Public lectures at first Art Module

The first Art Module of the project Criticize this! will begin with a series of lectures and seminars which will take place from September 29 to October 2, 2011 in the Cultural Centre Dom omladine Belgrade. Public lectures will be given by Svetlana Slapšak, Nenad Veličković and Peter Klepec, who will also participate in the final public discussion.

Svetlana Slapšak will give a lecture titled „What do truth and responsibility do in literature?“ (On the situation of literary criticism, inscribed in responsibility and relation to the past) on September 29 at 6 pm.

Peter Klepec will give a lecture titled „It’s time for alternative“ (Crisis of politics and the position of culture) on September 30 at 6 pm.

Nenad Veličković will give a lecture titled „Reading – the thin end of the wedge“ (Abuse of literature in school) on October 1 at 6 pm.

On October 1 at 8 pm the mentioned lecturers will participate in a public discussion on the topic of „What kind of criticism do we need?“ moderated by Saša Ilić.

The public lectures and the discussion will take place in the Panel Hall of the Cultural Centre Dom omladine Belgrade (1st floor).

Program javnih predavanja i diskusije Art modula I

The invited lecturers will also hold seminars which will be attended by established critics in the field of literature, performing and visual arts together with 11 young art critics selected to participate in the Art Module.

Mentors for literature are Saša Ćirić and Boris Postnikov, for performing arts Ivan Medenica and Igor Ružić, and for visual arts Miha Colner and Darka Radosavljević Vasiljević.

Young art critics, participants of the first Art Module, in the field of literature are: Nikola Đoković (Kragujevac), Lamija Neimarlija (Sarajevo), Leda Sutlović (Zagreb) and Ivan Telebar (Varaždin), in the field of visual arts: Ana Bogdanović (Beograd), Anita Kojundžić (Split) and Tihana Bertek (Zagreb), and in the field of performing arts: Ivana Anić (Zagreb), Vanja Nikolić (Novi Sad), Nikola Skočajić (Beograd) and Sandro Siljan (Pula).

Following the public events of the first Art Module young arts critics will intensively work with mentors, which will result in 88 art reviews in all three artistic fields and in 11 essays. The art reviews will be published on partners’ web portals and the European portal Eurozine, and they will be published as a supplement in daily newspapers “Danas” and “Pobjeda” and in weekly newspaper “Novosti”.