Lodz&Gdansk 2021

• How was CIMAM 2021?

  

  Watch this 5 min highlights video about the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference, Lodz, and Gdansk, Poland.

• Welcome to CIMAM 2021

  

  Welcome speeches by 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.

• Dipesh Chakrabarty

  

  "Museums and the Chronopolitics of the Anthropocene". Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

• Jarosław Lubiak

  

  "Curating Resources: Museums and Deep Adaptation". Jarosław Lubiak, Dr. Art College, Szczecin, Poland.

• Joanna Sokolowska

  

  "Exercises in Imagination". Joanna Sokolowska, Independent Curator, Poland.

• Alex Baczynki-Jenkins

  

  "On Intimacy and Emergence". Alex Baczynki-Jenkins, Artist and choreographer, Berlin/Warsaw.

• Panel Discussion Day 1

  

  Panel discussion moderated by Bart de Baere, CIMAM Board Member and Director of M HKA — Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen with Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jaroslaw Lubiak, Joanna Sokolowska, and Alex Baczynki-Jenkins.

• T. J. Demos

  

  "Whose Climate Emergency? Neoliberal Recognition and Radical Futurity". 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.

• Q&A with TJ Demos

  

  Q&A with TJ Demos moderated by Malgorzata Ludwisiak.

• Hilke Wagner

  

  "The Dresden “Bilderstreit.” A Case Study from (East) Germany". Hilke Wagner, Director Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

• Oleksiy Radynski

  

  "Museum of Extraction". Oleksiy Radynski, Filmmaker and Writer, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine.

• Panel Discussion Day 2

  

  Panel discussion moderated by Malgorzata Ludwisiak, CIMAM Board Member and Chief Curator of the Department of Modern Art at the National Museum in Gdansk with TJ Demos, Hilke Wagner, and Oleksiy Radynski.

• Pelin Tan

  

  "Field as Entanglement and Transversal Methodology in Decolonial Practices". Pelin Tan, Senior Researcher, Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston. Prof. Faculty of Fine Arts, Batman University, Turkey.

• Binna Choi

  

  "What Does it Mean to Art-Institute while Unlearning to Practice the Commons and Maintaining an Ecosystem?" Binna Choi, Director, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Otobong Nkanga

  

  "A Circle Arching Out and Back – Carved to Flow". Otobong Nkanga, Visual artist, Antwerp, Belgium.

• Maristella Svampa

  

  "Pandemic, Socioecological Crisis and Alternative Proposals from the South". Maristella Svampa, Sociologist and writer, Bariloche, Argentina.

• Panel Discussion Day 3

  

  Panel discussion moderated by Ann-Sofi Noring, CIMAM Board Member and Vice-Chancellor / Chairman, Royal Academy / Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm with Pelin Tan, Binna Choi, Otobong Nkanga, and Maristella Svampa.

• Summarazing speeches. End of conference.

  

  Jarosław Suchan, Director, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz; Jacek Friedrich, Director, National Museum in Gdansk and Mami Kataoka, President of CIMAM and Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.