Where is the Line Between Us?
dal 20/3/2015 al 20/3/2015
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20/3/2015
Where is the Line Between Us?
CCC Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
The forum brings together practitioners and thinkers from the fields of art, history, and sociology to explore new models of cultural production and historicization of the region.
Where is the Line Between Us?: Cautionary Tales From Now brings together practitioners and thinkers from the fields of art, history, and sociology to explore new models of cultural production and historicization that have been shaped by the unique characteristics of the region. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection, the conference is the first in Russia to take as its starting point common urgencies shared by artists from Eastern Europe and Russia.
The title is a reference to a series of photographs of 1980 by Komar & Melamid wherein the duo collaborated with American artist Douglas Davis on a series of photographs that commented on the political divide between the East and West during the Cold War. Standing on opposite sides of a thick vertical line, the artists hold plaques with provocative questions that ask what the line is for, until the last image, when they finally reach towards one another and move through the barrier.
Examining the legacy of such a divide in relation to current polarizing politics, the conference will convene three sessions that each explore evolving positions toward the East/West axis in a post-socialist world. Through lectures and panel discussions, speakers will revisit select regional histories since 1989 to suggest how our understanding of past situations can change and develop through the perspectives offered by present circumstances, and vice versa. Acknowledging the renewed need for retrospection as a progressive tool to look to the future, the day-long event will address the “revisionist” approach to making history while opening up the opportunity for fresh engagement with underrepresented worldviews and their transformative potential in current cultural conditions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Saturday 21 March, 2015
12:00 – 20:00
11:30 Guests arrive
12:00 – 12:10 Introduction by Director of Garage Museum Anton Belov and Garage Chief Curator Kate Fowle
Session 1: Post what?
12:10 – 12:15 Session intro by Ekaterina Inozemtzeva
12:15 – 12:35 Boris Groys, keynote speaker
12:40 – 13:00 Anthony Gardner
13:00 – 13:20 Q&A
13:20 – 13:40 Arseny Zhilyaev
13:45 – 14:05 Rastko Močnik
14:10 – 14:20 Q&A
Moderator: Ekaterina Inozemtzeva, Garage Curator
14:20 – 15:00 Break
Session 2: Collection as a tool for new institutional strategies
15:00 – 15:10 Session intro by Kate Fowle
15:10 – 16:10 Panel discussion with Nailya Allakhverdieva, Zdenka Badovinac, Andrey Egorov, Alisa Prudnikova
16:10 – 16:40 Q&A with speakers
Moderator: Kate Fowle, Garage Chief Curator
16:40 – 17:20 Break
Session 3: Artistic strategies in times of conflict
17:20 – 17:40 Session intro by Snejana Krasteva
17:45 – 18:05 Viktor Misiano, keynote speaker
18:10 – 18:20 Eda Čufer
18:25 – 18:45 Q&A
18:50 – 19:10 Ilya Budraitskis
19:15 – 19:25 Q&A
19:30 – 19:50 Taus Makhacheva
Moderator: Snejana Krasteva, Garage Curator
Concept: Kate Fowle, Zdenka Badovinac
Organized by: Snejana Krasteva, Ekaterina Inozemtseva
Project managers: Elena Melkumova, Maria Sarycheva
Coordinator: Brittany Stewart
Conference program can be downloaded here.
Speakers:
Nailya Allakhverdieva, curator, Art Director at the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM); Zdenka Badovinac, Director of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, co-curator of Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons; Anthony Gardner, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Oxford; Ilya Budraitskis, historian, curator and activist in Moscow; Eda Čufer, dramaturge, curator, and writer, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Maine College of Art, Portland; Boris Groys, philosopher and cultural theoretician, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University; Super Taus; Viktor Misiano, independent curator and Chief Editor Moscow Art Magazine; Rastko Močnik, sociologist, literary theorist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana; Alisa Prudnikova, curator, art historian, art manager, Director of the Ural Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts; Arseny Zhilyaev, artist, lives and works in Moscow and Voronezh.
The conference will be in Russian and in English with simultaneous translation. ID is required for hire of the equipment.
Saturday, March 21, 12:00 – 20:00
CCC Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
Moscow Russia
9/45 Krymsky Val st. +7