online conference
2 and 3 of September 2021
Organisers: Arton Foundation (Poland), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art-LCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – SCCA-Ljubljana & Office for Photography (Croatia)
The scholarly sin of omission, and the exclusion of works by women from the canon of art history have resulted in the erasure of the achievements of numerous women artists. Such “amnesia” in history writing processes has been widespread and has been happening regardless of the socio-political situation. However, women artists as well as art historians, critics, curators and gallerists in culturally and economically “peripheral” countries, such as those behind the Iron Curtain, and in the former Yugoslavia, have been at risk of double exclusion on the grounds of both geography and gender. In parallel to the development of new states and socialist societies after WW2, women built themselves up not only politically and culturally, but also artistically.
The conference presents a wide context of the roles of women in the arts and culture with papers reflecting the topics in twelve countries, from Latvia to Bulgaria and from Ukraine to Croatia.
The two-day conference will comprise seven panels devoted to issues such as the work of women artists in the field of both new media and textiles, for example, women’s artistic education, socially and politically engaged art, and many others.
Four scientists and researchers from Croatia will be participating in the programme. The conference will be inaugurated by a lecture by Leonida Kovač entitled Subversion of the normative heterosexuality in the self-representational works of Nasta Rojc. Their papaers will also present: Tihana Rubić and Ana Šeparović (The Construction of Gender in Interwar Photography: An Interdisciplinary View) and Ivor Glavaš (The figure of the woman author: Tatjana Ivančić).
The offcicial language of the conference is English.
The project is part of the Creative Europe program Not Yet Written Stories – Women Artists’ Archives Online (2020–2022).
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Conference programme/program konferencije
02. 09. 2021.
9.00 – 10.00
Leonida Kovač: Inaugural Lecture/uvodno predavanje
Panel 1
10.00 – 11.30
moderator: Marika Kuźmicz
Urška Savič Reflections on the Archive as Strategy for Re-writing Histories
Karolina Majewska-Güde Telling Stories about Feminist Art in Socialist Europe, or an Archive as a Place of Cross-Generational Re-doing
Tia Čiček Examining women’s roles at the ŠKUC Gallery in the 1980s
Wanda Janakiewicz Urszula Czartoryska as theoretician and founder of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art in Łódź
Panel 2
12.00 – 13.30
moderator: Andra Silapētere
Tatiana Bogacheva Social Reproduction in the Eastern European Art
Anne Pfautsch The Archive of Sibylle Bergemann: Questions of Memorialisation and Reinterpretation
Miha Colner Triple exclusion and fierce determination: Case Studies of Dragica Čadež & Duba Sambolec
Panel 3
14.30 – 16.30
moderator: Barbara Borčić
Kateryna Iakovlenko Art Between Manhood and Activism: Role of Ukrainian Women Artists During Political Transformations
Adele Bea Cipste and Ieva Melgalve Ways of Forgetting: The Faded Image of Women Artists in Periodicals of the Latvian SSR
Magdalena Worłowska Spiritual and Rational Witches – Ecological Art of Female Artists in The Polish People’s Republic
18.00
Screening of the performance/projekcija performansa: Dear Ladies, Thank you (2011-2013), Ana Čigon
03. 09. 2021.
Panel 1
9.00 – 10.30
moderator: Barbara Borčić
Slađana Petrović Varagić Archiving female performance in Yugoslavia – Dragana (Jovanović) Žarevac
Iliyana Nedkova Why Have There Been No Great Contemporary Bulgarian Women Artists?
Kateřina Štroblová There Is Nothing Like Women’s Art. Work, Positions and Emancipation of Female Artists in Czechoslovakia during the Normalisation Period
Panel 2
11.00 AM – 13.00
moderator: Marika Kuźmicz
Ivor Glavaš The figure of the woman author: Tatjana Ivančić
Łukasz Mojsak Between History and the Future. On Sonja Savić’s Videos
Panel 3
14.00 – 15.30
moderator: Andra Silapētere
Kata Balázs Little material, lot of thought Margit Szilvitzky and experimental textile / fibre art
Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni Unraveling the Fibre Art of Geta Brătescu
Johana Lomová Exclusion through specialisation Membership of Women Artists in the Czechoslovak Artists´ Union in the 1950´s and 1960´s and its consequences for writing art history
Eda Tuulberg The Abdomen is Over-Etched
Panel 4
16.00 – 17.30
moderator: Lana Lovrencić
Uschi Klein Picturing the female gaze: photography as a form of cultural resistance during Romania’s communist era
Maria Anna Rogucka Alina Ślesińska’s Self-awareness? Why and What Kind of Artist’s Image Creation through Photographs in Mass Printed Media?
Tihana Rubić & Ana Šeparović The Construction of Gender in Interwar Photography: An Interdisciplinary View
Šelda Puķīte & Indrek Grigor Silver girls: Retouched history of photography
19.00
Screening of the films/projekcija filmova
Sonja Savić
Play, 1997, 22’
Superreal (Superstvarnost), 1997, 57’
