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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 and Peace – Roundtable Discussion
In this public event, Advisory Board member Gwen Burnyeat (political anthropologist, University of Edinburgh) presented her recent book, “The Face of Peace – Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia” . In the following discussion, Advisory Board member Jarosław Lubiak (researcher, Szczecin Art Academy), Jörg Scheller (art historian, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, ZHdK), Rana Yazaji (co-director CAS…
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The research project featured on ZHdK’s Kunstlicht podcast
Rada Leu and Jörg Scheller spoke with Kunstlicht co-host Eva Pauline Bossow about the potentials and limitations of art as peace(building). Rada gave insights into her research in the Republic of Moldova. https://www.zhdk.ch/meldung/wie-kuenste-den-frieden-foerdern-7061
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Symposium: Art in Times of Culture Wars, Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznan, 2023
This symposium invited artists and scholars from Poland who are concerned with the country’s ongoing culture wars about issues such as e.g. abortion or blasphemy laws, LGBT rights, migration, freedom of speech, role of the church. The aim was to present and discuss their respective works and methods with a view to ethical as well as…