Conference Program
5-7 November 2021
- Friday 5th November: Day 1. CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference in Lodz
- Saturday 6th November. Day 2. CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference, Łódź and Transfer to Gdańsk
- Sunday 7th November. Day 3. CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference in Gdańsk
Day 1: Friday 5th November.
Andels Hotel Auditorium, Łódź
CONFLICTS, CRISES, AND THE POLITICS OF GROWTH
8:30–9:30. Registration Desk (Andel's Hotel, conference part, ground floor). A bus from Campanile Hotel to Andel's Hotel will depart at 8.30 a.m. There will also be a volunteer at the Puro Hotel who will provide the necessary information. Hotel Puro is 2 minutes from the conference venue. No bus is needed. The same for Hotel Andel's.
9:30–9:45. Welcome speeches at Andel’s Hotel Auditorium, (Łódź Andel's Hotel, conference section, 4th floor) (Jarosław Suchan, Director, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Jacek Friedrich, Director, National Museum in Gdansk, Mami Kataoka, President of CIMAM and Alberto Garlandini, President of ICOM).
09:45 – 9:50. Bart de Baere, CIMAM Board Member and Director of M HKA — Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, introduces the topic and speakers of the day.
9:50–10:30. Keynote 1 – Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
10:30–11:00. Coffee break, (Łódź Andel's Hotel, conference section, 4th floor)
11:00–11:20. Perspective 1 – Jaroslaw Lubiak, Dr. Art College, Szczecin, Poland.
11:20–11:40. Perspective 2 – Joanna Sokolowska, Independent Curator, Poland.
11:40–12:00 Perspective 3 – Alex Baczynki-Jenkins, Artist and choreographer, Berlin/Warsaw.
12:00–12:45. Q&A with Keynote and Perspective speakers moderated by Bart de Baere.
12:45–14:00. Lunch (Andel's Hotel, conference part, first floor)
14:00–15:00. Networking Session (Łódź Andel's Hotel, conference section, 4th floor)
15:00–19:00. Organizing groups: visiting galleries in groups simultaneously:
- Two exhibitions in ms2: “Atlas of modernity” (3 floors) and “Leopold Buczkowski. Glimpses of History, Fleeting Images”
- Three exhibitions in ms1: "The Avant-garde Museum”, “The Earth is Flat Again” and “Agnieszka Kurant. Errorism”
- Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa: “Helena Bohle-Szacka. Penetration"
- Signum: Kojiego Kamojiego KOJI KAMOJI EARTH AND AIR DRAWINGS
- Gallery Wschodnia: exhibitions “PRESENCE”
Delegates will be divided into groups and visit the proposed exhibitions in rotation. Delegates will move by bus and on foot (ms2 is 2 minutes walk from Hotel Andel's). Delegates will be guided through the exhibitions by curators giving short introductions.
19:00–21:00 Drinks and seated dinner at Vienna House Restaurant, at Andel's Hotel (Łódź Andel's Hotel, conference section, 4th floor)
Day 2: Saturday 6th November. Andels Hotel, Łódź and Transfer to Gdańsk
MUSEUMS AS SPACES FOR RECOGNIZING DIFFERENCES
Andel’s Hotel Auditorium, Łódź and Transfer to Gdańsk
→ Guests should check out and take their suitcases to Andel’s Hotel, where they will be kept on the first floor.
A bus from Campanile Hotel to Andel's Hotel will depart at 8.30 a.m.
MUSEUMS AS SPACES FOR RECOGNIZING DIFFERENCES
9:00–9:30. Welcome coffee (Łódź Andel's Hotel, conference section, 4th floor)
9:30–9:40. Malgorzata Ludwisiak, CIMAM Board Member and Chief Curator of the Department of Modern Art at the National Museum in Gdansk, introduces the topic and speakers of the day.
09:40–10:20. Keynote 2 – T. J. Demos, Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History and Visual Culture, and Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz, USA.
10:20–11:00. Q&A with T.J. Demos.
11:00–11:20. Coffee break (Łódź Andel's Hotel, conference section, 4th floor)
11:20–11:40. Perspective 4 – Hilke Wagner, Direktor Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
11:40–12:00. Perspective 5 – Oleksiy Radynski, Filmmaker and Writer, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.
12:00–12:40. Q&A with Keynote and Perspective speakers moderated by Malgorzata Ludwisiak.
12:50–13:50. Lunch (Andel's Hotel, conference part, first floor)
13:50–14:50. Discussion workshops (Andel's Hotel, conference part, first floor)
15:00. Bus to Gdańsk (about 4 hours) (Andel's Hotel, LOBBY)
19:30. Welcome by Aneta Szylak, Head of NOMUS. Visiting the exhibition at NOMUS New Art Museum/Branch of the National Museum in Gdansk, and Dinner at NOMUS.
→ The luggage will remain in the coaches. At 21:30 hrs. guests will be taken to their respective hotels.
Day 3: Sunday 7th November. ECS European Centre of Solidarity, Gdańsk
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE AND COMMONALITY
Auditorium of ECS, the European Centre of Solidarity, Gdańsk
→ Guests attending the post-tour to Warsaw should check out and take their suitcases to ECS, the European Centre of Solidarity, Gdańsk, where they will be safely kept and ready to depart at night Warsaw.
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE AND COMMONALITY
9:00–9:25. Welcome coffee. (Temporary Exhibition Room, ECS, ground floor)
9:25-9:30. Auditorium of ECS (ground floor). Jacek Kołtan, Director’s Representative for Research European Solidarity Centre, welcome speech at ECS
9:30–9:40. Auditorium of ECS (ground floor). Introduction of the topic and speakers of the day.
9:40–10:00. Perspective 6 – Pelin Tan, Senior Researcher, Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston. Prof. Faculty of Fine Arts, Batman University, Turkey.
10:00–10:20. Perspective 7 – Binna Choi, Director, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
10:20–11:00. Coffee break. (Temporary Exhibition Room, ECS, ground floor)
11:00–11:20. Perspective 8 – Otobong Nkanga, Visual artist, Antwerp, Belgium.
11:20–12:00. Keynote 4 – Maristella Svampa, Sociologist and writer, Bariloche, Argentina.
12:00–12:45. Q&A with Keynote and Perspective speakers.
12:45–14:50. Lunch and workshop. (TEMPORARY EXHIBITION ROOM, ECS, ground floor)
15:00–16:00. CIMAM General Assembly at the ECS Auditorium. All CIMAM members are invited to join this session in person and online.
16:00–16:10. Organizing groups and rotation for visits.
16:10–19:00. Visits to permanent exhibitions of European Solidarity Centre, visits to current exhibitions at Green Gate, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art.
19:00. Dinner, summarizing speeches, goodbye drink. (TEMPORARY EXHIBITION ROOM, ECS, ground floor).
Guests attending the post-tour to Warsaw will leave from the parking lot near ECS, which is where you will arrive from Lodz.
On-site Conference registration includes:
- Access to all conference sessions.
- Conference lunches, dinners, and refreshment breaks.
- Access to organized visits.
- Coach service to and from planned visits.
- Accommodation and airfare are not included.
Virtual Conference registration includes:
- 3-day ticket gives you access to all the conferences, workshops, and networking sessions + virtual tours of the exhibitions.
- 1-day ticket gives you access to the conferences, workshops, and networking sessions of the day purchased + virtual tour to the exhibition.
- 1 session ticket, gives you access to the session purchased.
Cancellation policy:
On-site conference registration:
— On-site conference registration is fully refundable prior to 15 August 2021
— 50% refundable between 15 August and 1 September 2021
— Non-refundable after 1 September 2021
— Registration closes on 7 October 2021
Virtual conference registration:
— 50% refundable for 3-day tickets between 01 September and 15 September 2021
— Non-refundable after 15 September 2021
— Online registration closes on Thursday 4 November 2021
CIMAM reserves the right to cancel the on-site events of the Annual Conference if the international situation due to COVID-19 worsens, and mobility restrictions make it impossible to hold the event in person. In this case, the CIMAM Annual Conference would be scheduled entirely virtually, and the organization will reimburse the amount paid by participants except for the fee to attend the 3 days online.
If in previous days to the conference, delegates are diagnosed as covid positive, CIMAM will reimburse* the full amount of their CIMAM Annual Conference ticket except for the online congress fee. Health certificate as proof of medical condition, will be required.
In addition to this, if the delegates are forced to cancel their ticket due to last minute travel restrictions in country origin or destination (entry to Poland), CIMAM will reimburse* the full amount of their CIMAM Annual Conference ticket except for the online congress fee.
*The reinbursement does not cover travel, accomodation, or any additional costs related. We strongly encourage participants to opt for travel options that have free cancellation policies.