Symposium Unlearning Biennale
How to think of the biennale not only as a curatorial platform to get involved with contemporary art practices from around the world but also as a tool and process through which we change the way in which contemporary art institutions are run? Is it possible to reform the biennale, so that it operates under more equal economic, gender, and ethnic power relations and under conditions of ecological sustainability? How to imagine a biennale that does not end up in establishing a promising career for a couple of individuals while the rest of the team is exhausted physically, mentally, and financially?
FRIDAY 19th October 2018
10:00 - 10:10 – Introduction
10:10 - 10:30 – Spolek Skutek – Pavel Vančát
10:30 - 10:50 – Liverpool Biennale – Rosie Cooper Right Here and
Out There
10:50 - 11:00 - coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 – Klinika – Tereza Virtová Limits of utopia politics: Lessons from autonomous social center organizing
11:20 - 11:40 – Oslo Biennial First Edition – Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Laying the ground...
11:40 – 12:20 – Emílie Rigová The representation of Roma contemporary art/ artists in art scene
12:20 - 12:40 – discussion
12:40 - 14:00 – lunch
14:00 - 14:20 – Jakarta Biennale – Farid Rakun “Grow up ground-ups!” or challenges instituting Jakarta Biennale
14:20 - 14:40 – Display – Zbyněk Baladrán and Zuzana Jakalová Multilogues on the Now: On Formats of Nowadays
14:40 - 15:00 - coffee break
15:00 - 15:20 – Berlin Biennale– Gabi Ngcobo What’s Not a Question of Power?
15:20 - 15:40 – Visual Culture Research Centre – Vasyl Cherepanyn and Nataliia Neshevets The Kyiv International
15:40 – 16:00 – Jindrich Chalupecky Society – Karina Kottová and Tereza Jindrová Where to experience the biennale
16:00-17:00 - discussion
19th and 20th October 2018 10 a. m. – 5 p. m.
Modern Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts
Výstaviště 188, Prague
event will be held in English
free entrance
barrier-free access
parents with children welcome
Event will be moderated by: Georg Schöllhammer, Anna Remešová, Farid Rakun and Tereza Virtová
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SATURDAY 20th October 2018
10:00 - 10:20 – Biennale Warsaw - Pawel Wodzinski, Anna Galas-Kosil and Bartosz Frąckowiak Institutions of the Future. Alternatives for Politics and Culture
10:20 - 10:40 – Futura – Michal Novotný Indispensible role?
10:40 – 11:00 – coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 – tranzit.cz – Tereza Stejskalová and Vít Havránek Why Do We Want to Unlearn the Biennale? From Fringe to Mainstream
11:20 - 11:40 – Casco Art Institute – Binna Choi Gamsahamnida Gamsahamnida (Thank you, thank you, in Korean)
11:40 - 12:00 – discussion
12:00 - 14:00 – lunch
14:00 - 14:20 – Plato Ostrava– Marek Pokorný
14:20 - 14:40 – OFF Biennale - Hajnalka Somogyi and Borbála Szalai Can We Work Like This? OFF-Biennale Budapest as a case study
14:40 - 15:00 - coffee break
15:00 - 15:20 - Nha San Collective – Tuan Mami and Chau Hoang Instituition of Survival: Collective of Super Friendship
15:20 - 15:40 – ETC galerie – Anna Remešová and Alžběta Bačíková "And what about the small local gallery?"
15:40 - 17:00 – discussion
