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How can art depict subtle transitions? Come to the workshop on tomorrow

A workshop brings together Czech and international academics and artists concerned with art's role in preserving, transmitting, and transforming memory.

The workshop's topic is "subtle transformations": subtle processes and changes in the cultural, social, or natural environment. In contrast to major events, which are frequently commemorated and have a fixed place in cultural memory, 'subtle transformations' result from more long-term, less visible processes. In this context, art is approached as a unique platform that, through its affective power and multiplicity of expressive means, allows these transformations (or their experience) to be meaningfully captured and expressed in a concrete form.

As the workshop venue is Prague, most of the contributions will focus on examples of art and artistic practice reflecting the transformations and dynamics of memory in the environment of Central and Eastern Europe.

The workshop will be held in English.

Organizers:

Branislava Kuburović (School of Art and Design, Prague City University),

Irena Řehořová (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

Ondřej Váša (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

Speakers:

Olga Bubich, Rebecca Harris, Michal Kindernay, Branislava Kuburović, Jan Miklas-Frankowski, Zofia Przybysz, Zofia Rohozińska, Ishrat Shaheen, Astrid Schmetterling, Denisa Tomková, Mischa Twitchin, Jiří Žák.