Technische Universität Berlin, June 30, 2015

Abschlussworkshop Künstlermobilität in Mittel- und Osteuropa 1500-1900 / Closing meeting Artistic Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe 1500-1900

30.06.2015
Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik
TU Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 150/152 10623 Berlin

Raum / Room A 083
16:00 - Begrüßung / Welcome
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Lipińska & Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
16:15 - Science Slam
Presentation of the research outcomes by international scholars: Katrin Dyballa, Joanna Izabela Formella, Mara-Lisa Kinne, Galina Mardilovich, Adam Németh, Guillaume Nicoud, Maria Nitka, Agnieszka Patała, Masza Sitek, Joanna Szechlicka and Jan Zachriáš
17:15 - Diskussion / Discussion

Raum / Room A 060
18:15 - Hauptvortrag / Keynote lecture
Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer
(IMIS- Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien, Universität Osnabrück)
Migrationsregime: Idee, Konzept und Programm

Free-entrance, no registration necessary, but please note that the number of places is limited.

Poznań (Posen), Polen, 07. - 10.10.2015

Re-Konstruktionen. Stadt, Raum, Museum, Objekt/Re-Konstrukcje. Miasto, przestrzeń, muzeum, przedmiot

Poznań/Posen, 07.-10.10.2015

1. Tagung des Arbeitskreises deutscher und polnischer Kunsthistoriker und Denkmalpfleger, Poznań/Posen 07.-10.Oktober 2015, veranstaltet vom Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Adam-Mickiewicz Universität Posen und Kulturzentrum “Zamek” in Posen - 23 konferencja Grupy Roboczej niemieckich i polskich historyków sztuki i konserwatorów, Poznań, 7-10 października 2015, organizowana przez Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu oraz Centrum Kultury “Zamek” w Poznaniu

Ort/Miejsce: Kulturzentrum “Zamek”/Centrum Kultury “Zamek”, ul. Św. Marcin 80/82 Posen/Poznań, Kaminsaal/Sala Kominkowa

Kontakt: rekonstrukcje_poznan2015@amu.edu.pl

In den letzten Jahren haben in Deutschland und in Polen ebenso wie in anderen mitteleuropäischen Ländern Rekonstruktionsvorhaben materieller und virtueller Art Konjunktur, die auf einem Bedürfnis nach Vergegenwärtigung der Vergangenheit basieren. Dies betrifft nicht nur ausgewählte, längst nicht mehr existierende Einzelobjekte, sondern auch ganze Bauensembles und Stadträume. Vergleichbare Prozesse lassen sich im Bereich der Museumsgestaltung beobachten, bei der Inszenierung von Dauerausstellungen ebenso wie bei Wechselausstellungen oder einzelnen Exponaten. Die seit den 1990er Jahren intensiv geführten Diskurse um historisches Gedächtnis und Identität scheinen die Domäne der Ideen und intellektuellen Konzepte zu verlassen und materielle Formen anzunehmen. Die Tagung will die Aussagekraft und die Wirkung von Rekonstruktionen analysieren, die als Konstruktionen von Vergangenheit zugleich Indikatoren gesellschaftlicher, politischer und wirtschaftlicher Konjunkturen der Gegenwart sind.

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The full conference program can be downloaded at http://aihr.uva.nl/news-and-events/content/events/2015/06/post-soviet.html

Two-day conference organized by Stephen Amico and Sudha Rajagopalan

Questions regarding time and temporality have occupied a central position in relation to both lived experiences and academic explorations of Soviet and post-Soviet spaces – indeed, the very addition of the prefix, the “post-” suggests the indispensability of the temporal when seeking to illuminate the sociocultural/sociopolitical. Scholars from diverse disciplinary locations (including Epstein, Yurchak, Boym, and Oushakine, inter alia) have shown the myriad ways that, for example, memory, nostalgia, and/or desire have been implicated in creations of a pre-Revolutionary past or a utopian Soviet future, such constructions being instrumental in the formations of identities, cultural narratives, or localities. In regards to this last, moreover, some (Clowes; Dobrenko and Naiman) have called for attention to dynamics of spatiality, in addition to those of temporality, in relation to the enterprise of “mapping” the cultural terrain of the [post-] Soviet.

And yet the cultural-spatiotemporal location which engendered the “post-” has altered radically over the past two-plus decades, the ensuing landscape often marked by an array of disparate events and phenomena related to the changes in media and popular culture: Tweets circulating among and emanating from the protesters at Euromaidan or in Moscow; Pussy Riot’s various actions posted to YouTube, and the “media tour” of Tolokonnikova and Alekhina upon release from prison; Russian legislation banning advertising on pay-television channels, and its effect on non-state-owned entities such as Telekanal Dozhd; US/EU popular musics/videos/films ubiquitous on radio stations, television, and the internet, and now widely available via numerous download sites or torrents; the broad popularity of Russian detektivy by authors such as Akunin and Marinina, and their wide availability, as with other media, online; Russia’s anti-“gay propaganda” law, and the appearance of internet-based support group for LGBT children/teens, Deti 404; and numerous others. Our intent in this conference, however, is not to analyze such phenomena in a cultural context, but to foreground the cultural context itself – the post-post – via the phenomena. Understanding, of course, the need for historicizing cultural practice and product, our guiding question is: how can we, via media and popular culture, theorize geopolitical and geocultural locations that can no longer be adequately defined by recourse to a predecessor? What is the successor to the “post-Soviet”?

Registration: nica-fgw@uva.nl

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Yngvar B. Steinholt, Associate Professor, Tromsø University, Institute of Culture and Literature, Norway
Dr. Steinholt is co-author of Punk in Russia: Cultural Mutation from the “Useless” to the “Moronic” (Routledge 2014), and has published extensively on popular music in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia. His current research interests include contemporary Russian art (and) activism, noise studies, and sound in literature.

Conference Organizers:
Stephen Amico, Assistant Professor, Departments of Music and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Sudha Rajagopalan, Assistant Professor, Departments of East European Studies and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

post presents: The Artist as Activist

Artists can be activists but can art be activism? Coco Fusco, Oleksiy Radynski, and Ram Rahman—artists who have all engaged with activist practices—will discuss relations between art and politics in Cuba, Ukraine, and India.

Thursday, June 4
6:30 p.m.
The MoMA Library
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
4 West 54 Street (between Fifth and Sixth avenues)
New York, NY 10019

Admission is free with your RSVP. However, space is limited and seating will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early to be guaranteed a seat. RSVP to contact_c-map@moma.org

Ram Rahman is a photojournalist, artist, curator, designer, and activist, and co-founder of the Sahmat Collective. Sahmat is an acronym for the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust and the Hindi word for “in agreement.” The Sahmat Collective was founded in 1989 in response to the murder of the political activist, actor, playwright, and poet Safdar Hashmi, during one of his street theater performances. The collective is a platform for exchanging ideas and voicing resistance.

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His latest films include Incident in the Museum and Integration. Radynski is a member of Visual Culture Research Center, an initiative for art, knowledge, and politics founded in Kyiv in 2008. Since 2011, he has been an editor of the Ukrainian edition of Political Critique magazine. His texts have recently been published in e-flux journal and in the books Soviet Modernism 1955–1991: Unknown Stories; Post-Post-Soviet?: Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of Decade; and Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-Garde.

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who combines performance and media in a variety of formats. Her work has been included in various biennials, including the current Venice Biennale, and has been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Liverpool, The Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, among others. Fusco is the author of English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas, The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings, and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators. She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. She is currently working on a new book entitled Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba.

post is an online platform developed by The Museum of Modern Art, and managed with an international network of partners and contributors. It was launched in February 2013 with the aim of publishing research resources and artistic projects that engage with narratives falling outside art history’s familiar accounts. Broadening the scope of MoMA’s collection and exhibitions, post explores experimental practices in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

post grows out of Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a cross-departmental research program begun in 2009 at MoMA to facilitate a museum-wide study that reflects the multiplicity of modernities and histories of contemporary and modern art.

Warsaw, Poland, June 10 - 12, 2015
Registration deadline: Jun 1, 2015

International and Interdisciplinary Conference ‘Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the 14th and 16th Centuries’

Inaugural Lecture:
Professor Andrew MORRALL, The Bard Graduate Center, New York
June 10th, 6.00 pm
University of Warsaw, the Old BUW, room 105,Krakowskie Przedmieście 24/28

Invited Speakers:

Peter DENT (University of Bristol)
Wim FRANÇOIS (KU Leuven)
Elina GERTSMAN (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)
Jacqueline JUNG (Yale University)
Robert MANIURA (Birkbeck, University of London)
Miri RUBIN (Queen Mary University of London)
Kathryn RUDY (University of St Andrews)

This conference is organised by the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw and the National Museum in Warsaw and is generously funded by the Polish National Science Centre.

The project stems from the theory of ‘agency of things’ created in the last decade of the twentieth century. The theory marks the departure from the ‘linguistic turn’ and resultant postmodern concepts, towards the search of functional agency of things and other entities shaping human environment.
This approach, hitherto, has been applied solely to purely theoretical studies or in relation to works of modern and contemporary art. The project aims to fill this scientific lacuna and apply the theory of ‘agency of things’ to the artworks created between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

For information and program: http://www.agencyofthings.uw.edu.pl/conference.html

There is no registration fee but please email the organisers before 1st of June at agencyofthings@uw.edu.pl if you wish to attend so that we can prepare a name tag for you.

RUSSIAN ART: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS
Russian Art and Culture Group, Second Graduate Workshop
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Conference Room, Research IV, June 4–5, 2015
Registration deadline: Jun 2, 2015; Attendance Fee: €15

FOR THE COMPLETE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, SEE FULL POST

International Conference
DISCOVERING DALMATIA: Dalmatia in 18th and 19th century travelogues, pictures and photographs
Organized by Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fiskovic Split
21st-23rd May 2015
Ethnographic Museum, Severova 1, Split

The conference stem from the research project Dalmatia – a destination of the European Grand Tour in the 18th and the 19th century (2014-2017) of the Institute of Art History, under the aegis of the Croatian Science Foundation.

FOR THE COMPLETE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, SEE FULL POST

http://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/1002/international-conference

Concept: Zdenka Badovinac and Eda Čufer

Keynote speeker: Boris Groys

Conference participants: Zdenka Badovinac, Barbara Borčić, Eda Čufer, Mladen Dolar, Charles Esche, Anthony Gardner, Marina Gržinić and Jasmina Založnik, Lev Kreft, Dejan Kršić, Tomaž Mastnak, Rastko Močnik, Alexei Monroe, Daniel Ricardo Quiles, Igor Vidmar, Alexei Yurchak

The conference NSK from Kapital to Capital ? Neue Slowenische Kunst, an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia will try to shed light on the legacy and present-day significance of the NSK collective through a series of talks and panel discussions, organised around the following topics: From Kapital to Capital, NSK and the Legacy of Historical Avant-gardes, What Was the Alternative - the Relationship between NSK and the Alternative Culture of the 1980s, Art History and Institutional Critique in the Light of Geopolitical Relations, Capitalism and the State.

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Vilnius, Contemporary Art Centre, May 21 - 22, 2015

Institute of Art Research at Vilnius Academy of Arts invites to the international conference “The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place”

Date and venue: May 21–22, 2015, CAC Reading Room and Cinema Hall, Vokieciu str. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania

All presentations in CAC Reading Room are simultaneously interpreted into English or Lithuanian

Thursday, May 21, 2015

CAC Reading Room

9.15–9.45 Registration
9.45 –10.00 Introduction

I session. Moderated by dr. Jolita Liskeviciene

10.00–10.30 dr. (hp) Ruta Janoniene
The One Created before the World: The Iconography of Paintings Depicting the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 17th Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania
10.30–11.00 Lijana Birskyte-Klimiene
Miraculous Bodies of Saints: The Case of Batakiai St Anne Sculpture
11.00–11.30 dr. Tojana Raciunaite
Heterotopian Co-presence of Saints and Sinners in the “Space” of the16–17th Century Painting: A Case of “The Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary” in All Saints Church, Vilnius

11.30–12.00 Coffee break

II session. Moderated by Lijana Birskyte-Klimiene

12.00–12.30 Elza Tantcheva
All Roads Lead to Rome, or Do They? Representation of the Body in the 17th Century Nave Decoration of the Church of St Atanass in Arbanassi, Bulgaria
12.30–13.00 dr. Edina Eszenyi
Angels as the Manus Dei: Evidence in Art and Angelology
13.00–13.30 Juliane Gatomski
“The Supper at Emmaus” by Jan Steen. A Discourse on the Relevance of the Physical Body of Christ for the Christian Faith

13.30–15.00 Lunch

III session. Moderated by Dovile Tumpyte

15.00–15.30 dr. Jonas Ciurlionis
The Dichotomy of Body/Space and Soul/Time in Classical Metaphysics
15.30–16.00 dr. Arturas Tereskinas
Incarcerated Bodies in the Affective Economy of Disappointment
16.00–16.30 dr. Gintaute Zemaityte
On Disembodied Body, or In What Sense Virtual Reality is Real?
16.30–17.00 Magdalena Lange
Cells and Artists Capable of Restoring Fragments of Bodies: Biology in New Artistic Dimension

CAC Cinema Hall

Artist Talks I
Not interpreted

15.00–16.00 Julijonas Urbonas
Necrophilic Design and the Art of Placebo (EN)
16.00–17.00 Zygimantas Augustinas
To Alter One’s Skull (LT)

17.00–17.30 Coffee break

17.30–18.30 Visit to Zilvinas Landzbergas’ show “Crown Off”, guided by the artist (CAC)

Friday, May 22, 2015

CAC Reading Room

V session. Moderated by dr. Gintaute Zemaityte

10.00–10.30 dr. Rasa Balockaite
The Body as a Signifier of Ideology in the Novel “Roses are Red” by Alfonsas Bieliauskas (1959)
10.30–11.00 Ulrike Gerhardt
Imagining the Absence. The Body as a Mnemonic Topography in Contemporary Art from a Post-socialist Context
11.00–11.30 Giedrius Gulbinas
Social Critique and a Shift of the Notion of the Body in Lithuanian Contemporary Art
11.30–12.00 Migle Anusauskaite
Body that Betrays: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Crime Fiction

12.00–12.30 Coffee break

VI session. Moderated by dr. Ausra Trakselyte

12.30–13.00 dr. Linda Schädler
Where Are We? In What Time Are We? The Place of the Spectator in James Coleman’s “Box (AHHARETURNABOUT)” (1977)
13.00–13.30 Dovile Tumpyte
Embodied Mind-specific Art, or When a Perceiver Becomes the Medium
13.30–14.00 dr. Jörg Scheller
The Art of Transcendence in Bodybuilding by the Examples of Eugen Sandow, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Lisa Lyon

14.00–15.30 Lunch

VII session. Moderated by dr. Ausra Trakselyte

15.30–16.00 Lorenza Gay
Gold, Crimson and Ivory: The Ideal of Female Beauty and its Material Culture in the 16th Century Italy and France
16.00–16.30 Indre Uzuotaite
The Body in the Mirror – “Not Here, Not There, and Right Now”
16.30–17.00 Ieva Burbaite
The Naked Body in Art and Society of the 1920–30s Lithuania: Images of Olga Svede-Dubeneckiene-Kalpokiene (1891–1967)

CAC Cinema Hall

Artists Talks II
Not interpreted

15.30–16.00 dr. Mary O’Neill, dr. Angela Bartram
Here and There: Two Works, Ten Countries (EN)
16.00–16.30 Adomas Danusevicius
Camouflage Masculinity (EN)
16.30–17.00 Jurate Jarulyte
The Body as Subjective Experience: Bodily Integrity and Vulnerability in Art Practice (LT)

For additional information please email Ausra Trakselyte or Gintaute Zemaityte

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b2f475f23451c4712fd88513d/files/Port_of_Entry_May_8_Program.pdf

This workshop will be an occasion for reflection on the work of showcasing abroad cultural production from Poland and the surrounding areas of East Central Europe. Panel participants involved and invested in carrying abroad art, literature and film will convene to discuss the choices and constraints that shape their activities. We will take in a wide view of the protocols that both facilitate and govern the export of contemporary culture to international audiences and markets.

How do institutional pipelines of support and distribution—such as film festival circuits and EU-funding—format and refashion cultural production from East Central Europe? How do biennials, art fairs and exhibitions function as points of access as well as exclusion? How do individuals work within and against their institutional limits? What are the conceptual taxes levied on the export of culture?

For the full workshop program, follow the link above.