SEMINAR NO.2: ART AND DOCUMENTARY

Friday 10 November 2006
1-6pm

Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
Palace of Arts
H-1095 Budapest
Komor Marcell u. 1
venue website

Although there is no fee for attendence at this seminar, prior booking is essential. Please download a booking form here.

SPEAKERS

Lynda Morris ( Norwich School of Art)
‘Picasso: Peace or Freedom: Sheffield Peace Congress 1950’

Eva Forgacs ( Pasadena Art Centre for Design)
'Documenting Socialism and Its Culture'

Angela Harutyunyan ( University of Bremen)
‘Collective Memory Fragmented: Public Symbols and Political Power in Minsk’

Anton Lederer (Rotor Graz)
‘Don't trust the pictures. Some examples of manipulation in art'

SOCIALIST MEMORY FILM SCREENING

 The Socialist Memory film screening features film and video works by contemporary artists that deal with the memory of the communist past in Eastern Europe . The selected films also demonstrate the variety of approaches within contemporary art to the use of documentary material and techniques. Devised by Maja and Reuben Fowkes www.translocal.org

Anri Sala (Albania/France) Intervista, 1998

Zbynek Baladran (Czech Republic), Working Process, 2004

Arturas Raila (Lithuania), The Girl is Innocent, 1999

Goran Dević ( Croatia ), Imported Crows, 2005

Johanna Billing ( Sweden ) Magical World, 2005

Detailed programme and speaker biographies to follow.