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The Galerija BOKS Society is an organisational platform for various projects that relate to contemporary art, especially its critical examination and the conditions of its production. Predominately involving the younger generations of art critics and practitioners, the majority of BOKS's interventions nevertheless address the wider public interested in contemporary artistic practices.

Currently, the main vehicle for this is Šum: Journal for contemporary art criticism and theory. Its biannual publications are complemented by a series of live engagements in the form of lectures, discussions and seminars, through which both theory and practice are scrutinised and developed.

Background

The BOKS Society was established in 2010 when it was more or less meant as a formal entity, through which the Projekt BOKS (initiated in 2009) could be funded. Conceptualised by students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the Faculty of Architecture, this project was to create an autonomous venue for artistic production and presentation. Due to differences in how autonomy was viewed by the academy and the initiators, the project was prematurely terminated and instead resulted in a symposium, entitled "How to think autonomous structures within the University" and organised together with the The Workers and Punks’ University.

Activities

Later, in 2012, BOKS produced the so-called "Reading evenings" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), reading and discussing relevant texts on the issue of history, art and documentation. This was followed by the "Politics of Exhibition", a project that acquainted students with the basic workings of the art system by organising lectures that critically examined its exhibiting and producing politics and conditions.

Another such educational endeavour was called "Youth on the juncture between art and society", which involved meetings and discussions about six select art pieces from Slovene national museums and galleries. Co-funded by the EU, its resulting publication led to the founding of the journal Šum.

Šum

Most of the current BOKS activities now happen under the "brand" of Šum, a journal funded by a consortium of mostly public art institutions, among them, Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Maribor Art Gallery, the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, ŠKUC Gallery, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts and the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Besides publishing texts (accepting those written in English as well), other activities include seminars on theory of contemporary art, on curating of contemporary art, and on analysing contemporary art; live presentations of new journal editions; and other lectures, talks and debates which relate to art, theory and politics.

External links

Galerija Boks Society website (in Slovenian)
Šum journal website
A presentation of Project Boks (pdf)

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-[[Galerija Boks Society]] was established in [[established::2010]], and is operating as a paltform for analysing contemporary art, creating conditions for its practice and making it able to penetrate into the wider society. The main vehicle for this is the journal it publishes, namely the ŠUM Magazine. In the context of Šums activites, there are also seminars, lectures, writing workhsops and other live events
+The [[Galerija BOKS Society]] is an organisational platform for various projects that relate to contemporary art, especially its critical examination and the conditions of its production. Predominately involving the younger generations of art critics and practitioners, the majority of BOKS's interventions nevertheless address the wider public interested in contemporary artistic practices.
-Besides being active on this content-level of production, bOKS also became an experiment in forming alternative financial and organizational support strategies, as its activites are financed by a network of partners from the art world, them being both public institutions as well as various NGOs.
+Currently, the main vehicle for this is ''[[Šum Magazine|Šum: Journal for contemporary art criticism and theory]]''. Its biannual publications are complemented by a series of live engagements in the form of lectures, discussions and seminars, through which both theory and practice are scrutinised and developed.
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 ==Background==
-The magazine set of in [[established::2013]]. Its start goes back further, to 2009, when a group of students from ALUO and FA created a project of an autonomous platform for a gallery space. The gallery space did not turn put due to differences with aluo, but društvo boks was created and niciativa je v sodelovanju z DPU (Delavsko punkersko univerzo) pripravila Simpozij Kako misliti avtonomne sturkture znotraj univerze v Ljubljani, s katerim je poskušala analizirati odpor inštitucije do ideje študentske avtonomije.
+The BOKS Society was established in 2010 when it was more or less meant as a formal entity, through which the Projekt BOKS (initiated in 2009) could be funded. Conceptualised by students of the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design]] and the [[Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana|Faculty of Architecture]], this project was to create an autonomous venue for artistic production and presentation. Due to differences in how autonomy was viewed by the academy and the initiators, the project was prematurely terminated and instead resulted in a symposium, entitled "How to think autonomous structures within the University" and organised together with the [[The Workers and Punks’ University]].
+==Activities==
+Later, in 2012, BOKS produced the so-called "Reading evenings" at the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]], reading and discussing relevant texts on the issue of history, art and documentation. This was followed by the "Politics of Exhibition", a project that acquainted students with the basic workings of the art system by organising lectures that critically examined its exhibiting and producing politics and conditions.
-Later, the Boks Society continued with the so called "reading evenings" at MSUM, reading adn dsicussing relevant textzs for thingling of contemporary art. Itb wqs part of the Living Depo project, an enterpise to focus on the relations between history, memory, art and dcumentation.
+Another such educational endeavour was called "Youth on the juncture between art and society", which involved meetings and discussions about six select art pieces from Slovene national museums and galleries. Co-funded by the EU, its resulting publication led to the founding of the journal ''[[Šum Magazine|Šum]]''.
-Another unrealised project was the politics of exhibtion, which would conclude with an exhibition of student works, which is also its main event. The purpose of the project was to present problems of exhibiting on both practical and theoretical level, with exhibitons, lectures, and a final publication.
+===Šum ===
-This later sort of got realise din a project “Mladi na stičišču med umetnostjo in družbo”, which involved 12 meeting and discussions about the 6 relevant art pieces from national museums and galleries. Texts, ki so nastala kot posledica aktivne participacije udeležencev bodo zbrana v publikaciji, izdaja katere je eden od predvidenih rezultatov projekta. Out of this grew sumn magazine.
+Most of the current BOKS activities now happen under the "brand" of [[Šum Magazine|Šum]], a journal funded by a consortium of mostly public art institutions, among them, [[Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova]], [[City Art Gallery Ljubljana]], [[Maribor Art Gallery]], the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]], [[ŠKUC Gallery]], [[Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts]] and the [[Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art]].
+Besides publishing texts (accepting those written in English as well), other activities include seminars on theory of contemporary art, on curating of contemporary art, and on analysing contemporary art; live presentations of new journal editions; and other lectures, talks and debates which relate to art, theory and politics.
 ==See also==
-* MSUM
-*
+* [[Šum Magazine]]
 == External links ==
-*[Galerija Boks Society website]
+*[https://drustvoboks.wordpress.com/ Galerija Boks Society website] (in Slovenian)
+*[https://sumrevija.si/en/ Šum journal website]
+*[https://drustvoboks.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/boks_publikacija.pdf A presentation of Project Boks] (pdf)
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+[[Category:Visual arts publishers]]
 [[Category:Producers]]
+[[Category:Updated 2020]]

Difference between revisions of "Galerija BOKS Society"

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Contents

Background

Activities

Šum

See also

External links

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