Time plan:
1. 4:00 – 4:20 PM
WELCOMING GUESTS / OPENING REMARKS
Peter Györi (President of Bejt Praha – The Open Prague Jewish Community, Prague, CZ)
Yasha Rozov (Graphic artist, curator and lecturer at the Holon Institute of Technology and Shenkar College in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, IL)
Tamara Moyzes (Visual artist and independent curator, Prague CZ)
2. 4:30 – 9:00 PM
PRESENTATIONS & DEBATE *
All presenters will be given 15 minutes for introducing their work. Emphasis will be made on art as social practice as it is exercised in the work of the invited artists and theorists, with a special focus on personal and collective identities, experiences, and sensitivities.
The title DOOR is a metaphor suggesting a multiple reading. Omitting the obvious lexical value of the word that constitutes the common ground of our experience shared through language, the cultural references refining our sensitivities may vary: when coming in, one would always first press, while the other would pull, one may expect a mezuzah on the right side of the doorframe, while the other may feel an irresistible urge not to hand anything over the threshold... Most of this behavior is subliminal and reflexive, most of it is culturally determined. Slightly exaggerating, even the act as simple as encountering / passing one another in a doorway may constitute questions that we would like to focus on in the proposed debate, i. a.: How are we imagining, defining, (re/de/pre)constructing, performing, and asserting our identities and cultural belonging? What are our cultural fantasies, taboos, and realities? Can we face, confront or suppress them? Can we invent them anew? What are the patterns and economies of our re-presentations and stereotyping of Others? And last but not least: What delineates the boundaries of our personal freedom and responsibility?
Let’s imagine that there is nothing behind and in front of our imaginary DOOR. As if the place, amalgamating the beginning and the end (entrance and exit), stood by itself in a free open space. As if it was a gate in which two Others meet on their constant move between Diversity and Respect (Dispersion and Re-Encounter).
Whereas short Q&As will take place between individual presentations, the main discussion will be reserved for the closing panel.
Moderator:
Misha Sidenberg (Art historian and visual arts curator at the Jewish Museum in Prague, CZ)
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE:
4:30 – 4:45 PM Skupina Haje
4:50 – 5:05 PM Umelec
5:10 – 5:25 PM Pavlina Morganova
5:30 – 5:45 PM OPIM
5:50 – 6:05 PM Yasha Rozov
BREAK / DRINKS / PERFORMANCES:
Jezek & Cizek
Podebal
6:50 – 7:05 PM Podebal
7:10 – 7:25 PM Zbigniew Libera
7:30 – 7:45 PM Ludek Rathousky
7:50 – 8:05 PM Milan Mikulastik
8:05 – 9:00 PM CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION
All presenters + Jiri David and Milan Salak
9:00 – 9:25 PM Performance by Darina Alster
3. 9.30-12 PM Party:
Dj Gadjo Skalalai (Radio1 Ethnopunx)
Live support Pepino B- Brass Tornado