[spectre] Fwd: xYu... CONF: Abstract Socialism, Barcelona, Fundació Tàpies 4-22 May 2016

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Abstract Socialism:
conferences and artistic projects

May 4–22, 2016

Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Aragó 255
08007 Barcelona
T +34 934 870 315

http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/spip.php?article8516&var

Programme of conferences and artistic projects on the current and past
uses of modern art arising from the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia. Curated by Oriol Fontdevila. Abstract Socialism is the
second part of  Performing the Museum project.

May 4, 6pm
Presentation programme and conversation with the artists
With Jasmina Cibic, Fokus Grupa and Søren Thilo Funder
Free admission—Auditorium. Limited places

May 4, 6:30pm / May 11 and 18, 5:30pm
Programme of projections
Featuring works by Jasmina Cibic, Søren Thilo Funder and Doplgenger
Free admission—Auditorium. Limited places

May 13, 5pm / May 14, 8pm
Lectures
With Andreja Hribernik, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Dalibor Martinis, Aleksandra
Sekulić, Barbara Steiner and Ana Dević from What, How & for Whom/WHW
Free admission—Auditorium. Limited places

May 4–22
Artistic intervention
Fokus Grupa in Antoni Tàpies. Collection, 1955–65/
Permanent Collection. Level 1.


Abstract Socialism
During the early years of the Cold War, the Socialist Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia took an unexpected stand in relation to modern art.
Artists and intellectuals embraced abstract art, while the country's
cultural policy also saw it as a possibility for educating the people
and for social progress. Yugoslavia distanced itself from the Soviet
Union's condemnation of abstraction, yet was never totally behind the
formalist ideas currently fashionable in North America.

The Yugoslav context has contributed to later generations of artists
questioning the basis of what has been called socialist modernity. Yet
it also seems that the principle of utopia that nourished this project
has never ceased to be recognised and is received as an inheritance with 
which to challenge the amnesiac state informing museums and the cultural 
neoliberal policies of today.

Abstract Socialism is a programme of conferences and artistic projects
on the current and past uses of modern art arising from the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It focuses on contemporary art practices 
that establish alliances with this legacy, albeit in a disruptive key, 
as well as historiographical accounts pointing to a critical review of 
the political and cultural initiatives that previously served to promote 
modern and progressive art.