INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (conference language: English)
Scars: Reflections on Art and Society in Central-East Europe in the 1990s
Conference dates: – Friday, July 9 and Saturday 10, 2021, at 10:00 AM Central European Time (CET)
Venue: Online
The conference is held online. In order to register and receive the ZOOM link, please send an email with your name and surname before Wednesday, July 7th, to: ssekelj@ipu.hr
The conference will also be live-streamed on the Facebook Pages of the Institute of Art History and the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Program: download pdf
Book of abstracts: download pdf
Organisers
Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Conference Concept
Sanja Sekelj, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Janka Vukmir, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
INTRODUCTION
The aim of the conference Scars: Reflections on Art and Society in Central-East Europe in the 1990s, organized by the Institute of Art History and the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb, is to initiate further interest in the research of the period, as well as to engage in a dialogue with researchers who deal with the countries that share similar or comparable political histories and cultural backgrounds.
The conference addresses a wide array of topics, ranging from the challenges of defining the Central-East European region and the accompanying terminological issues, networks of power relations after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the interrelationship between the national, international and transnational social and cultural spaces in the new countries, as well as the self-organisational and self-institutionalising strategies of the actors in the cultural field. In addition to the examination of the interfaces between art and political activism, the conference also touches upon the role of the new networks that emerged in the 1990s, such as the Syndicate mailing list or the network of the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art, as well as the artistic phenomena that originated or gained greater prominence in the 1990s, like socially engaged art, net art or public art. With the wide range of topics and approaches and a number of distinctive spatial perspectives, we hope that this conference will serve as a contribution to a horizontal interpretation of the art of the region, while simultaneously offering new insights and perspectives that will contribute to our understanding of the changes in the cultural field and its relation to the wider socio-political frameworks in the decades that followed.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Konstantin Akinsha (independent researcher and curator, USA/Ukraine)
Andreas Broeckmann (art historian and curator, Berlin. He works at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany)
PARTICIPANTS :
Jon Blackwood & Bojan Ivanov, UK/MK; Sandra Bradvić, BiH;
Miha Colner, SLO; Milena Dragičević Šešić, RS;
Barbora Hájková, CZ; Jasna Jakšić & Tihana Puc, HR;
Kaja Kraner, SLO; Cristina Moraru, RO; Christian Nae, RO;
Stella Pelše, LV; Anne Pfautsch, DE; Dijana Protić, HR;
Sanja Sekelj & Željka Tonković, HR; Keiko Sei, TH/JP;
Anya Smirnova, UA; Darko Šimičić, HR; Jadranka Vinterhalter, HR.
| All presentations are limited to 20-minutes.
| The conference is free and open to everyone.
| The conference is organized within the research project “History of Artistic Institutions in Croatia” (PU-IPU-2019-6), conducted at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb.
| The conference was originally organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka to accompany the exhibition 90s: Scars, within the project Rijeka2020: European Capital of Culture. For more information on the exhibition visit: https://mmsu.hr/en/event/90s-scars-3/
Scientific Committee:
Konstantin Akinsha, PhD, independent researcher and curator, USA/Ukraine
Michal Koleček, PhD, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista PurkyněUniversity, st nad Labem
Ljiljana Kolešnik, PhD, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Ivana Mance, PhD, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Ksenia Nouril, The Print Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Organizing Committee:
Sanja Sekelj, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Janka Vukmir, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Jadranka Vinterhalter, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Darko Šimičić, Tomislav Gotovac Institute, Zagreb
Ana Ćurić, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
All info:
Institute for Contemporary Art
Trg kralja Tomislava 20
HR – 10000 Zagreb
T: +385916199454
E: info@institute.hr
Support:
The conference is financially supported by the Institute of Art History, Goethe Institut Zagreb, City of Rijeka, Rijeka2020: European Capital of Culture.
Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Goethe Institut, Zagreb
Grad Rijeka / City of Rijeka, Rijeka 2020, European Capital of Culture,
and own funds
