Social Context Channel gathers and shares the work and thoughts of artists, critical thinkers and socially engaged actors who challenge todays's sociopolitical state of things.
Artist
Posted: Dec / 2014
Performance: “Cruising”, at the Social Context conference in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Siniša Labrović is a freelance artist. In 1997 he graduated Croatian literature and language in the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He started to be involved in visual arts in 2000. He has exhibited in collective and individual shows and put on actions, performances, done graffiti and been involved in urban interventions in Croatia and abroad.
Among his performances are “Gloria” (where he recited the weekly women’s magazine Gloria at the most frequented places of Zagreb, Rijeka and Split), “Marking” (an action of drawing a circle with his own urine between the buildings of the parliament, the government and the constitutional court), “Punishment”, “Bandaging the wounded” and the series “Phrases”, “Pissing” and “Leisure”. In 2009 at the 11th Istanbul Biennial he presented the work (book) “Lisansustu Egitim” (“Postgraduate Education“), and in 2012 he represented Croatia on the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Common Ground.
Links:
labrovic.com | cee-art.com | iksftp.com | archdaily.com
Citizens’ Initiative
Interview with Ljubomir Grgurević and Đuro Capor about the initiative “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours).
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on “Perversion of power" at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist / Director of Art Workshop Lazareti
Interview with Slaven Tolj about Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik May 2014
Philosopher
Lecture, "Is Spring the Shortest Season?", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Philosopher & Sociologist
Lecture on "Ignorance and the denial of the possibility of social change" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Ehnologist
Lecture on "Fishermen and ethnologists in the North – the story about how a fishing community tries to avoid being stripped of access to its resources" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Multimedia artist
Performance: "Personal statement", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker
Đuro Capor, from the local organisation “Srđ Je Naš” (Srdj is ours), presenting the initiative and activities of “Srđ Je Naš” at the Social Context conference at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik, May 10 2014
Artist
Performance: "Leisure", at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Tone Olaf Nielsen and Morten Goll / Curator & Artist
Lecture on "Trampoline House: Building a Refugee Justice Space with Tools from Socio-Politically Engaged Art, Migrant Activism, and the Asylum Reform Movement" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Visual artist, educator and activist
Talk on "An urban walk through the district of Nørrebro - the presence of past struggles?" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Institute for architectural research
By Architects Dinko Peračić and Miranda Veljačić
Lecture on "Platforms – cultural centres of 21st century" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Cultural worker and activist
Lecture on "Tactical networking and the Right to the City" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
