CONF 15.02.2020

Prisms of Silence (Tallinn, 21-22 Feb 20)

Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 21.–22.02.2020

Margaret Tali

On February 21–22, 2020, the Estonian Academy of Arts will host an international symposium titled “Prisms of Silence”. The symposium seeks to analyse and understand the prisms through which we could meaningfully reconsider significant silences. A particular interest lies in rethinking the silences about WWII, its aftermath and the Soviet era in order to explore how they could offer productive ways of understanding present social change.

The symposium is a part of the collaborative project “Communicating Difficult Pasts” between the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at EAA and the LCCA, it is curated by dr. Margaret Tali and Ieva Astahovska.

PROGRAM
Venue: Room A501, Estonian Academy of Arts,
Põhja puiestee 7, Tallinn

FRIDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2020
9:00–9:10 Welcome by Mart Kalm, Rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts

9:10–9:30 Introduction to the Symposium by Margaret Tali and Ieva Astahovska

9:30–11:00 Session 1: Absences, their Impacts and Memory Work, Moderated by Violeta Davoliūtė, Vilnius University

Asja Mandić, Suppression of Socialist Narratives of the Second World War and Its Modes of Visual Representation

Annika Toots, The Exhibition Displaced Time: 10 Photographs from Restricted Collections as a Model of Remembrance

Jan Miklas-Frankowski, A City of Amnesia: Marcin Kącki’s Białystok. White Power. Black Memory

11:00–11:30 Coffee break

11:30–13:00 Session 2: Difficult Knowledge and Artistic Interventions, Moderated by Ieva Astahovska

Margaret Tali, Thinking through Silence and Mental Health in Recent Documentary Film

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Nomadic Memory: Artivism as Everyday Feminist Antifascist Practice

Rasa Goštautaitė, Contested Soviet Legacy: The Case of the Petras Cvirka Monument in Vilnius, Lithuania

13:00–14:00 Lunch break

14:30–16:00 Guided tour in the Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

16:30–18:30 Session 3: When Sources Fail: Visual Languages for Analysing Past Trauma, Moderated by Margaret Tali

Assel Kadyrkhanova, Image, Sound, Absence, Silence: Artmaking on Historical Trauma

Lia Dostlieva, “I still feel sorry when I throw away food—Grandma used to tell me stories about the Holodomor.”

Kai Ziegner, A History of Violence

Aslan Gaisum, Realms of Memory and Sources of Resistance

18:30–19:30 Dinner at the Estonian Academy of Arts

SATURDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2019
9:30–10:15 Short keynote by Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Reconstruction of Contested History: Vilnius, 1939–1949, Introduced by Margaret Tali

10:15–11:45 Session 4: The Unspeakable and Agency, Moderated by Eneken Laanes, Tallinn University

Katrina Black, Absence as Form: Spaces of Articulation in the Work of Chantal Akerman

Kati Roover, Project Red

Jaana Kokko, Oral History and Moving Image

11:45–12:15 Coffee break

12.15–13.45 Session 5: Patterns of Muting and Silencing, Moderated by Siobhan Kattago, University of Tartu

Franziska Link, Brawling Silences: Rereading Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Écrits Maudits

Mischa Twitchin, Refracting Implication: The Uses of Silence

Jan Matonoha, Dispositives of Silence: Injurious Attachments and the Discursive Emergence of Silencing; “Missing” Gender in Czech Dissent Samizdat and Exile Literature

13:45–14:45 Lunch break

14:45–16:15 Session 6: Breaking Silences and Challenges to Changing Discourses, Moderated by Ilya Lensky, Museum “Jews in Latvia”

Shelley Hornstein, Architecture’s Dirty Little Secrets

Ieva Astahovska, On Collaborations, Silences and Lustration

Maayan Raveh, The Implication of Silence—the Promised Land in Palestinian Christian Theology

16:15–17:00 Coffee break

17:00–18:30 Session 7: There and Not There—Ways of Giving Voice to the Past, Moderated by Pille Runnel, Estonian National Museum

Elina Niiranen, Finnish Linguist Pertti Virtaranta and Silenced Identity of Karelians in 1960’s Soviet Karelia

Paulina Pukytė, Repetition of Silence

Elisabeth Kovtiak, (Non-)sites of Memory of the Holocaust in Belarus: The Cases of Minsk and Brest

18:30–19:00 Final discussion and conclusions

19:00–20:00 Dinner at the Estonian Academy of Arts

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Prisms of Silence (Tallinn, 21-22 Feb 20). In: ArtHist.net, 15.02.2020. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/22649>.

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