SocialEast is a forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe. On 26st oo April, at Jagellonian University of Krakov, SocialEast presents a symposium on the legacy of 1968 for contemporary art in Eastern Europe and beyond.
This seminar will examine the multiple legacies of 1968 for contemporary art in terms of new artistic practices involving dematerialisation, performance and the use of new media; social and institutional critique; as well as the impact of political upheavals on art. It will also consider the contemporary implications of the social movements and artistic radicalism of 1968 against the backdrop of the organised commemoration of the 40th anniversary, as well as the specificities of the experience of 1968 in the countries of Eastern Europe .
PROGRAM
9.30 Registration
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Auditorium Maximum, conference room 2nd floor, Krupnicza street 35, Krakow
9.45 Welcome: Andrzej Szczerski ( Jagiellonian University Krakow ) and Reuben Fowkes (MIRIAD MMU)
10.00 Maja Fowkes (UCL) & Reuben Fowkes (MIRIAD MMU)
A Glossary of 1968
10.30 Malcom Miles ( Plymouth University )
The End of Utopia: Herbert Marcuse in 1967-68
11.00 David Crowley (Royal College of Art , London )
Nineteen Sixty-Seven
11.30 Daniel Grun ( Academy of Fine Arts Bratislava )
Borders and Infinity. Questioning Utopian Imagery of Slovak Neo-Avant-garde in the 1960s and 1970s
Respondent for the first session: Andrzej Szczerski (Jagiellonian University Krakow )
12.00 Coffee break
12.30 Sheila Skaff ( University of Texas )
Eastern and Western European Cinema after the Canceled 1968 Cannes Film Festival
13.00 Francesca Franco (Birbeck College London)
New Media, Politics and the 1968 Venice Biennial
14.30 Wilhelm Sasnal film screening
Introduced by Andrzej Szczerski ( Jagiellonian University Krakow )
15.00 Tomasz Gryglewicz ( Jagiellonian University , Krakow )
The students’ revolt in March 68 in Kraków and its artistic consequences
15.30 Maria Hussakowska ( Jagiellonian University , Krakow )
On the aftermath of 1968 for the Krakow art scene
16.00 Luiza Nader ( Institute of Art History , University of Warsaw )
Working through 1968: Ball in Zalesie and its Re-enactment
16.30 Adriana Kiss-Davies ( University of Wales Aberystwyth)
Josef Koudelka / Prague 1968
Respondent for third session: Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan )
17.00 Discussion
The SocialEast research forum considers the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe through collaborative projects, exhibitions and seminars and is an initiative of Dr. Reuben Fowkes MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University. The SocialEast Seminar on the Legacy of 1968 is co-organised with Dr.Andrzej Szczerski Institute of Art History Jagiellonian University Krakow.