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          Seminar

          Where the West Ends?

          18–19 March 2010

          Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw (PL)

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      2. Thursday 18 March 2010

        09.45
        Introduction
        Joanna Mytkowska and Marta Dziewańska


        SESSION 1: WHERE THE WEST ENDS

        10.00
        Keynote
        Boris Groys

        11.30
        David Riff : Autonomy in Russian art

        12.00
        Ekaterina Degot: Russian art: a cultural exception?

        12.30
        Discussion on Russian art in a global context
        Boris Groys, Ekaterina Degot, David Riff, chaired by Claire Bishop


        SESSION 2: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: POST-SOVIET/POST-COLONIAL

        14.30
        Short presentations and panel discussion

        Alexei Penzin: Post-Soviet Singularity and Codes of Cultural Translation

        Olga Bryukhovetska: Blind Spot of the ‘Post-Soviet Condition

        Keti Chukhrov: Different Wests and their Communist “Other”

        16.45
        Screening and discussion
        Olga Chernysheva

      3. Wednesday 10 March 2010

        SESSION 3: ART PRACTICES, EXHIBITIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

        10.00
        Sarah Wilson: Olga Chernysheva: Tenderness and Danger

        10.30
        Ilya Budraitskis: To the Reversion of History: Russian Politics and Political Art in the 1990s, 2000s and After 

        11.15
        Nadim Samman: Go West!



        SESSION 4: CONNECTIONS TO EASTERN EUROPE
        Chair: Joanna Mytkowska

        14.15
        Tomas Pospiszyl: National revivals and avant-garde in Eastern Europe. An attempt at a meaningful parallel

        14.45
        Edit Andras: Public monuments in changing societies

        15.15
        Inke Arns: Avant-garde in the Rear-View Mirror: From Utopia under General Suspicion to a New Notion of the Utopian
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