East-Central European Art Forum
Inaugural Conference
Theorizing the Geography
of East-Central European Art
26-27 October 2018
Free Admission
October 26, 2018 (Friday)
9.00 – 9.30
Opening
9.30 – 11.30 / Session 1
Mapping and Un-mapping: The Spatial Turn
Chair: Agata Jakubowska
| 9.30-9.50 | Steven Mansbach, Modernist Myths and their Methodological Implications |
| 9.50-10.10 | Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Mapmaking as Image-making: The Case of East Central Europe |
| 10.10-10.30 | Borut Vogelnik, Retroprincip Book Series |
| 10.30-10.50 | Magdalena Radomska, Dialectical Geography and Horizontal Art History |
Discussion
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 – 14.00 / Session 2
Redrawing Maps & Shifting Borders
Chair: Maria Hlavajova
| 12.00-12.20 | Éva Forgács, The Shifting Notions of East-Central Europe |
| 12.20-12.40 | Carmen Popescu, Reporting from the (East) Front: Eastern Europe Architectural Historiography of the Former Communist Bloc in the Making |
| 12.40-13.00 | Amy Bryzgel, Atemporal Histories and the Geography of Central and Eastern Europe Case Study: Performance Art |
| 13.00-13.20 | Cristian Nae, East of the West and West of the East: On the Concept of Scale in Critical Geography of Art |
Discussion
14.00 – 15.00
Break
15.00 – 17.00 / Session 3
Regional Displacements & Disrupted Art Histories
Chair: Urška Jurman
| 15.00-15.20 | Karolina Majewska-Güde, Digging Inside of the Trans/national. Approaching the Condition of Close Other from the Perspective of Minor Transnationalism |
| 15.20-15.40 | Ieva Astahovska, The Mapping of Baltic Art as Critical Case Study in Context of Eastern Europe and its Revisionist Approaches |
| 15.40-16.00 | Marko Ilić, “Future’s in the Balkans”: Post-Yugoslav Art on the Borders of Europe |
| 16.00-16.20 | April Eisman, Ideological and Geographical Invisibility: The Western Reception of East German Art |
Discussion
17.00-17.15
Coffee break
17.15-18.30
In memory of Piotr Piotrowski
Recollections of the conference East European Art seen from Global Perspective (Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin, 24-27 October 2014) and reflections on the book Globalizing East European Art Histories (eds. Beata Hock and Anu Allas, Routledge 2018)
You can access the book here: https://rdcu.be/4frV. The link will expire on October 23
October 27, 2018 (Saturday)
9.30 – 11.30 / Session 4
Alternative Spatializations: Production of Spaces
Chair: Luiza Nader
| 9.30-9.50 | Sven Spieker, Foreign Language and Utopia in Eastern European Neo-Avantgarde Art |
| 9.50-10.10 | Pavlína Morganová, Art History of the Place |
| 10.10-10.30 | Allison Leigh, An Experiment in Horizontal Art History: Critiquing Modernist Geographies |
| 10.30-10.50 | Jérôme Bazin, How Far Can Art Historian Scatter Spaces ? |
Discussion
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 – 14.00 / Session 5
Postcolonial Conditions & Decolonial Perspectives
Chair: Magdalena Radomska
| 12.00-12.20 | Edit András, Shift from Geopolitics of Place to Chrono-politics of Time |
| 12.20-12.40 | Marina Gržinić, The Postsocialist and Postcolonial Conditions as Features of a Conceptualization of a “New” Geography |
| 12.40-13.00 | Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes, Pluriversal Geo-epistemologies of East European Art |
| 13.00-13.20 | Lina Džuverović, Still Sucking On Communism – Challenging the Totalitarian Paradigm as a step towards ‘Delinking’ from the Colonial Matrix Of Power |
Discussion
14.00 – 15.00
Break
15.00 – 17.00 / Session 6
Relational Geography & Transregional Collaborations
Chair: Hedvig Turai
Discussion
17.00 – 17.15
Coffee break
17.15 – 18.00
Conference final discussion
The conference will be held in English
Organizers:
Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art
Department of Art History
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Venue:
ZAMEK Cultural Center, New Scene
Św. Marcin Street 80/82, Poznań, Poland
The conference is supported by ERSTE Foundation.
