The Second
East-Central European Art Forum
Equal and Poor: A comparative perspective on Art in Communist Europe and the Global South in the long 1970s
17-18 March 2023
Free Admission
March 17, 2023 (Friday)
9.00 – 11.00 / Session 1
Equality of Peripheries? Art during dictatorship
Chair: Emese Kürti
| 9.00-9.15 | Magdalena Radomska, Opening |
| 9.15-10.00 | Caterina Preda, Equal, but Poor: (Dis)Connections and Parallel Forms of Aesthetic Resistance to the Political in Eastern Europe and South America in the 1970s-1980 |
| 10.00-10.20 | Katerina Valdivia Bruch, A Cultural Guerrilla Warfare? The Experimental Art Scene in Lima During Velasco Alvarado’s Administration (1968-1975) |
| 10.20-10.40 | Słaboń Natalia, Peripheral Collaborations. Contacts of Ryszard Stanisławski and the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź with South and Latin America during 1960s and 1970s |
| 10.40-11.00 | Darina Zavadilová, Raúl Martínez and his “Cuban theatre”. Cultural cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Cuba |
Coffee break
11.00 – 11.15
11.15 – 12.15 / Session 2
Resilient Art & Bureaucratization
Chair: Zsuzsa László
| 11.15-11.35 | Alina Șerban, A Man of Crowd Resilient Practices, Imaginary Turns and the Death of the Author |
| 11.35-11.55 | Ksenija Orelj, The Paradox of Art as Work – Between the Artists’ and Museum’s Imagination of the Work Ethic in the Age of Bureaucratization |
| 11.55-12.15 | Wilczyńska Karolina, Documentality and the Aesthetic of Administration in East-Central European Art |
Discussion
12.15 – 12.45
Lunch Break
12.45 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.00 / Session 3
NETworking Equality and Poverty
| 14.00-14.15 | Magdalena Radomska, Opening part 2 |
| 14.15-15.00 | Jarosław Kozłowski, NET & Work – Interviewed by Katarzyna Cytlak & Magdalena Radomska |
Coffee break
15.00-15.15
15.15 – 16.40 / Session 4
Comparative Perspective & Solidarity
Chair: Magdalena Radomska
| 15.15-15.35 | Daniel Grúň, Ping-Pong Masks. Politics of Language Games by Lenora de Barros and Július Koller |
| 15.35-15.55 | Dorota Jagoda Michalska, The Afterlives of Serfdom: Teresa Murak and New Genealogies of Land Art in Socialist Poland |
| 15.55-16.40 | Cristina Freire, Reversed Net From South-East active solidarity in the 1970s to current dilemmas |
Discussion
16.40 – 17.10
March 18, 2023 (Saturday)
9.00 – 10.25 / Session 5
Peripheries of the World – unite!
Chair: Katarzyna Cytlak
| 9.00-9.45 | Klara Kemp-Welch, Teaching and Learning Eastern European and Latin American Art Together |
| 9.45-10.05 | Irina Genova, Graphic Images and Practices – Exchange between Bulgaria and Latin America in the 1960s and Early 1970s. Politically Engaged / Autonomous Art |
| 10.05-10.25 | Magdalena Radomska, Poverty and Class Consciousness – Beyond Superstructural Analysis of Art in East-Central Europe and Global South |
Coffee break
10.25 – 10.40
10.40 – 11.40 / Session 6
Exhibiting South East
Chair: Andrea Bátorová
| 10.40-11.00 | Gabriela Świtek, The “Invisible” Global South: A Case Study of – the 1970s East-Central European Exhibitions’ Geography |
| 11.00-11.20 | Rashmi Viswanathan, India’s Triennale of 1968 |
| 11.20-11.40 | Luiza Kempińska, Narratives on NET |
Discussion
11.40 – 12.10
Lunch Break
12.10 – 13.25
13.25 – 14.25 / Session 7
Correspondences & Peripheral Connections
Chair: Dávid Fehér
| 13.25-13.45 | Katarzyna Cytlak, Beyond Compare: Horacio Zabala vs Josef Jankovič or Could East European Art be Decolonial? |
| 13.45-14.05 | Pablo Santa Olalla, Videopost (1977): a Transnational Video Art Project Organised Through the Solidarity of Mail-Art Networks |
| 14.05-14.25 | Jana Písaříková, Gallery in a Post Box |
Coffee break
14.25 – 14.40
14.40 – 16.25 / Session 8
Global South & Beyond
Chair: Pavlína Morganová
| 14.40-15.00 | Inga Lace, Long-distance Friendships: Unwritten Stories From The Baltics and Global South |
| 15.00-15.20 | Rado Ištok, The Last Modern Art Exhibition in the 1970s Czechoslovakia? Contemporary Egyptian Art (1971) at Prague City Gallery |
| 15.20-15.40 | Radek Przedpełski, Crystalist Conceptualism in Sudan and Polish Peoples’ Republic |
| 15.40-16.25 | Walter Mignolo, Gnoseology, Ars and Aesthesis: One Path of Delinking from Western Epistemology, Art and Aesthetics |
Closing discussion
16.25 – 16.55
The conference will be held in English
Organizers:
Magdalena Radomska: Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research On East-Central European Art (Art Sciences Department, UAM)
Faculty of Art Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University
Katarzyna Cytlak: UMK, Toruń
Partners:
Museum of Fine Arts – KEMKI (Budapest), Galeria Miejska Arsenał (Poznań), Archiwum Idei (Poznań), VVP AVU (Prague), Department of Art History, Comenius University (Bratislava)
Financial Support:
International Visegrad Fund
Venue:
ZAMEK Cultural Center, New Scene
Św. Marcin Street 80/82, Poznań, Poland
Artworks:
Angelo de Aquino, Through Myself, 1973, Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznań
Jarosław Kozłowski, Reality, book cover, 1972
Geź a Perneczky, Marxists Cells, 1983 (on the 100th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx)
Website created by Arek Pasożyt
Forum logo designed by Luiza Kempińska
The conference is the final chapter of a four-part conference series organised in the framework of the project Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s.
