Lectures 20-21.07.2016
The Good Living and its challenges in confronting our present
Carlos Leon-Xjimenez
20.07.2016
18:10-19:00
Carlos Leon-Xjimenez, PhD researcher at the Institute for European Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Master in Fine Arts, with a background in Anthropology, is currently researching critical space practice in art and activist interventions in the Lima Historical Centre. Based in Madrid and Lima, he has published several articles focusing on contemporary Peruvian art. His talk focuses on a political perspective on the ‘Good living’, analysing popular urbanisation and social urban movements in Peru, highlighting transformation and challenges in the Andean cultures with the ‘commons’ under a neo-liberal economy.
Moderated by Harm Lux Independent curator, Berlin.
Spatiality and Consecration of the Space
Dr. Josip Zanki
21.08.2016.
18:00
buen vivir and/or Croatian Contemporary Art Praxis/Practice
Dr. Suzana Marjanic
18:35
A collaborative lecture developed by Dr. Suzana Marjanić, a folklore researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, and Dr. Josip Zanki, artist, anthropologist and Director of HDLU Centre, Zagreb. Marjanić’s field of interest: theories of ritual and myth, animal studies and the anthropology of performance (art). She recently published the book Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art: From Traveleri until Today (2014) in which she researched Croatian performance art (1922–2013) and the influence of performers/performance art upon other artists and the extended social affects. Zanki works with installations, performances, experimental film and video, graphic media and cultural anthropological research. He has realised numerous individual and group exhibitions, residency programs, interdisciplinary projects and collective exhibitions with other artists.
Moderated by Harm Lux Independent curator, Berlin
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art
Avenija Dubrovnik 17
10010 Zagreb