Sapieha Palace Symposium 2025: "On Ageing".

On Saturday, March 8, 2025, Sapieha Palace will launch its first annual Sapieha Palace Symposium, an event designed to explore critical issues in art and culture in a comprehensive manner.

The theme of the inaugural symposium is “Ageing.” The symposium brings together an international group of art historians, sociologists, conservators, and artists who will examine the representation of ageing and ageing processes from various perspectives. Using feminist art history approaches, they will analyze the relationship between the work of women artists of advanced age and the materials they use, as well as questions surrounding the representation—or rather the impossibility of representation—of old age. Participants will discuss visions of the future and ageing in queer communities, and explore the subversive potential of queer ageing that disrupt normative temporalities. Finally, the symposium will delve into the question of temporal materials, including artworks and cultural heritage, examining how their deterioration challenges traditional institutional and thought structures.

Symposium Speakers:
Eglė Ambrasaitė, Jo Applin, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Kim Kraczon, Rebeka Põldsam, and Artūras Tereškinas.

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PROGRAMME
Saturday, March 8, 2025

10:30 Welcome and Coffee

11:00 Inesa Brašiškė: Introduction to Sapieha Palace Symposium 2025

11:20-12:00 Jo Applin: Ageing Badly in 1960s America

12:00-12:40 Julia Bryan-Wilson: Old Woman/Aged Wood

12:40-13:00 Coffee Break

13:00-13:40 Rebeka Põldsam: Imagining Queer Ageing Futures in Estonia

13:40-14:20 Artūras Tereškinas: Queer Failures and Radical Intimacies: Writing the Aging Queer Body

14:20-15:40 Lunch Break

15:40-16:20 Kim Kraczon: Inevitable Decay: Rethinking Frameworks for the Perpetuation of Art Objects

16:20-17:00 Eglė Ambrasaitė: Aikas Žado Laboratory – Crip Materialities

17:00-18:00 Roundtable
Participants: Eglė Ambrasaitė, Jo Applin, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Kim Kraczon, Rebeka Põldsam, Artūras Tereškinas, Edvinas Grinkevičius, Inesa Brašiškė, Neringa Černiauskaitė.

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Organized by Sapieha Palace
Curator: Inesa Brašiškė
Designer: Jonė Miškinytė
Translator: Paulius Balčytis
Copy editors: Gemma Lloyd, Dangė Vitkienė
Communication: Giedrė Ivanova, Luka Jefremovaitė, Danielius Radis
Technicians: Jokūbas Čižikas, Antoni Dombrovskij

- For further information please contact: inesacac.lt
- The event will be held in English, is free, and open to the public.
- More information visit: https://sapiegurumai.lt/en/events/sapieha-palace-symposium/