Mimara Museum Zagreb, Saturday 21 April 2007.
The SocialEast research forum considers the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe through collaborative projects, exhibitions and seminars.
The goal of SocialEast is to encourage comparative research into the art history of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as consider widerissues in socialist visual culture and beyond. The fourth seminar focuses on the role of artists in excavating memories of the socialist period. It considers the role of artists, curators and researchers in analysing and processing public memories and consciousness, as well as the role of visual representations in our understanding and recoding of Eastern Europe’s socialist past. Speakers include: Zdenka Badovinac (Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana) Erased Memory Miško Šuvaković (Belgrade University) Title to be confirmed Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans (University of Leuven) Self-portrait with a Hammer and Sickle. Defining the Self through Socialist Symbols Lara Weibgen (Yale University) Performance as Ethical Memento: Art and Self-Sacrifice in Communist Czechoslovakia Andrzej Szczerski (Krakow University) Why PRL now? Translations of Memory in Contemporary Polish Art Hedwig Turai (Institute of Art History Budapest) Past – Unmastered: Comparing Hot and Cold Memory Simon Rees (CAC Vilnius) On A Wing and a Prayer: flying in the face of national expectation – Lithuania at Venice 2007 Marko Lulic (Vienna) Artist presentation For abstracts, biographies, programme details and booking information, please see the SocialEast Forum website www.socialeast.org The SocialEast Forum is an initiative of Dr.Reuben Fowkes, MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk email: r.fowkes@mmu.ac.uk
