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Festival Feministizarte - Braga
Auditório Calouste Gulbenkian
Foto por Luís Estáquio
27.11.09
Gender Check is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s focusing on gender roles. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, curator Bojana Pejić, along with a team of experts from 24 different countries, has put together a selection of more than 400 works including paintings, sculpture, installations, photography, posters, films and videos. The exhibition features more than 200 artists and thus paints an exceptionally diverse picture of a certain chapter in art history that remained largely undiscovered until recently, and which could also have a significant impact on contemporary gender discourse. Gender Check follows the shifts and changes in the representation of male and female role models in art, taking a particular look at how they develop under different socio-political conditions.
The exhibition shows the interrelationship between art and history, taking both a chronological and thematic approach. Up to the 1960s, heroic male and female workers were the dominant figures in the socialist realist artistic tradition. At the time, unofficial art reacted to the state’s reality-transforming programme of a “sexless society” with irony and exposed it for what it was. Following the period of collective state utopian aesthetics, a variety of individual and more open tendencies emerged on a local level - periodically provoking a hostile response - that created independent spaces for nonconformist art. ... (more)
READING GENDER. Art, Power and Politics of Representation in Eastern Europe
No registration is needed to attend the symposium.
14:00 - 14:45 | Introduction: Christine Böhler, Rainer Fuchs, Bojana Pejić |
Section I: CAN FEMINISM SPEAK EAST?
Moderator: Hedwig Saxenhuber
14:45 - 15:30 | Katrin Kivimaa, Twenty Years Later: Actually Existing Feminism and Art in EasternEurope |
15:30 - 16:00 | Artist’s presentation: Anna Daučíková |
16:00 - 16:30 | Artist’s presentation: Mare Tralla |
16:30 - 16:45 | Questions and answers |
16:45 - 17:15 | Coffee break |
17:15 - 18:00 | Vjollca Krasniqi, Returning the Gaze: Gender and Power in Kosovo |
18:00 - 19:15 | Experts’ panel: Ivana Bago, Laima Kreivyte, Suzana Milevska, Almira Ousmanova, Angelika Richter. Moderator: Mara Traumane |
19:30 | Performance, Egle Rakauskaite, For Guilty without the Guilt. Trap. Expulsion from Paradise |
Section II: FUCK YOUR GENDER
Moderator: Johanna Schaffer
10:00 - 10:45 | Juan Vicente Aliaga, Strange Fruit. Sexual Diversity, Art and Politics in Today’s World |
10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
11:00 - 13:30 | Statements by Jet Moon and Agnieszka Morawinska. Discussion with Juan Vicente Aliaga, Agnieszka Morawinska, Johanna Schaffer. Moderator: Jet Moon |
Section III: SUBVERTING CANONS
Moderator: Bojana Pejić
14:30 - 16:00 | Perspectives on Gender and the Canon of Art History. Discussion with Edit András and Griselda Pollock |
16:00 - 16:45 | Keti Chukhrov, Art - Between Gender and the Canon of Art History |
16:45 - 17:15 | Coffee break |
17:15 - 19:00 | Local and International Canons. Discussion with Katy Deepwell, Silvia Eiblmayr, Marina Grzinić, Izabela Kowalczyk, Gislind Nabakowski. Moderator: Bojana Pejić |