Avant-Garde and the End of the World: International Conference with Artistic Programme
Research Centre for Humanities and School of Humanities of University of Nova Gorica organize:
Avant-Garde and the End of the World
International Conference with Artistic Programme
10.–12. 10. 2024, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
The conference Avant-garde and the End of the World focuses on the ways of creating a radical vision of the world. It aims to create a platform for discussing the role of literature, art, and activism in facing contemporary challenges and to explore how the avant-garde contributes to understanding, shaping, and reshaping the world in the context of apocalypse.
The event will mark the centenary of The First Constructivist Exhibition of the avant-garde artist Avgust Černigoj whose work has significantly contributed to the understanding of socially engaged art and to overcoming the boundary between life and art.
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Till the end of October, the topic of the avant-garde and the end of the world will also provoke contributions on Radio Študent: https://radiostudent.si/avantgarda-in-konec-sveta
PROGRAMME
10. 10. 2024
Xcenter
11.30–13.30: STREET INTERVENTION CONSTRUCTING A POEM
Constructivist workshop with Mateja Kralj, Simon Kastelic, and Rafael Vončina.
Xcenter
16.00–18.00: NEW MEDIA ART INSTALLATION VEDUTA CRUMBLES I
Ana Pepelnik, Lina Rica in Miha Šajina – Shekuza
Grad Kromberk
19.00: INAUGURAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
(This event will be in Slovenian language.)
Moderated by: Polona Torkar
Welcome Speeches: Vladimir Peruničič, Director of the Goriška Museum; mag. Marko Rusjan, State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia; dr. Boštjan Golob, Rector of the University of Nova Gorica; dr. Oto Luthar, Director of ZRC SAZU and Head of the Research Programme “Historical Interpretations of the 20th Century;” and dr. Lev Kreft, Sophia Publishing House
Opening Keynote: Peter Krečič alongside the works of Avgust Černigoj as part of the Goriška Museum exhibition: Avgust Černigoj and the Foundation of Slovenian Historical Avant-Garde
11. 10. 2024
SNG Nova Gorica
10.00–18.15 PANEL DISCUSSIONS
10.00–11.30: Revolutionary Time (vodja: Lev Kreft)
Sanja Bojanić: Endings and Continuities: Avant-Garde and Meaning-Making
Joseph Grim Feinberg: The Folk Is Dead, Long Live the People! On the New and the Old in Czech Marxist Poetism
Ivana Peruško: The Apocalypse of Avant-Garde Time: Bolshevism vs. Futurism
11.45–13.15: Prophetic Visions (vodja: Kristina Pranjić)
Antonio Milovina: The Decline of Atlantis and the Rise of the East: The “Revival in Flames” in A. N. Tolstoy's Aelita
Vid Bešter: The Prophet Without God
Miroslav Griško: Total Art of the True Anti-Demiurgic Spearhead
15.00–16.30: Imagination amidst the Apocalypse (vodja: Peter Purg)
Lev Kreft: Variations of the End of the World
Tery Žeželj: Bogdanka Poznanović, Katalin Ladik, and Milica Mrđa on the Shorelines: Aqueous Imaginaries to End this World
Tatjana Petzer: Eschaton, or Harmony. Bohdan-Ihor Antonych’s Green Poetry
16.45–18.15: Final Transformations (vodja: Ivana Peruško)
Tomaž Toporišič: Kosovel’s diaries “through the nothingness of negativism to the true constructive path.”
Tijana Koprivica: The Last Word at the End of the World: Lie and Suicide in Rastko Petrović’s Otkrovenje (1922)
Lela Angela Mršek Bajda: Neue Slowenische Kunst and the End of the World
Bevk Square
20.00: THEATRE PERFORMANCE EVACUATION OF THE SPIRIT, xMobil (GO! 2025)
Directed by: Aljoša Živadinov Zupančič
12. 10. 2024
Xcenter
10.00–13.15: PANEL DISCUSSIONS
10.00–11.30: Subversive Interventions (vodja: Joseph Grim Feinberg)
Giorgia Maurovich: Terrorism as One of the Fine Arts
Primož Krašovec: Real Subsumption of Intelligence
Francesco Scarel: Serendipity: A New Perspective for Artistic Avant-Garde
11.45–13.15: Beyond the End (vodja: Tatjana Petzer)
Lana Zdravković: After All: The End or a New Beginning?
Emilija Vučićević: Stuck in the Form(at): The Image of Angelus Novus in the Poetry Book Ictus by Bojan Vasić
Dragan Živadinov: THIRD ITERATION:: 1995 – 2025 – 2045
15.00–16.00: CLOSING KEYNOTE: Tania Ørum: To be Continued.
16.15–17.00: CONCLUDING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, Tery Žeželj
Mostovna
19.30: NEW MEDIA ART PERFORMANCE VEDUTA CRUMBLES II
Blaž Božič, Farah Sara Kurnik – Liara T’soni in Aleš Hieng – Zergon
Mostovna
21.00: CONCERT: Sulla Lingua (AUS/ITA)
Anthony Pateras, Stefano Pilia in Riccardo La Foresta
(The concert is organized in cooperation with the SAJETA international music festival and the FOCUS project of the Association Mink Tolmin.)
CREDITS
Conference concept and programme: Kristina Pranjić
Conference board: Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, Tery Žeželj, Lev Kreft
Programme advisor, promotion, and public communication: Polona Torkar and Tery Žeželj
Creation of the accompanying radio programme: Vid Bešter and Metod Zupan, for Radio Študent
Event organisation at Kromberk Castle: Katarina Brešan and Davor Kernel, for Goriška
Museum
Organisation of the theatre performance Evacuation of the Spirit with xMobil: Peter Purg, for GO!2025
Workshop organisation: Mateja Kralj, for Društvo Konstruktivist; Miha Kosovel and Katja Pahor, for Društvo humanistov Goriške
New media artwork Veduta Crumbles organisation: Polona Torkar, for KUD Channel Zero
Concert organisation: Sanja Popov Leban and Janez Leban, for Zveza Mink Tolmin
Graphic design: Boris Kralj
The project is organised by: University of Nova Gorica, Research Centre for Humanities, and School of Humanities
Project partners: Goriški muzej, GO! 2025 Evropska prestolnica kulture Nova Gorica – Gorica, Založba Sophia, Zveza MinK Tolmin, Zavod Radio Študent, Društvo Konstruktivist, Kosovelova soba – Ljudska univerza Sežana, Slovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost, Zavod Delak, Društvo humanistov Goriške, KUD Channel Zero.
The project is supported by: SNG Nova Gorica, Xcenter – center ustvarjalnih praks, Javna agencija za knjigo RS, Riko d.o.o..
The conference is organised within the research programme Historical Interpretations of the 20th Century (P6-0347, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency). Part of the artistic programme is included in the official programme GO! 2025 European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica – Gorizia.
The project Veduta Crumbles is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana’s Department for Culture.
*The conference is part of the program University of Nova Gorica Week. *