Dr.
Marina Grzinic, philosopher, artist and theoretician. She works
in Ljubljana and Vienna. Grzinic is Professor at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, Post Conceptual Art
Practices. She is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the
ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy
of Science and Art) in Ljubljana. She also works as freelance media
theorist, art critic and curator.
Marina Grzinic has been involved with video art since 1982. In
collaboration
with Aina Smid, Grzinic produced more than 40 video art projects,
a short
film, numerous video and media installations, several websites and
an
interactive CD-ROM (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany).
http://www.grzinic-smid.si/
Grzinic most recent books are:
Marina Grzinic, Situated Contemporary Art Practices, Art, Theory
and
Activism from (the East of) Europe, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana and
Revolver,
Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
Marina Grzinic, Une fiction reconstruite. Europe de l'Est, post-socialisme
et rétro-avant-garde [Fiction Reconstructed. Eastern
Europe, Postsocialism
and Retro-avantgarde], L'Harmattan, Paris, 2005.
Marina Grzinic, Avant-garde and Politics: The Eastern European
Paradigm and
the War in the Balkans, Beogradski krug, Belgrade, Serbia and Monte
Negro,
2005.
Marina Grzinic, Aesthetics of Cyberspace and the Effects of
De-realisation,
Multimedijalni institut mi2 - MaMa Zagreb, Croatia and Kosnica -
centar za
komunikaciju i kulturu, Sarajevo, Bih, 2005.
On April 11, 7:00 p.m. at apexart: Lecture by Marina Grzinic "Salon
de Fleurus in a New York SoHo Apartment: From Fiction to Virtuality"
Marina
Grzinic presented her recent project and talked about the artistic and
philosophical implications of strategies of art and culture under
post-socialism, about the tyranny of the copy and the virtual reality
premises of such projects for capitalism, with references to Alain
Badiou, Joan Copjec, and Sade.
Salon de Fleurus re-constructs one of the most significant collections
of modern art from the turn of the previous century, created in
1906-1907 by the American author and literary critic Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946), with the help of her brother Leo Stein, in their Paris
apartment at 27, rue de Fleurus. Open to the public since 1992,
Salon de Fleurus is an art projectinstallation, reconstruction,
recollectionsituated in a private New York apartment that
has attracted an impressive number of visitors, from collectors
and art professionals to artists and passersby.
The author(s) of the Salon de Fleurus remain(s) anonymous,
although it is always possible to meet, as a doorman and a guide/narrator
of the project, Goran Djordjevic, former artist and physicist, who
left Belgrade for New York in the beginning of the 1990s. Since
1985 Djordjevic has assisted in the realization and presentation
of group projects such as "The Last Futurist Exhibition by
Kasimir Malevich," "Walter Benjamin's Lecture: Mondrian
1963-1996," and "The International Exhibition of Modern
Art (Armory Show)."
Ms. Grzinic was recommended by Lawrence Rinder.
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