FOREST ENCOUNTERS – SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION
SAVE-THE-DATE: 30. 11.–1. 12. 2023, Ljubljana
Within the framework of the European cooperation project Forest Encounters – the leading partner of which is the Igor Zabel Association – we are organizing an international symposium and exhibition by Polonca Lovšin in Ljubljana.
SYMPOSIUM
1. 12. 2023, MGLC Švicarija, Pod turnom 4, Ljubljana
Speakers: Giovanni Aloi, Agata A. Konczal, Ana Kučan, Teo Hrvoje Oršanič, Maja Simoneti, Borbála Soós
The Forest Encounters symposium aims to develop a multifaceted understanding of diverse values, meanings, challenges, and perspectives related to forest. Bringing together the disciplines of art, forestry, and the humanities, the symposium approaches the forest as a site where we can explore ecology but also as a site of diverse and often conflictual policies, and social, cultural, and economic practices.
The symposium acknowledges both the human and other-than-human perspectives, the rights of humans to nature and the rights of nature, and discusses diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the questions: What and how can we learn with and through the forest? How to meet the challenges of contemporary forest management? What forest disaster narratives tell us about modern society? What meanings are attached to the forest as a cultural landscape? How has artistic engagement with the forest changed over time? What kind of forest do we wish for and need for the future? What do we need to make that happen?
FOREST IN WOMEN'S HANDS AND MUSHROOMS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Exhibition by Polonca Lovšin
Opening: 30. 11. 2023, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana
Part of the symposium programme is also the opening of the exhibition by artist and architect Polonca Lovšin, at the Slovenian Forestry Institute in Ljubljana.
The symposium is organized by the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory in collaboration with Mateja Kurir and Polonca Lovšin, and with the support of the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC Švicarija).
Affiliated partners for the exhibition: Slovenian Forestry Institute and KUD Obrat
Forest Encounters project partners: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Ljubljana (lead partner); Institute of Spatial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology; and OUT OF SIGHT, Antwerp
Creative Europe Programme – European Cooperation Project
Co-funded by the European Union, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia.