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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11313/
Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary arts, is pleased to announce "East & East: Divergent Readings in Culture and Politics," an evening symposium on Thursday, November 3, 2005 from 6:30-8:00pm. There is always an "Eastern version" and a "Western version" to the same story, as well as different versions of the same story inside the "East". This evening symposium will feature presentations by artists whose work is indicative of the divergent tendencies and heterogenity of Central and East European cultural and political systems. The evening will be moderated by Lorand Hegyi and introduced by Osvaldo Romberg.
This symposium has been organized in conjunction with “CONFLICT: Perspectives, Positions, Realities in Central European Art,” an exhibition on display at Slought Foundation from November 4-December 31, 2005 and curated by Lorand Hegyi, director of Le Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France. The curator and select participating artists will be present for the public reception on Friday, November 4th, 2005 from 6:30-8:30pm. More information on the exhibition is available online: http://slought.org/content/11310/
The following artist will be present for the symposium:
Nebojsa Seric Soba (lives in New York and Sarajevo)
Lorand Hegyi (born in Hungary; currently resides in France) is one of the foremost European curators and art historians. He is currently the director of Le Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne. He is the former director of the Museum Moderner Kunst / Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, and founding director of the new Centre Arte Contemporanea in Naples. Hegyi is a respected critic specializing in modern and contemporary art from Central and East Europe (such as Ilya Kabakov, Marina Abramovic, Braco Dimitrijevic, Hermann Nitsch, Franz West, and Roman Opalka), and the author of numerous publications on contemporary art and cultural criticism. His publications include "New Sensibility - Change of Paradigm in Contemporary Art" (Budapest, 1993), "Roman Opalka's Places" (Prestel, 2000), and "The Courage to Be Alone - Re-inventing of Narratives in Contemporary Art" (Charta, 2004). Lorand Hegyi was co-curator of the Venice Biennial in 1993; artistic director of the Sculpture Triennial of Stuttgart in 1995; and curator of the Valencia Biennial 2003. He has previously lectured at Slought Foundation as part of the 2005 Hermann Nitsch retrospective exhibition, and on "Politics in France and the New European Art Scene".
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of a professional development grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a granting program of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by The University of the Arts.
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