The Kumu Art Museum’s fall conference 2015
In cooperation with the Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of
Arts
Conference programme:
Thursday, 22 October
17.30 Registration
18.00–20.00
Opening words
Anu Liivak, Director of the Kumu Art Museum
Sirje Helme, Director-General of the Art Museum of Estonia
Introduction
Anu Allas, Kumu Art Museum
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Romy Golan (City University of New York)
Synthesis Undone
Chair Epp Lankots
Friday, 23 October
10.00–12.00 Ideologies for the Synthesis of the Arts
Chair Linda Kaljundi
Nikolas Drosos (Columbia University, New York)
Applied and Useful Art: The Discourse on the Synthesis of the Arts in
the USSR and Poland during the 1950s
Virve Sarapik (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts)
Visualising World War III
Stella Pelše (Latvian Academy of Art)
The Best of the Past on a New Level: Synthesis of the Arts in the
Latvian Art Criticism of the 1970s
12.00–12.30 Coffee break
12.30–14.00 Experimentation as Critique
Chair Lolita Jablonskiene
Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal Institute Budapest)
Putting the Social back into the Socialist City: The Critical Urban
Practice of the Group TOK
Māra Traumane (Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Zurich)
“Doubts on Art” as a Constructive Project: the Case of the “Unfelt
Feelings Restoration Workshop”
14.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Dynamics of Collaborative Work
Chair Klara Kemp-Welch
Eleonora Farina (Free University of Berlin)
Ex Oriente Lux: Ion Grigorescu and the Sigma Group in Socialist Romania
Tomasz Załuski (University of Łódz)
From Praxeology to the Artists of Other Arts Association: The
Integration of Arts and Transmediality in KwieKulik’s “Activities”
Matteo Bertelé (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
From Narcissus to Collective Performances: The Work of Valera and
Natasha Cherkashin
17.00–17.30 Coffee break
17.30–18.30 EVENING LECTURE
László Beke (Budapest)
Chair Liisa Kaljula
How to Construct a New Theory of East European Art?
Saturday, 24 October
10.00–12.00 Monumental, Ritual and Communal Spaces
Chair Ingrid Ruudi
Marija Martinovic and Mladen Pesic (Belgrad University)
Synthesis of Arts and Architecture: Community Centres in Socialist
Belgrade
Raino Isto (University of Maryland)
Dynamisms of Time and Space: The Synthesis of Architecture and
Monumental Sculpture in Socialist Albania’s Martyrs’ Cemeteries
Marija Dremaite (Vilnius University)
Architecture of the Soviet Ritual – Wedding and Funeral Palaces in
Soviet Lithuania
12.00–12.30 Coffee break
12.30–14.00 Debating All-Encompassing Art
Chair Anu Allas
Fabiola Bierhoff (Free University of Berlin)
Multimedia Art in the German Democratic Republic: the Art Festival
Intermedia (1985)
Elnara Taidre (Art Museum of Estonia; Institute of Art History,
Estonian Academy of Arts)
Synthesis of Visual Art Forms as the Total Work of Art: The Case of
Tõnis Vint’s Art Practices in Soviet Estonia
14.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Translations and Adaptations
Chair Romy Golan
Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Poetry Beyond Borders
Ksenya Gurshtein (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow,
Washington, DC)
Conceptual Artists, Cognitive Film: Artists as Film-makers at the
Balázs Béla Studio
Amy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen)
The Adoption and Adaptation of Institutional Critique in Eastern Europe
17.00–17.30 Coffee break
17.30–19.00 FINAL DISCUSSION
Romy Golan, Klara Kemp-Welch, Anu Allas, Epp Lankots
Additional information:
Anu Allas
anu.allas@ekm.ee
Tel. +3726026056
Mob. +37253403356
Kumu kunstimuuseum / Kumu Art Museum
Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
10127 Tallinn
The conference is supported by Eesti Kultuurkapital.