Public Moments WCSCD Educational program 2025/2026 at SKUP

For the Iteration of WCSCD educational program 2025/2026 we are pleased to announce following public moments in formats of public lectures, screenings and other forms of gathering. The public moments are organized  in collaboration with SKUP and Sok Cooperative.

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Meet the program participants

Time: September 5th 19:00

Venue: SKUP, Novi Sad, Bulevar Despota Stefana 5,

Meet program participants through public sharing

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Lecture by Nina Montmann

Decentring the Museum. Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial Legacies

Time: September 10th , 2025, 19:00

Venue: SKUP Novi Sad

 

Nina Montmann lecture is taking point of departure of her recently published book Decentering the Museum: Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial legacy. Montmann in the book  acknowledges transition processes towards decolonization, de-elitiziation,  giving emphasis on importance of moving away from collection, exhibition policies that are based on European colonial legacy of institutional rituals that will be also addressed at the lecture.

 

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Lecture by Marina Christodoulidou

Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Placemaking

Time September 19th  2025, 19:00

Venue: SKUP Novi Sad

 

Delving into pressing themes surrounding Land —particularly its ownership and use— de Appel takes curatorial practice as a means of commoning. Curatorial projects referenced during the talk engage with co-ownership, both as a structure and a concept, by learning from the diverse experiences, practices, and perspectives of/with lumbung. It further questions how crises of land and housing engage with an art institution, and asks: how could we co-own a place? How might an art institution practice co-ownership, both practically and poetically? In principle, de Appel anchors its inquiries in curatorial work: How can we curate exhibitions today in relation to concerns about land and urban crises? How might art institutions contribute to social housing movements and struggle against land grabbing and individual ownership?

 

The public lecture by Marina Christoulidou is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade.

 

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Lecture by Toby Upson

A practice of Artwriting

Time October 3d, 2025, 19:00

Venue: SKUP Novi Sad

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Folding A.V. Marraccini's approach to criticism into Anne Carson’s notion of desire as well as Bruce Hainley’s practice, Toby Upson lecture will explore 'commensal' approaches to writing. Rather than a mode of writing 'about' a thing, 'writing to' or 'with' a thing, this approach recognises the innate agency of a thing, asking a writer to enter into a relationship with it and to write that space.