2013-06-23
Panslavisms - a five day exhibition, presenting Polish - Lithuanian relations and the regional tensions, accompanied by a confrence and a film, starts June 26th


PANSLAVISMS

EXHIBITION + CONFERENCE + FILM PROGRAM

Opening: June 26, 18.00–21.00

Conference: June 27, 17.00–21.00

Former Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Nowy Świat 6/12, Warsaw


Exhibition Arnas Anskaitis (Vilnius), Levan Chogoshvili (Tbilisi), Linas Jablonskis (Vilnius), Dagna Jakubowska (Warszawa), Nana Kipiani (Tbilisi), Aleksander Komarow (Minsk), Juozas Laivys (Plungė), Artūras Raila (Vilnius), Janek Simon (Kraków-Warszawa), Slavs & Tatars (Euroazja).

Curated by Virginija Januškevičiūtė and Joanna Warsza

One of the basic criticisms towards Edward Said’s Orientalism concerns the fact that the author examines the relations between the so-called the first and the third world, omitting the territories of half-peripheries such as Central Europe. The understanding how the colonial and postcolonial forces have been played in the cultural territories between Poland and its Slavic and non-Slavic neighbors offer the way to reread the post-soviet and post-communist condition, the ideology of the border territories nostalgically called ‘Kresy’, constructs of westocentrism  or panslavism or the hidden agendas of so-called Eastern Partnership.

A five days exhibition, looking at both Polish-Lithuanian relations and the regional tensions, accompanied by a conference and a film program is taking place in the restored part of the former Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, the same building where a military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact (“Union of peace and socialism”) was signed by eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 1955. 

Transdisciplinary  conference Pan-Slav(e)ism – Learning Modernity from Central and Eastern Europe

Speakers: Daniel Beauvois (Paris), Andrzej Leder (Warsaw), Alexander Kiossev (Sofia), Anna Sosnowska (Warsaw)

Curated by Jan Sowa

The project is preceded by a book presentation by Slavs & Tatars Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi'ite Showbiz, moderated by Joanna Warsza

Museum of Modern Art, Pańska 3, Warsaw: 25.06. 19.00 Exhibition is open:

June 26–28, 17.00–21.00

June 29–30, 10.00–17.00



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