Linking (Art) Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Since
Donnerstag, 20. April 2023, 11:30 – 20:00
Museumsbesuch / Workshop
Seminarsitzung
Filmvorführung mit „neverending“ Diskussion
Programm
11:30 – 13:00
14:30 – 16:30
Museumsbesuch und Workshop vor Ort „Decolonizing the Museum – Das Grassi Museum als Beispiel“
Grassi Museum, Johannispl. 5-11, 04103 Leipzig
Seminarsitzung (auf englischer Sprache) mit Präsentationen zum Thema „Transcontinental solidarities“
The presentations focus on transcontinental festivals, considering both specific artworks and the larger geopolitical/diplomatic factors motivating these events. Taking a comparative approach between festivals with Soviet and American backing, case studies will include FESTMAN 66 in Dakar, FESTAC 77 in Nigeria, The Pan-African Festival of Algiers 69, and the International Youth Festival in Berlin (1973).
17:00 – open end
FilmvorführungComrade Where Are You Today (R: Kirsi Liimatainen) und Diskussion (auf englischer Sprache)
About the film: What did we believe in back then? Filmmaker Kirsi Liimatainen seeks answers to this question. She studied Marxism-Leninism at East Germany’s FDJ Youth College “Wilhelm Pieck” in 1988. More than twenty years later, Kirsi sets out to find her one-time comrades. She wants to know what is left of the great dream of revolution in a globalised world. This mission takes her to Bolivia, Chile, Lebanon and South Africa.
Konzept, Organisation und Projektleitung: Dr. Beáta Hock (GWZO-Abteilung „Verflechtung und Globalisierung“)