Lectures and personal consultations for FFA PhD students with Maja and Reuben Fowkes and Elke Krasny
During November and December 2023, within the framework of doctoral studies, special seminars and lectures by international guests will take place. In addition to two blocks of intensive seminars for PhD students, FFA also offers the opportunity for personal consultations on dissertation topics with art historians and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes (UK) and Elke Krasny (AT).
Consultations will be held on Thursday, 23 November 2023 (Maja and Reuben Fowkes) and on Wednesday, 6 December 2023 (Elke Krasny), in the form of discussions over the portfolio and consultations on specific methodological or artistic issues of FFA PhD students.
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. www.translocal.org
Elke Krasny, PhD, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Krasny focuses on concerns of care, reproductive labor, social and environmental justice, commemorative practices and transnational feminisms in architecture, infrastructures, urbanism, and the arts. Krasny was a fellow at the CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her curatorial work on hands-on urbanism was shown at the 2012 Venice Biennale for Architecture. Together with Angelika Fitz she edited Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (MIT Press, 2019). Her book Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care (transcript publishers, 2023) focuses on militarized care essentialism and feminist recovery plans in pandemic times. www.elkekrasny.at
Lectures and personal consultations 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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