No
Feeling Is Final: Art and Solidarity is a two-day symposium, which will
explore the complex histories of various international solidarity art
collections and campaigns in the context of the Cold War and their legacies
today. The symposium is organised in connection with the exhibition No Feeling
Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection on view at the National Gallery
in Prague and the Lidice Gallery in Lidice.
The
programme will take place in English.
Saturday,
21 September 2024, 14:00–17:30 / Trade
Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague
The first
day of the symposium will focus on three historical solidarity collections
established in the 1960s and 1970s: the Skopje solidarity collection, which is
the subject of the exhibition No Feeling Is Final at the National
Gallery in Prague and the Lidice Gallery, the collection for the Museo de la
Solidaridad (Museum of Solidarity) in Chile, and the collection intended for a
future "museum
in solidarity" for Palestine. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A.
14:00 Guided tour of No Feeling Is Final. The
Skopje Solidarity Collection with the curator Rado Ištok (First floor)
15:30 Coffee break (Korzo)
16:00 Art and Solidarity. Part 1: Solidarity Art
Collections (Korzo)
o Jovanka Popova (Museum of Contemporary Art,
Skopje): All That Happened Will Happen Today. Museum of Contemporary Art –
Skopje and its Solidarity Collection
o María Berríos (MACBA,
Barcelona): "Struggle as Culture". The Museum of Solidarity,
1971–1973
o Rasha Salti (independent
curator, Marseille): Past Disquiet. The International Art Exhibition for
Palestine, 1978
17:00 Discussion and Q&A
The event
is organised with the support of the Instituto Cervantes in Prague.
Sunday, 22 September 2024, 14:00–17:30 / Lidice Gallery, Lidice Memorial
The
second day of the symposium will explore various forms of grassroots as well as
state-managed solidarity movements and campaigns during the Cold War,
addressing the relations between socialist Europe, the Global South, and beyond
from the perspectives of Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A.
14:00 Guided tours of the exhibition No Feeling
Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection with the curator Miloslav Vorlíček
and of Nikita Kadan’s curatorial intervention in the Lidice Art Collection (as
part of the Biennale Matter of Art 2024) with the curator Aleksei Borisionok
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Art and Solidarity. Part 2: Cold War
Solidarities
o Bojana Piškur (Moderna
galerija, Ljubljana): Solidarities within the Non-Aligned Movement
o Eszter Szakács (independent
curator, Amsterdam): Cold War Solidarities. State-Managed and Grassroots, or
the Question of the Archive
o Magda Lipska (Museum of Modern
Art, Warsaw): Hope Is of a Different Color. From the Global South to the
Lodz Film School
17:00 Discussion and Q&A
