The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art is proud to announce that two major events dedicated to the Art History of Socialist Period in Eastern Europe will take place in Riga in May, 2011.
Conference Recuperating the Invisible Past. Perspectives and ways of dealing with the complexity of art history of the 1960ies 1980ies in Eastern Europe Date: 17 18 May Venue: Goethe Institute in Riga, Torna Street 1a Exhibition Parallel Chronologies. Invisible History of Exhibitions Date: 17 May 5 June Venue: Riga City Art Space, Kungu Street 3, Old Town The conference Recuperating the Invisible Past will focus on the most recent understanding and approaches of writing and translating modernist and neo-avant-garde art from the 60ies 80ies in Eastern Europe. It will introduce contemporary interpretations of parallel histories of East and West European art and will present case studies where canonized narratives of art will be challenged. The conference presentations and discussions will be orientated around streams: a) comparative analysis of regional art courses, b) looking into approaches and methodologies which are or can be used, and c) parallel looks and integration of knowledge from other disciplines into art historical gaze. Applying postcolonial and post-communist discourses, conference speakers will offer diverse perspectives on how to deal with complexity of recent East European art history by analyzing art practices and discourses that are interwoven with sociopolitical and ideological agendas and international movements. Also, they will speak about artistic phenomena, created across artistic genres and art forms. 20 speakers include Eda Čufer (SL/USA), Victor Misiano (RUS), Sven Spieker (USA/DE), Mark Allen Svede (USA), Linara Dovydaityte (LT) Piotr Piotrovski (PL) and others. Two panel discussions will also take place: Writing History after 1989. Relations between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism and Facing the Shadow: Memory Politics in Baltics. Conference program (preliminary) TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011 8.30 9.00 Registration 9.00 Opening remarks by organizers 9.15 Victor Misiano (Moscow) Legacy of the art from the regions of the former Soviet Union and its locus within contemporary coordinate 9.45 Dora Hegyi (Budapest) Parallel Chronologies. Invisible history of Exhibitions 10.15 Ieva Astahovska (Riga) Towards the contemporary art in-between disciplines, media, genres in the 70ies 10.45 Coffee Break 11.00 Mari Laanemets (Tallin / Graz) Interdisciplinarity as a specific feature and radical concept in the Estonian progressive art in the 1970ies. 11.30 Andres Kurg (Tallinn) Three takes on the environment 12.00 Linara Dovydaityte (Vilnius) Beyond dichotomies, towards ambivalence? Representations of the Soviet art in todays Lithuania 12.30 Jelena Vesic (Belgrad) Canons of contemporaneity and politics of historicisation in relation to the readings of the East European geo-political art history writing / Political Practices of (post-) Yugoslav Art 13.00 14.00 Lunch 14.00 Sven Spieker (Santa Barbara) Anthology of Conceptual art in Eastern Europe /Art Margins 14.30 Vit Havranek (Prague) From Uniformity to Differentiation a Narrative of Post-Communist subject 15.00 Mark Allen Svede(Ohio) - Dodging the Issue, or, An Aggressive Apologia for the Nonconformist Paradigm 15.30 15.45 Coffee break 16.00 17.30 Panel discussion: Writing and translating art from the former Eastern Europe. Relationship between post-communist and post-colonial. Participants: S. Spieker, P. Pietrowski, D. Hegyi, V. Misiano, S. Pele; Moderators: Ieva Astahovska and Solvita Krese 18.00 Opening of the exhibition Parallel Chronologies. Invisible History of Exhibitions at Riga Art Space WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011 9.00 Piotr Piotrowski (Poznan) - Nationalization of modernism in East-Central Europe 9.30 Eda Cufer (Ljubljana) The Global Art Systemand Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe 10.00 Amy Bryzgel (Aberdeen) Performance Art East and West 10.30 -10.45 Coffee break 10.45 Barbara Büscher (Leipzig / Cologne) - LOST & FOUND: Archiving Performance. 11.15 Vilnis Vēj (Riga) Imitation of Artworks in Latvian Mime Performances: >From Technique to Subject 11.45 Anu Allas (Tallinn) The adaptation of play in Estonian theatre and art of the 1960s 12.15 Stella Pele (Riga) Leftist avant-garde heritage and new artistic developments in the late Soviet Latvias art writing 12.45 13.45 Lunch 13.45 Epp Lankots (Tallin) The avant-gardes relationship to history 14.15 Iliana Veinberga(Riga) Position of the industrial design in the context of art and culture history of the Latvian SSR 14.45 Maija Rudovska (Riga) Our own and foreign architecture. The Soviet architecture in Latvia through the kaleidoscope of post-colonialism. 15.15 Marija Dremaite Modernist Architecture in the Soviet Baltic Republics (1960s-1980s): Research Perspectives 15.45 16.00 Coffee break 16.00 17.30 Panel discussion: Facing the Shadow: Memory Politics in the Baltic Region. Maija Spuriņa, Ivars Austers, Linara Dovydaityte, Mārtiņ Kaprāns. Moderators: Anda Klavina, Ieva Astahovska Further information: Ieva Astahovska [email protected], Anda Kļaviņa [email protected], Phone +371 67039282 http://www.lcca.lv -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ Oberlist mailing list [email protected] https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
