zagreb



*Saturday, September 8th, 7:00 p.m.  *

Annabelle Diot, Lordculture, Pariz

Emily Butler, Whitechapel Gallery, London



*Saturday, Septmeber 15th, 7:00 p.m.*

Borbála Szalai, freelance curator, Budapest

Áron Fenyvesi, Trafó Gallery, Budapest

Andrej Bereta and Srđan Tunić, About and around curating. Belgrade

KPP - Curatorial Platform Practicum, Zagreb


*Lead by: Martina Kontošić, Tihana Puc,  Martina Vrbanić, Marko Janković*



*Friday, Septmeber 21st, 7:00 p.m.*

Biserka Cvjetičanin, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb

*From the European Coal and Steel Community to the Creative Europe:
European Cultural Policy and Cooperation*

Sanjin Dragojević, Faculty of Political Sciences, Zagreb

*The Importance of Strategic Planning for Culture Development*



*Saturday, September 22nd, 7:00 p.m.*

Stefano Baia Curioni, Universita' Bocconi, Milano

*Status Creation Process in the Contemporary Art*





*2. **PKP - Curatorial Platform Practicum***



Open office of the Curatorial Platform Practicum (KPP) is situated on the
second floor of the Ring.

Curatorial Platform (CP) is a project launched in the 2008 intended to
provide additional theoretical and practical training in the field of
contemporary art. CP is dedicated to improving the knowledge of visual arts
and to being a meeting place and a workplace for artists and curators from
Croatia and abroad. Along with two established research programs, *the
Methods and Strategies of Exhibition Practices and the Text and
Context,*this year's program includes the Curatorial Platform
Practicum. Work on an
actual exhibition project is an important part of the curator program, as
it provides the participants with an insight into possible methodological,
technical and theoretical tools available to them in the course of crafting
a concept and bringing about the devised project.



Curatorial Platform Practicum (CPP) was introduced to the life of the Salon
during the analyses and final defining stages of the current, 31st Youth
Salon. As a part of a learning experience, the Practicum is an attempt to
create an entity of critique within the Salon itself, striving to monitor
the work of the curator, analyse the concept, purpose and objectives of the
Salon, the 'selection' process of the artists involved, keep track of
events, and engage in dialogue with guests and participants of the entire
event.

Through analysis, research and exploration of the publicly open archive of
submitted works, the Curatorial Platform will try to deconstruct the Salon
with the ultimate goal of providing guidelines for its future
embodiments. Thus,
in dialogue with the current Salon and within the current "CORRECTIONS"
program, it strives to produce one of the possible curatorial concepts.

CPP will monitor, index and critically process the contents of the current
Salon and problematize the role and the future of the Youth Salon.



*Coordinator:* Mirna Rul



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*Participants of CPP:* Julija Gracin, Barbara Katić Jovanović, Čejen
Černić, Nevenka Šarčević, Irena Solenički, Ana Perišić, Tea Hatadi, Željana
Bilušica, Lena Di Sopra, Mirna Rul, Lidija Gamulin, Dora Sapunar i Ana
Benčik


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*PARALLEL SALON*



Committee for the Parallel Salon is located on the first floor of the Ring.

It is intended to create an opposition to the Salon by relying on the vague
traditions of Gorgona's legacy and the imaginary pavilions of the General
Idea Collective, rather than the methods of the traditional Salon of the
Reject. The Parallel Salon will be used as a tool in search of a vision of
what the Salon might have been, by means of browsing through and exploring
the submitted works, public reassessment of the contents of the archive of
submitted works, the selection criteria and the possibilities of
exhibition, exploring the opinions expressed by artists, visitors and
guests about the positions of the selection, the purpose of both the artist
and the institution, and by analysing the works and artists included in the
Salon of the Reject.

Research results will be included in the Catalogue of the Salon.

*Coordinators:* CPP and Vladimir Čajkovac.



The case for the Antisalon or the Salon of the Reject within the limits of
the Parallel Salon will be advocated by Vladimir Tatomir and Stipan Tadić.
We believe that in these cases we can no longer speak of rejected artists
or works of art, but that the Salon of the Reject is interesting as a case
study of young artists' positioning, the conditions that foster opposition
and the relationship between artists and institutions. We are pleased that
this year we can bring this aspect to the table of critique of the Salon's
institution.



An exhibition will be placed in the facilities of Medika Company. For
further information and application write to antisalon12 at gmail.com.

Organization of Antisalon / Salon of the Reject: Stipan Tadić, Vladimir
Tatomir



*ARCHIVE OF THE SUBMITTED WORKS*



Documentation regarding those participants who have applied for the Salon
and approve inclusion of their works in the program of "CORRECTIONS

" will be available for review.





*3. **SALON OUT OF*



One of the objectives of the current Salon is to broaden the Youth Salon's
operations beyond the scope of national selection and biennial exhibition.
Youth Salon exhibition will be host to Greek artist Petros Moris and Noah
Angell will hold a lecture upon recommendation of Irena Borić. At the
exhibition, which they will curate in October in the spaces of the HDLU,
the Youth Salon will attend the installation of works by a young artist
Mladen Miljanović for [BLOK].





*Thursday, Septmeber 13th, 7:00 p.m.*

Petros Moris, Curatorial Platform KERNEL, Atena - London

*Procedural: Collection - Structural Adornment / Inherited Activity*

Performance, interview with the artist



*Wednesday, September 18th, 8:00 p.m.*

Noah Angell

*Forgetting and Negative Space in the ethnographic field recording*

Performance-lecture, interview with the artist



*Date yet undetermined*

*Mladen Miljanović, Banja Luka*

*Goodnight / State of the Body*

Announcement of exhibition planned for October, curated by Ivana Hanaček,
Ana Kutleša and Marijana Rimanić for [BLOK] within project "In Between the
Worlds".
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*4. WORK PROGRAM*



*Workshops*

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Monday, September 17th, 6:00 p.m. - Friday, September 22nd, 6:00 p.m.

*Organization and promotion of an exhibition*

*Leader:* Tena Razumović



The intent of the workshop is the development of practical skills and
personal qualities required for the organization of art, design or event
exhibitions. The applicants will be educated as team members, but they will
nevertheless be exposed to a wide range of organizational issues. The
intention of the workshop is to entice the applicants to take active part
in the workshop, develop their skills in project planning, to encourage
them in the management of their projects, to help them acquire practical
knowledge in marketing and presentation of projects and to effectively
cooperate within a team, as well as act as its leader.



The applicants are encouraged to submit their application to e-mail address
hdlu at hdlu.hr, or at the telephone no 01/ not later than September 14th with
reference *Razumović*



Tuesday September 18th, 7:00 p.m.

*Artists as participants in labour market, with regard to copyright law and
financial implications*

*Leader: *Stribor Jurčić, copyright specialist



Panel on protection of copyrights owned by visual artists and realization
of rights arising from authoring a piece of art, part of the rich Pegaz
copyright education program for Croatian authors, producers and performance
artists in cooperation with HDLU. Free admission for all applicants.

This workshop will be dealing with the problems that the visual artist face
once they become a part of the labour force - whether they are to deliver
their pieces as freelance artists or they are employed as creative
personnel in production of web pages, logos, illustration etc. We would
like all of us to share our experience with issues such as copyright and
financial protection aspects of implied or written contractual engagements,
tax issues, chartered freelance artist status and, furthermore, the
problems of unlawful alteration of the copyright protected works,
plagiarism, unfair competition of "Chinese goods" and similar issues.



The applicants are encouraged to submit their application to e-mail address
hdlu at hdlu.hr, or at the telephone 01/ not later than September 14th with
reference *Jurčić*





*Ongoing program / Pilot program*

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*Friday, September 14th, 7:00 p.m.*

*Incubator - Case study*

Project managers / moderators of the debate: Marko Janković, Martina
Kontošić

Walking in the wake of a hypothesis stating that in between their
potentials, institutionalized education and realization, artists find
themselves in a logistic vacuum, the Salon will host a debate concerning
the development of focused support for young artists. Further developments
of the concept would include analyses of aspects of education, relations
with administrative bodies and issues of representation arising in the
course of cooperation between the artist and the project manager. The
desired outcome of such cooperation is increase in the number of artists
capable of overcoming the difficulties of adapting to the reality of market
conditions and life outside Academy, thus continuing their creative
production.



*GUIDE (through art scene and art market)*

*Closed debate*

Meeting of the Working Group established with the objective to develop the
project of organizing a market for contemporary art in Croatia by
determining the current situation, defining a framework for future
development, testing a system for creating value and defining a price for a
piece of contemporary art, and - after long-term study has been conducted -
assembling the insights in a handbook for purchase of works produced by
contemporary artists.



*Course - Cultural Management*

*Closed debate*

Meeting of the working group for initiation of a new university course for
management in culture, lectured within educational institutions belonging
to the University of Zagreb. The group shall meet to discuss and create a
framework for future contents of the course and examine the reality of
conducting such a course.





*5. **MOVIES***



*STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE -* open selection of movies dealing with issues
of rebellion and resistance

Sundays, 5:00 to 10:00 p.m.



*Video program -* a wide selection of short videos, including experimental
and music video.

Selection by: Livio Rajh

Tuesdays, 9:00 to 10:30 p.m.
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