Towards Transregional Art Histories

Symposium accompanying the exhibition Haptic Echo. Nature, Body, Politics in the Art of the Former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia at the Bratislava City Gallery.

The symposium consists of lectures and discussions devoted to regional art history and transregional research in the field of art of the second half of the 20th century. It builds on the exhibition Haptic Echo, which accentuates environmental motifs in art from the 1960s to the 1990s and confronts the parallel, though often intertwined, narratives of art from two modern European federations – Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The symposium will address issues of mutual contacts and friendly exchanges that led to an aesthetics of defiance and the emergence of collective platforms. The ambition of the symposium is to discuss the legacies of radical artistic practices, to highlight the little-known contexts of the politics of multiethnic cultural spaces, and to bring the phenomenon of minority cultures into focus.

The symposium is open to students as well as the public, and the language of discussion will be English.

Contributors:
Suzana Marjanić (HR), Klara Kemp-Welch (UK), Emese Kürti (HU), Jana Písaříková & Ondřej Chrobák (CZ), Luka Savić (SI)

Curators of the exhibition Haptic Echo:
Daniel Grúň (SK), Darko Šimičić (HR), Miško Šuvaković (RS)

Performative actions: Vlado Martek (HR)

 
Symposium programme:

• 12:30-13:30 Guided tour through the exhibition Haptic Echo (Gallery of the City of Bratislava, Pálffy Palace) Daniel Grúň, Miško Šuvaković, Darko Šimičić
• 13:30-14:00 break, participants will move through the courtyard to the Academy of Fine Arts
• 14:00-14:15 Opening of the symposium and opening speech Daniel Grúň, Miško Šuvaković, Darko Šimičić
• 14:15-14:45 Suzana Marjanić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
• 14:45-15:15 Emese Kürti (Central European Research Institute for Art History – KEMKI, Budapest)
• 15:15-15:45 Luka Savić (Academy of Visual Arts – AVA, Ljubljana)
• 15:45-16:00 break
• 16:00-16:30 Jana Písaříková & Ondřej Chrobák (Moravian Gallery, Brno)
• 16:30-17:00 Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London)
• 17:00-18:00 Q&A + Discussion
   

Venues:

• Gallery of the City of Bratislava, Pálffy Palace, 2nd and 3rd floor
• Academy of Fine Arts, Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, 1st Floor

Symposium partners: Centre of Arts Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Július Koller Society, Academy of Fine Arts, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA)