SEMINAR NO.5: ART AND EMPIRE

PROGRAMME

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Saturday 17 November 2007

10.00 Registration and coffee
Lecture Room, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street

10.20 Introduction: Reuben Fowkes

10.30 Miško Suvaković ( Belgrade University)
Politics and Art after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

11.00 Tomáš Pospiszyl ( Academy of Performing Arts , Prague )
The Reception of Czech Body Art from 1960 to the Present

11.30 Erwin Kessler (Institute of Philosophy, Bucharest)
Avant-garde and neo-traditionalism: competition, cohabitation and compromise in Romanian art in the 1940s and the 1950s

12.00 Coffee break

12.20 Ben Cope (Zacheta National Gallery Warsaw)
Art in the Age of Immaterial Production

13.00 Lunch

14.20 Suzanne Cotter (Modern Art Oxford)
YOU LOOKING AT ME: On cultural mobility and Arrivals: New Art from Europe

14.50 Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius (London University)
Cartography and empire: mapping Eastern Europe

14.50 Magdalena Radomska ( Adam Mickiewicz University)
Art and Empire: Doubly mined semantic minefield

15.50 Szacsva y Pal ( Hungary)
Artist presentation: Empire in Different Colours

16.30 Discussion

16.50 End

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