Museum of Contemporary Art. He studied art history, ethnology and fine art at the School of Humanities, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the founder and director of the P. Museum of Contemporary Art, a virtual critical institution, established in E Museum is a virtual museum and was initiated in , at a time when physical sites in the Balkans were highly contested.
You proposed something that happens without proper physicality. What was the concept behind this move? Museum as a notional, parallel art institution, a mobile spiritual entity that establishes specific interrelationships among a variety of subjects, societies, institutions, social groups and symbolic networks. The P. Its operations are not based primarily on the production of objects, but on the creation of situations and the cultivation of relationships.
Our early interventions in museums raised questions about order and knowledge: How are they produced and structured? How are they possessed, transmitted, and used? It can be described as a subtle deconstruction of the horizons of the everyday and a relentless challenging of the social systems used to establish centralising forces, dominance, and power in everyday life, art and society.
We remix, appropriate, redirect and confound recent states and orders. Some interventions have questioned the order and hierarchy of institutions; others, their ideologies and the hidden logic of their collections. An example: in a cultural institution in Ljubljana which was temporary declared a P. Museum site we prepared - in addition to an exhibition - an official meeting with the entire staff in order to introduce me as their new director.
They were also informed that for the next month they would have to follow new rules and orders, for they were now employees of P. How did this engagement with marginalised communities come about?
