The Third
East-Central European Art Forum
Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art. War vs. Revolution
14-15 June 2024
Free Admission
Collegium Novum,
Al. Niepodległości 4
Room C2
June 14, 2024 (Friday)
9.00 – 10.50 / Session 1
Revolution and War in Ukraine
| 9.00-9.15 | Magdalena Radomska, Opening |
| 9.15-10.00 | Lesia Kulchynska, Limits of Witnessing, and the Role of Art During the Networked War |
| 10.00-10.20 | Kinga Lendeczki, Tales of the Donbas – On the role of storytelling in constructing the cultural image of a region |
| 10.20-10.50 | Marta Romankiv, I dreamt of Europe |
Discussion
10.50 – 11.10
Coffee break
11.10 – 11.40
11.40 – 13.25 / Session 2
War in Former Yugoslavia
| 11.40-12.25 | Bojana Pejić, Wartime Sexualized Geographies and After: Waiting for Willy Brandt |
| 12.25-12.45 | Sanja Sekelj, Beyond the Disintegration Paradigm: The Moment of 1989 in Croatia and Yugoslavia |
| 12.45-13.05 | Karla Tepež, The Political Potential of Art: Rethinking Art, Democracy and Community Practice in the (Post-)Yugoslav Context |
| 13.05-13.25 | Iva Leković, Inconvenience of Repeating: Post-1989 Art (History) in Post-Yugoslav Context |
Discussion
13.25 – 13.45
Lunch Break
13.45 – 15.15
15.15 – 17.25 / Session 3
Revolution& War: Dialectical Approaches
| 15.15-16.00 | Boris Buden, War vs. Revolution After 1989 |
| 16.00-16.20 | Lizaveta Stecko, Kalektar.org – Research Platform on Belarusian Contemporary Art |
| 16.20-16.40 | Jana Shostak, Surrealistic Reality. Nation Fluid Experience + Documentary Stand Up About (Still) Basic Needs of Rational Internationalism / Feminism in Art, Activism & Politics |
| 16.40-17.25 | Jan Sowa, 1989: by the People, but against the People. On the Abject of Transformation |
Discussion
17.25 – 17.45
19.00 Exhibition Opening
DOMIE – KURS TUHA
Święty Marcin 51A
June 15, 2024 (Saturday)
9.00 – 11.15 / Session 4
War over Legacy of Socialism
| 9.00-9.45 | Boris Groys, Post-Socialist vs. Post-Modern Condition: Contested Legacy of the Avant-Garde |
| 9.45-10.05 | Irina Botea Bucan, Understanding 1989 through the Institutional Model of Cultural Houses in Romania and the Figure of the Amateur |
| 10.05-10.25 | Emily Finkelstein, On the Threshold: East German Public Art Platforms after East Germany |
| 10.25-10.45 | Júliusz Huth, Hungarian Salon – The Crisis of Artists’ Associations and Debates around Salon-Type Exhibitions in Post-Socialist Hungary |
| 10.45-11.15 | Caterina Preda, The Contrasting Meanings of 1989 in Political Art: between “the End of the World” and Liberation from the Communist Camp |
Discussion
11.15 – 11.35
Coffee break
11.35 – 11.50
11.50 – 14.20 / Session 5
War on Revolution: Copyrighs for Revolution
| 11.50-12.35 | Edit András, The Time of Art History and the “Personal Time” of the Art Historian |
| 12.35-12.55 | Máté Csanda, Whose battle? And whose „Inner Truth“? And generally: who is speaking? The rumbling of the archives – Little Warsaw: The Battle of Inner Truth (2011) |
| 12.55-13.15 | Cristina Stoenescu, Witnessing the Fall. The 1989 Romanian Revolution in Artistic Practices Today |
| 13.15-13.35 | Valentina Bonizzi, Notes And Caldendars Of Albanian Art Histories |
| 13.35-14.20 | Anna Markowska, Damp Guerilla Warfare and the Wet Revolution. A History of Political Transformation Shaped by the Aquatic Imaginarium |
Discussion
14.20 – 14.40
Lunch Break
14.40 – 15.45
15.45 – 16.55 / Session 6
Class War
| 15.45-16.15 | Magdalena Radomska, Marx on 1989. Art and Class Struggle in Post-Communist Europe |
| 16.15-16.35 | Kristóf Nagy, The Socialist Origins of the Post-Socialist Cultural Infrastructure: Cultural Economists and Late-Socialist Market Reforms |
| 16.35-16.55 | Yunjing Pan, From Pretty Girls (1987) to Pretty Woman (1990): Images of Women at Work in the Transition from Late Socialism to Capitalist Hegemony |
Discussion
16.55 – 17.15
Exhibition Tour
GaMA (Municipal Gallery Arsenał) – In the Absence of the State. Luz María Sánchez
The conference will be held in English