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Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland
Jörg Scheller was invited by the University of Groningen (NL) to present and discuss art projects from present-day Poland that oppose the rampant polarization between internationally oriented left-wing liberals and nationally oriented right-wing conservatives. His lecture “Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland” focused on artists (a.o. Daniel Rycharski and Jana Shostak)…
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Art, Activism, Absence?
How can an absence be transformed into something productive? Following two previous conversations on the topics of antagonism and autonomy, we looked at the topic of absence. The field of independent and socially engaged art in Moldova is shaped by absences: a lack of cultural strategies, of local funding, of spaces and other types of infrastructures. Additionally, the massive…
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Common Ground: Discussion with Yulia Kostereva and Rusanda Alexandru
The evolution of Ukrainian artists’ artistic strategies in the last decade, by Yulia Kostereva. Yulia Kostereva showed how artists’ methods and strategies have changed during the ten years of war, based on the activity of the platform Open Place. Her presentation explored how the full-scale invasion in 2022 has affected society, cultural life and artists…
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Common Ground: Discussion with Bojan Djordjev and Vitalie sprinceana
LEFTovers, by Bojan Djordjev What is left from the 20th century left politics, Marxist thought and material and intellectual heritage of the communist project that can still stimulate our imagination and bring back the narratives of utopian future into the public sphere? What is the role of temporary collectives created in the field of contemporary…