UMPRUM Online // EAST–SOUTH. S Janou Ndiaye Beránkovou o Ateliéru hostujícího umělce
Lektorkou Ateliéru s hostujícím umělcem byla v zimním semestru 2023/2024 Jana Ndiaye Beránková, filozofka a teoretička architektury – ateliér se tedy poprvé stal Ateliérem hostující teoretičky.
Jakou optikou v ateliéru nahlíželi na téma “Východ – Jih: Mezinárodní výměny mezi střední a východní Evropou a Afrikou”? Jaký byl dopad tohoto dialogu na umění v období studené války? Promítají se tyto vlivy i do současné multidisciplinární praxe?
Vše se dočtete v rozhovoru Jany Ndiaye Beránkové s Vítem Novákem z Katedry teorie a dějin umění.
Foto: Slávka Sobotovičová
We would like to invite you to the last of the semester-long series of lectures “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa”
ŁUKASZ STANEK:
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
TODAY – December 18, 2023
6–7:30 p.m.
Auditorium of TC UMPRUM
Mikulandská 134/5, 110 00, Prague 1
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Łukasz Stanek is Professor of Architectural History at Taubman College. Stanek authored Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2020). His edited volumes include Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2014) and Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Ashgate, 2014, with Ákos Moravánszky and Christian Schmid). Before the University of Michigan, Stanek taught at the ETH Zurich, Harvard University GSD, and the University of Manchester. He was a fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington DC), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), the Institute d’Urbanisme (Paris), and the University of Ghana at Legon (Accra). He received his Master of Architecture from Kraków University of Technology, Master of Philosophy from the Jagiellonian University (Kraków) and his PhD from Delft University of Technology.
TEREZA STEJSKALOVÁ:
Closer Than Diplomats. Third-World Students in Czechoslovakia.
November 23, 2023
6–7:30 p.m.
Auditorium of TCM UMPRUM
Mikulandská 134/5
Free Entry, in English
Lecture organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”
The project is funded by EU.
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Tereza Stejskalová is a critic and curator. Between 2012-2015 she worked as an art editor of the biweekly cultural magazine A2. She co-founded the online daily news site A2larm. Since 2015 she has been working as a curator of tranzit.cz and in 2019 she was appointed as its Programme Director. She has contributed numerous texts to books, catalogues, art magazines and web sites. She has presented her curatorial / artistic projects at the National Gallery Prague; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin; Biennale Warszawa and Gwangju Biennale. Together with Barbora Kleinhamplová she published a book of interviews entitled Who is an Artist? (2015). In 2014 she received The Věra Jirousová Award for established art critics. She is a lecturer on contemporary art at FAMU in Prague.
𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄: 𝐌𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐅
Street Wall Painting and the Performing Culture: Arts and Citizenship in Dakar at the End of the 20th Century
November 16, 2023
6–7:30 p.m.
Auditorium of TCM UMPRUM
Mikulandská 134/5
Free Entry, in English
Lecture organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”
The project is funded by EU.
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Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and the Director of Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Before joining the faculty at Columbia University, he was the Charles D. Moody Jr. Collegiate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Michigan, from 2000 to 2007. Before that, he was Head of the Research, Information, and Documentation Department of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and faculty member of the History Department of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. His research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa.
Cheikh Ndiaye and Vanessa Van Obberghen: ART PRACTICE IN AFRICA, CHEIKH ANTA DIOP AND THE MARKETS OF DAKAR
November 6, 2023
6–7:30 p.m.
UMPRUM Technology Center
Mikulandská 134/5
Praha 1-New Town
Free Entry, in English
Lecture organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”
The project is funded by EU
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Vanessa Van Obberghen uses different media to reflect upon questions such as perception, migration and integration. Her works are concerned with the role of the 'document,' and the misunderstandings that arise when these come to be translated. This way Van Obberghen makes the glances and points-of-view themselves into the subject of her observations. In her oeuvre, Van Obberghen create space and time for viewers to call their own prejudices into question. Vanessa van Obberghen has been traveling to Dakar for several years. In her work, for the most part photographs and multi-media installations, she investigates transcultural exchange.
Cheikh Ndiaye is particularly interested in architecture, urban planning, and cinema. Composed of paintings, photography, and installations, his body of work is guided by a singular gaze to the informal economies of African metropolis. The artist lives and works in New York, Prague and Dakar. He graduated from the National School of fine Arts in Dakar and the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France. He has participated in numerous exhibitions across Africa and Europe namely Hippocampus at La Maréchalerie in Versailles in 2017 and in his solo exhibitions at the Galerie Cécile Fakhoury and Jason Haam. His work is a part of the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRAC, Grand-Large-Hauts-de-France, CNAP and Kadist Art Foundation. His work was exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Dak’Art Biennale (2012, 2016, and 2018) and Havana Biennale (2019). Most recently, Ndiaye's work was included in Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque at Fondazione Prada in Milan, Italy.
Another of The Visiting Artist Studio Lectures, which is going to take place this Friday:
TERRI GEIS:
Ted Joans Exquiste Corpse: Surrealism, Africa, and Central Europe
Terri Geis is an art historian, independent curator and lecturer. She is an expert on the art of Surrealist women artists and the intersections between Surrealism and American cultures. She studied in the UK: her BA at the University of St Andrews, her MA at Trinity College Dublin and her PhD at the University of Essex.
Her projects include "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with Ilene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq) and "My Goddesses and My Monsters': Maria Martins and Surrealism in the 1940s," in Debates on Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo Muerto (Getty Research Institute). She writes and publishes in professional circles, and her well-known texts include the essays "Great Impulses and New Paths: VVV, Surrealism, and the Black Atlantic" (Revue Miranda, Université Toulouse, 2017), "Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales" (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2018), and the collection of essays "The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism" (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
October 20, 2023
6–7.30 pm
Auditorium of TCM UMPRUM
Mikulandská 134/5
Free Entry. The lecture will be held in English.
Organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”
The project is funded by EU
The UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio invites you to the lecture
Manthia Diawara:
Non-Aligned African Cinema. From Sembène to Sissako
Manthia Diawara is a filmmaker, theorist and art historian. He was born in Mali. He received his primary and secondary education in France, and later completed a Master of Arts degree at American University, Washington and a PhD at Indiana University. He teaches at New York University. Previously, he lectured at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
Diawara has made significant contributions to research on African diaspora culture. He is the curator of the 2023 Sharjah Biennial. His extensive academic and creative practice elaborates on the politics of postcolonialism, decolonization, migration and globalization.
October 19, 2023
6–7.30 pm
Auditorium of TCM UMPRUM
Mikulandská 134/5
Free Entry. The lecture will be held in English.
Organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”
The project is funded by EU
♦️We are presenting the program of the UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio in the 2023/2024 fall semester
🔸East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa
This course questions the exchanges between the countries of the Eastern Bloc and the newly independent African states; it studies the impact this transnational dialogue had on the art production during the Cold War era.
🔸The UMPRUM Visiting Artist for the 2023/2024 fall semester is the art and architecture theorist, philosopher, writer and publisher JANA NDIAYE BERANKOVA
The studio is connected to a lecture series including prominent international artists, scholars, curators, and filmmakers: Manthia Diawara, Terri Geis, Vanessa van Obberghen, Luc Tuymans, Mamadou Diouf, Łukasz Stanek
Application deadline is September 11th 2023
For more information see umprum.cz
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♦️Představujeme program Ateliéru s hostujícím umělcem UMPRUM v zimním semestru 2023/24
🔸Východ-Jih: Mezinárodní výměny mezi střední a východní Evropou a Afrikou
Kurs bude zkoumat kulturní výměnu mezi zeměmi bývalého východního bloku a africkými státy s nově nabytou nezávislostí ve druhé polovině 20. století. Předmětem studia je i dopad tohoto dialogu na umění v období studené války a jeho současný vývoj.
🔸Hlavní hostující lektorkou UMPRUM v zimním semestru 2023/24 bude teoretička architektury a umění, filosofka, publicistka a nakladatelka JANA NDIAYE BERANKOVA
Dalšími přizvanými hosty semestru budou umělci a teoretici Manthia Diawara, Terri Geis, Vanessa van Obberghen, Luc Tuymans, Mamadou Diouf, Łukasz Stanek.
Uzávěrka přihlášek: 11. 9. 2023
Více informací na umprum.cz
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