The Hellenic Centre for Photography (HCP) invites submissions for the Athens Photo Festival 2012. HCP accepts proposals from established or emerging artists, galleries, curators and organizations world-wide, in all areas of contemporary photography practice and forms, ranging from art and documentary photography to photographic installations, film and video.

Childhood Pattern (Official Trailer) is the first part of the video project 'Childhood Pattern' by graffiti provocateur The Miha Artnak from Ljubljana (SLO). Video production by Tilen Sepic. Mix by Felis Catus.

The Chelsea Space gallery in London will host from 20 March to 21 April 2012 a retrospective of the radical Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art) in the years 1984-1992. The exhibition will feature photos, video documentation and other material linked to the NSK’s appearance in the UK.

Confronting the Balkans: Post-Socialism, Post-Modernism and Contemporary Art Practice in South Eastern Europe since 1968. Maria Todorova’s Imagining the Balkans (OUP, 1997) sought to unpick the implications of the word Balkans, understanding and negating its toxic connotations. Whilst this canonical text has gained traction in Slavonic and Eastern European studies, the implications of the book for how art from the Balkan region can be understood, and discussed, have yet to be worked through.