[spectre] Fwd: CONF: Identity Crisis Network (Zagreb, 23-24 May 25)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Luja Šimunović
Date: May 17, 2025
Subject: CONF: Identity Crisis Network (Zagreb, 23-24 May 25)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, May 23–24, 2025

The first international conference organized under the research project 
Identity Crisis Network will take place in Zagreb! Following the open 
call, we have invited twenty scholars, curators, artists, and other 
individuals and collectives to join in the conversation that seeks to 
challenge established notions of identity and subjectivity in 
contemporary art and culture.

In the past few decades, the concept of identity has been marked as a 
fixed political determination. Given the term’s inherent fluidity, 
diversity, multiplicity, and ambiguity, attempts to narrowly define it 
have proven restrictive, stretching its boundaries and ultimately 
causing them to burst. Practices aimed at making marginalized groups 
visible in the art world have often led to compartmentalization or 
tokenization, deepening polarization and provoking culture wars within 
art institutions, as well as outside them. This position opens up space 
for questioning the very foundations of contemporary art practices and 
their potential to generate transformative experiences beyond normative 
and constraining limits. The Identity Crisis Network conference seeks to 
explore whether it is possible to move beyond established identity 
categories and simplified labels, both in cultural and political 
discourse. We aim to engage with these issues not through a one-sided 
critique but by examining the potential to generate change within the 
realm of art. Through this conference, we reflect on the philosophical, 
institutional, aesthetic, and political landscape we inhabit as artists, 
curators, and theorists, intending to envision new spaces where 
potential and contingent outcomes can emerge.

Keynote speakers: Jack Halberstam (Columbia University), Anna Longo 
(Paris 1–Panthéon-Sorbonne), Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser 
University), Simon O'Sullivan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Selected speakers: Bill Balaskas, Salim Bayri, Mark Cinkevich, Hana 
Janečková, Klara Kofen, Suzana Milevska, Boris Ondreička, Ying Sze Pek, 
Tjaša Pogačar & Brandon Rosenbluth, Mohammad Salemy, Mårten Spångberg, 
Simon(e) van Saarloos, Darko Vukić, Scott Wark, Agata Wieczorek, Xtreme Girl

​Location: Gorgona Hall (Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia)
Dates: 23rd & 24th of May 2025

The conference language is English and admission is free.

​Link to the schedule and more information: 
https://identitycrisisnetwork.com/conference-2025/

Organizers: Identity Crisis Network (Luka Cvetković, Klara Petrović, 
Michalina Sablik, Luja Šimunović and Vera Zalutskaya)

This project is realized with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz 
Institute as part of the international cultural program of the Polish 
Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025.

SCHEDULE:

Friday, 23 May 2025

09:30 – 12:00  Panel: One and Many Crises
Bill Balaskas, Suzana Milevska, Mark Cinkevich, Ying Sze Pek

12:15 – 13:45 Keynote: Svitlana Matviyenko

14:45 – 17:15 Panel: Epistemic Ruptures
Salim Bayri, Agata Wieczorek, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Hana Janečková

17:30 – 19:00
Keynote: Jack Halberstam

Saturday, 24 May 2025
  09:30 – 12:00
Panel: Protocols for New Becomings
Mårten Spångberg, Mohammad Salemy, Darko Vukić, Boris Ondreička

13:00 – 14:30
Keynote: Simon O’Sullivan

15:30 – 18:00
Panel: Playing the Self Beyond Algorithms
Klara Kofen, Tjaša Pogačar & Brandon Rosenbluth, Scott Wark, Xtreme Girl

18:15 – 19:45
Keynote: Anna Longo

19:45 – 20:00 Closing Remarks

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Identity Crisis Network (Zagreb, 23-24 May 25). In: ArtHist.net, 
May 17, 2025. <https://arthist.net/archive/49289>.

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