The conference is part of the wider ”Monument to Transformation” project curated by Vit Havranek and Zbynek Baladran. It is being held within the framework of the most extensive exhibition organized to date at the Prague City Gallery, on the occasion of the publication of the Czech version of the Transformation Atlas.
Speakers: Anna Paula Cohen, Claire Bishop, Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, Joanna Erbel, Victor Misiano, Karl Holmquist, and Georg Schoellhammer.Guests: Alina Serban, Antonia Majaca, Beatriz Herraez, Chuz Martinez, Jessica Morgan, Sabine Maria Schmidt, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez.
Academy of Arts, Achitecture and Design in Prague, Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1, Czech Republic; 12 July 2009.
Exhibition and conference organized by transit and the Prague City Gallery General partner: ERSTE Stiftung www.monumenttotransformation.org
The main theme of the conference is that the experiences of countries which have undergone transformation processes (Eastern Europe, Greece, Portugal, Indonesia, South Korea and certain Latin American countries, such as Uruguay, Chile and Argentina) are comparable from a new geographic perspective. The comparison will be carried out by a group of authors and panel participants based on both analyses and subjective interpretations of the entries in the Transformation Atlas. The conference will also include contributions showcasing the plurality of methodological and imaginative approaches used by the creative forces behind the project. The aim of the book is to create a systematic list of dictionary entries which may serve as a tool for understanding the social and political changes that have taken place in countries considered by themselves or by others to have undergone significant transformations. The book, published in Czech, comprises over 200 basic entries and key terms related to processes of transformation. Several dozen authors from a variety of regions have contributed to it. In addition, certain important historic texts will be published in it once again. The conference has been conceived as a lecture followed by a discussion and is intended for anyone actively engaged in doing research on transformational phenomena (researchers, scholars, university professors, etc. particularly in the fields of art history, art, sociology, history and economics), curators from all over the world, and students. List of speakers: Anna Paula Cohen, Claire Bishop, Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, Joanna Erbel, Victor Misiano, Karl Holmquist, and Georg Schoellhammer. List of guests: Alina Serban, Antonia Majaca, Beatriz Herraez, Chuz Martinez, Jessica Morgan, Sabine Maria Schmidt, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez.
