Invitation to participate in the module
We invite you to apply for the fourth module "Art and Feminism", which will deal with theory of art and practice, the production of knowledge within the interdisciplinary field that includes contemporary art, feminist approach to curatorial practices and social criticism and politics of everyday life. The focus of the module is on artistic production that deals with politically and socially engaged topics which was created in the period after the 90s in BiH, the post-Yugoslav area, and beyond. The module is aimed at methodological, discursive and visual experimentation with new exhibition forms, artworks and positions of authors within contemporary art scenes.
This module will pay special attention to different ways of curating knowledge and expanding the field of contemporary art through feminist policies and practices through the format of the Endless Symposium (Beskrajnog simpozijuma) of the feminist curatorial collective Red Mined.
ABOUT THE ENDLESS SYMPOSIUM (O BESKRAJNOM SIMPOZIJUMU)
The endless symposium takes on the ancient meaning of the term symposium (Greek συμπόσιον), which originally meant a feast at which philosophical conversations were held, but abolishes the exclusivity of the ancient symposium as a social event in which only adult men with the status of citizens participate. In contrast, within the semi-public space, this symposium brings together those who were forbidden to participate in the ancient forum - women and foreigners - barbarians, all those who did not have the status of citizens in Antiquity. Through dialogue and other discursive acts and forms of performance, relying on artistic practices, social and political-theoretical texts, and feminist action, the symposium guides us through politically engaged and art-oriented questions and answers. All participants are invited to create, upgrade and change the "live" program together with us.
ENDLESS SYMPOSIUM ON RED LOVE
The central theme of this ‘barbaric’ symposium is the idea of radical or red love and its role in the utopian and dystopian imagination of the future. Love is a social construct that reproduces patriarchal, capitalist, and even colonial relations. On the other hand, it can be the initiator of utopian ideas about communion and community, which in its ultimate essence represents a rebellion against various mechanisms of human exploitation. The radical change in the understanding of love, which aims to reveal this second dimension of love, originated from the struggle for the emancipation of women and the social revolution that took place at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Then begins the struggle for free love - free from all institutional and class oppression, free from community in the form of marriage and the bourgeois family. The struggle also raises difficult additional questions, especially those about relationships and the demarcations of work and love that remain unresolved to this day, and although completely drowned out they are still painfully relevant to those most persistent who imagine or fight for a better world.
Within the symposium, we will deal with the politics of affect, love dystopia and utopias, and the new reality that arose as a result of the pandemic and prevented both sociability and artistic and curatorial practice within public spaces of common life. Special attention is paid to socio-political and engaged artistic practices that can reflect, process and emancipate their own and common social positions and produce the public sphere through endless possibilities of free experimentation.
Speakers at the symposium
Through dialogues, the participants of the symposium will face the dominant social constructs of love in the public / private sphere, shaped through individual, collective and institutional power relations. The question of the radical feminist concept of love and the emancipatory potential it has in the domain of social everyday life will be opened. Speakers at the endless symposium will be: Anja Bogojević, Olga Dimitrijević, Andreja Dugandžić, Danijela Dugandžić, Maja Pelević, Jelena Petrović i Lala Raščić along with performance of Jusufa Brkića.
All participants are invited to create, upgrade and change the "live" program together with us.
Symposium Program
The program is intended for critically and socio-politically engaged people, but also for all those who, like us, are interested in the answers to the burning questions that humanity and certain societies face today.
Register HERE until 15. August 2020.
The number of participants is limited. The module will be organized outdoors, in the courtyard of the Nona Residence in Sarajevo.
The program is implemented with the support of the Olof Palme International Centra and i-platform.