In Art We Trust – Polish Version 2020
As part of the Eu4art project, the online event “In Art We Trust – Polish Version 2020” is being offered, which will take place on 3/12/2020 on the Zoom platform.
Students and lecturers interested in participating can write by 2/12/2020 to r.trotti@abaroma.it
This is a conversation with art historian Joanna Kiliszek on the art scene in Poland and emerging organisations.
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The same mistake should not be made twice. In 2019, after four years of destruction of civil society and culture, Polish society elected a nationalist-conservative government for the second time.
It is difficult to specify an area where the balance of four years of rule by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) would be as clearly negative as in culture – perhaps apart from the reforms of Minister Ziobro’s judicial system. The rule of the Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage – Mr Gliński – means constant conflict, attempts at censorship, incompetent takeover and destruction of the institutions that have functioned so far.
Theatre and literature were the first to be demolished, then museums, especially historical ones and international cooperation. This was followed by the field of film. In the end, in 2019, censorship came into play against contemporary art and art centres, as well as against universities, including art academies.
How does Polish contemporary visual art operate now? How can we look for new and alternative forms of work? In the last years of the undemocratic rule of the Law and Justice Party, no new, visible cultural creative environment was created on the right. This makes it all the more important to observe new phenomena in contemporary art in Poland, and new from the action. In this lecture, we will look at the practices of Polish contemporary art, which is in a state of emergency.
Join the event via Zoom | Thursday 3/12/2020 | 5 pm (Rome, Budapest, Dresden = 6 pm Riga time)