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Although we have documented in this summary some of the
most important conclusions of the European report it is not
difficult to perceive how it was possible for the mayor and
municipal administration to develop their authoritarian methods
and to apply them to the project. The position of the alternative
groups was exaggerated. They were “demonised” and their
portrayal as a real threat to the project was nothing more than a
carnivalesque game. The European Report comments that
independent Slovenia succeeded in the nineties in completely
paralysing the “alternative culture” that had enjoyed such a
fruitful existence in the eighties.
In this respect it is possible to state that such drastic general
(thah such drastic general tendencis) tendencies in the
Slovenian cultural policy provided a fruitful terrain for the
complete obstruction of the first conceived phase of The
European Cultural Month – Ljubljana 97 (from the 1st of March
1995 to the 1st of March 1996).
Another tendency or direction was individuated by the
experts in the cultural and artistic strategies supported by the
Slovenian Ministry of Culture. A turn towards the direction of
traditional art and culture or what is understood as the high
European humanistic tradition in art and culture. For Slovenia this
represents a radical turning point. This tendency – is radically
different from the flourishing modern and experimental art and
cultural productions in Slovenia of the eighties.
According to the European report, the imaginary humanist
art tradition is the way in which art and culture (i.e. against
modern and experimental production) is redirect in Slovenia.
This tendency is clearly reflected also in the programme peaks
of the European Cultural Month – Ljubljana 97 conceived after
the 1st of March 1996, i.e. after the obstruction of the first phase
of the project.
This is why articles analysing the European Cultural Month –
Ljubljana 97, with reference to the works by Homi Bhabha,
Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou, Jelica [umi~-Riha etc., recognise
that the European Cultural Month – Ljubljana 97 is of strategical,
cultural and theoretical importance. Such writings seek to foster
the development of critical readings of the general principles of
the Slovenian cultural policy and also to encourage the
development of new perspectives, options and hypothesis for
progressive cultural and artistic strategies in a future Slovenia.
EMK – LJUBLJANA 97