SOCIALEAST
Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe

SEMINAR NO.2 - ART AND DOCUMENTARY
Ludwig Museum Budapest
Friday 10 November 2006 12-6pm

PROGRAMME

12.00 Welcome: Reuben Fowkes (MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University)

12.05 Socialist Memory Film Screening Part I:
Anri Sala, Intervista, 1998 (25 min)

12.30 Lynda Morris (Norwich School of Art and Design)
'Picasso: Peace or Freedom: Sheffield Peace Congress 1950'

13.00 Anton Lederer (Rotor Graz)
'Don't trust the pictures. Some examples of manipulation in art'

13.30 Eva Forgacs (Pasadena Art Centre for Design)
'Documenting Socialism and its Culture'

14.00 Discussion
Lead by Jim Aulich (MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University)

14.20 Break
Refreshments

15.00 Bojana Peji* (Curator, Berlin)
'The Production of the Unknown Heroine'

15.30 Angela Harutyunyan (University of Manchester)
'Collective Memory Fragmented: Public Symbols and Political Power in Minsk'

16.00 Discussion
Lead by Reuben Fowkes (MIRIAD MMU)

16.20 Socialist Memory Film Screening Part II
Introduced by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal.org)

Zbynek Baladran (Czech Republic), Working Process, 2004 (9 min)
Arturas Raila (Lithuania), The Girl is Innocent, 1999 (17 min)
Goran Devi* (Croatia), Imported Crows, 2005 (22 min)
Johanna Billing (Sweden) Magical World, 2005 (6.12 min)

17.40 Final Discussion
Lead by János Sugár ( Academy of Fine Arts Budapest)

18.00 End of programme in Ludwig Museum

18.30 Private View of Revolution is not a Garden Party
Trafó Gallery, Liliom utca 41, IX District, Budapest

The SocialEast research forum considers the art and visual culture of
Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the
Berlin Wall, through collaborative projects, exhibitions and seminars. The
project is organised by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University in
collaboration with Pasts Inc. Central European University, Ludwig Museum of
Contemporary Art Budapest, the Institute of Art History Zagreb and
www.artmargins.com

For more details contact the project organiser Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email to
r.fowkes@mmu.ac.uk or see the project website www.socialeast.org

Although there is no charge for attending this seminar, please reserve your
place by filling in the booking form on the SocialEast Forum website
www.socialeast.org