Lectures in Moravian Gallery: Alexandra Pirici, Maja & Reuben Fowkesovi, Wednesday 22 Nov 2023 19:00

FFA BUT and the Moravian Gallery invite you to the first of a series of lectures with discussion.
Wednesday 22 November 2023, 7 pm, Museum of Applied Arts – Moravian Gallery, Husova 14, Brno – FB event

ALEXANDRA PIRICI (RO): Artist-talk

Alexandra Pirici is an artist and choreographer considered to be one of the leading figures in the field of contemporary performance art. In her talk she will discuss some recent examples of her practice in relation to public space, memory and memorials, more-than-human collaborators and sources of inspiration, while also speaking about her recent research into self-organizing systems and the continuum between the animate and the inanimate – as both metaphor and scientific fact.

MAJA AND REUBEN FOWKES (UK): Beyond East-Eurocentrism: Multiple Worlds of the Socialist Anthropocene

The planetary scale of anthropogenic climate disruption calls for the rethinking of practices, epistemologies and histories to uncover the interconnected roots of the crisis and face up to its magnitude. Situating the unfolding of the Anthropocene across socialist territories entails going beyond regionalism to think systematically about the conflicted legacies of the socialist way of organizing nature. What is the contribution of contemporary art and art history in unravelling the contradictions, revealing the multiplicities and activating the potentialities of the Socialist Anthropocene?

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Alexandra Pirici, born in 1982 in Bucharest, is a trained dancer and choreographer. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally. She participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017) and the 9th Berlin Biennale (2016). In 2018, she had a solo presentation at the New Museum in New York. In 2022, she showed Encyclopedia of Relations at the Venice Biennale – a work that takes inspiration from symbiotic or parasitic interactions as seen in biology and botany, as well as those negotiated in more abstract relations – between humans and technology, rocks and waves, plants and animals. Alexandra Pirici has recently taken up a professorship for performance at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

Maja and Reuben Fowkes are art historians, curators and co-directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. Their publications include Art and Climate Change (Thames & Hudson, 2022), Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (Thames & Hudson, 2020), Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar (Sternberg Press, 2021), The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism (CEU Press, 2015) and a special issue of Third Text entitled Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism (2018). Recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions Colliding Epistemes at Bozar Brussels (2022) and Potential Agrarianism at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021). Their Horizon Europe project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts is supported by a UKRI Frontier Research grant.

Lectures will take place with the financial participation of the European Union's National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

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