everything you always wanted to know about SCCA but were afraid to ask
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01: SCCA works in specific post-war conditions, where the lack of a system of culture and arts, art history studies, education in new media, contemporary arts magazines and information on new developments in art must be taken into account. In a country going through the difficult process of economic and social reconstruction and transition, the principle tasks and missions of the SCCA-Sarajevo are to keep contemporary non-commercial art alive (by giving logistic, material and professional support) and to involve it competitively in the international arts scene. |
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02:a SCCA, acting globally and locally, focuses its activities on the most urgent needs:  Bridging the
information gap and connecting the center with the periphery-internationalizing
local arts and promoting international arts in Bosnia and
Herzegovina-by creating an up-to-date documentation-information center
(artist files, video documentation, web site, library), enabling
contact with the world and the exchange of information
and establishing live two-way communication |
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02:b Creating
a new artistic scene with new artistic production - alternative
and complementary work launched by posing new questions and
initiating projects that will gather and steer dispersed creative
energy and give financial and organizational support to those
individuals and groups who are not well-known in the local environment
and not considered "artists" according to local criteria (multimedia
art, public art, site-specific art, environmental art); |
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02:c Education
in fields that are not covered in existing academic programs - education
of students in the Fine Arts and other academies in the field
of video and the Internet is possible through the multimedia
laboratory pro.ba, and education
in the fields of museology, curatorship, art criticism
and arts management will be accomplished through workshops.
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03:a After three years of work, the results are already greater than expected. We have already influenced the local the arts scene to a great degree: by distributing donations for the realization of exhibitions and catalogues, by providing artists with professional services, such the writing and translation of biographies and international correspondence, and by processing and collecting photographs, slides and other documentation. SCCA-Sarajevo has become an irreplaceable factor in the international exchange in the area of visual and new media. |
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03:b Professional standards and artistic life have been raised to a higher level and the artist scene has been altered with the ideas of the youngest "war" generation of artists. The lack of a gallery space was turned into an advantage: SCCA-Sarajevo acted as a centre d'art mobile. Most projects, such as the annual exhibition, were realized in open spaces of the city. New spaces were created for the gathering of artists and a new audience who had not entered galleries and museums before. |
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03:c With new production and the accompanying educational programs, SCCA-Sarajevo became an active player and at the same time a corrective in local cultural life. In 1998, SCCA-Sarajevo created a technical base for starting the multimedia laboratory pro.ba, in which 20 artists' works were produced on the basis of public competitions held by the center. These works were presented in the Fourth Sarajevo Film Festival in the framework of the program "Made in Bosnia" as well as in many international festivals, museums and galleries. |
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