[artinfo] online symposium of the East Europe Biennial Alliance

[Bienále VVUMOA]

The event will be streaming live on September 18th 2020 from 12.00 pm CET

        Culture at the Crossroads: The East 
Europe Biennial Alliance Invites to an Online 
Symposium.

The live streamed symposium of the East European 
Biennale Alliance is taking place on Friday 18 
September 2020, and is devoted to mutual 
relationships of institutional co-operation, 
decolonisation, ecology and technologies, as well 
as the society-wide changes that cultural 
institutions are facing, among other factors as a 
consequence of the present coronavirus crisis. 
The symposium will be broadcast live on the 
online channels of the hosting Biennale Matter of 
Art (VVUMOA), which together with the Biennale 
Warszawa, Kyiv Biennial and OFF-Biennale Budapest 
is a founder member of the EEBA. For more 
information, including the programme of 
individual contributions, click 
<https://art.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a7fd25508e9660f5273e4884&id=f20135857c&e=24c29df550>here.

        How Do We Want to Co-operate in Eastern Europe?

What should we expect from art and art 
institutions in the next few years or decades? 
What is their role in a time of fundamental 
social transformation? Why do we create and 
exhibit art, for whom do we do it, and does it 
make any sense to continue using the same formats 
and materials as previously? What should art 
focus on and what can it change. Biennales have 
become important means for seeking new contexts 
and audiences for contemporary art. In this 
light, it is the intention of the Alliance to 
reinforce the role of biennales in shaping new 
forms of international solidarity, expanding the 
social-political imagination and the development 
of alternative cultural solutions. Through an 
uncompromising linkage of aesthetics and 
politics, the Biennale Alliance wishes to present 
a new shared narrative to the East European 
region, and newly define the manner in which 
cultural institutions co-operate.

Participants
Tereza Stejskalová, Veronika Janatková, Dominika 
Trapp, KateÞina Smejkalová, Noemi Purkrábková, 
Zoltán Ginelli, Eszter Lázár, Eszter Szakács, 
Serge Klymko, Wolfgang Schwärzler, Vasyl 
Cherepanyn, Aleksandra Jach, Micha½ Dàbrowski, 
Bartek Fràckowiak and Marta Michalak.

Links
<https://art.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a7fd25508e9660f5273e4884&id=9864bdf03e&e=24c29df550>Symposium 
programme

<https://art.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a7fd25508e9660f5273e4884&id=c70834ec02&e=24c29df550>Stream 
on Zoom*
(* the streaming will begin on Friday September 18th 2020 at 12.00 pm CET)

Website: 
<https://art.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a7fd25508e9660f5273e4884&id=9b8497201c&e=24c29df550>matterof.art
Email: <mailto:info at matterof.art?subject=Hello%20VvuMoA>info at matterof.art 

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