Overcoming
Dictatorships
Round-table
Discussion (8 Oct., 6.30 p.m.) at the Ikon Gallery,
Exhibition
(9 October – 9 November 2008, weekdays, 10-5, free) and conference (9 October
2008, 9-4),
What has
happened to the art since the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989? How do
artists respond to the political, social and economic changes?
17 works
by 10 artists from across the EU give us an insight into processes of mourning,
remembering and overcoming the past. This exhibition will be opened by a
conference exploring the roles of the visual in overcoming dictatorships (for
more information, see http://overcomings.blogspot.com/).
The conference will
be preceded by a round-table discussion with artists participating in the
Overcoming Dictatorships
exhibition. Chaired by the off-site curator of the Ikon Gallery Helen
Legg, it will focus on up and coming contemporary art groups in post-Communist
countries and draw parallels with the situation immediately after 1989, when the
former underground art replaced the official.
The
exhibition, conference and round-table discussion are part of the EU-funded
project ‘Overcoming Dictatorships – the Encounter of Poets, Artists and Writers’
(principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Besier, Professor of European
Studies, Technische Universität,
Artists
participating in the exhibition: Zbynĕk Benýšek - Zbigniew Czop - Mirela
Dauceanu - Ulf Göpfert - Harald
Hauswald - Silvestro Lodi - Vlad Nancă - Sándor Pinczehelyi - Michele Zaggia -
Aleksander
Zyśko.
Dr. Jutta Vinzent
(co-investigator in the EU project and co-convener of the
conference)
Senior Lecturer in
Modern and Contemporary Art ,
Birmingham ,
GB-B15 2TS
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