Workshop III
November 11, 2014
WORKSHOP III: Perspectives on Visual Art, Activism and Social Transformation
The First Roma Pavilion (2007) was a conscious “subaltern revolt” by the European Roma intelligentsia. During the preceding decade Roma theoreticians and artists proved that it is in the field of the visual where Roma subalternity — this burden of being the ‘other’ and the physical, symbolic and epistemic violence it implies, or in other words, the colonizing act of European majorities toward the Roma — is the most visible and evident. The increasingly vigorous discourse on Roma identity, representation and contemporary art together with the arrival of Roma cultural experts, has begun to dismantle the sophisticated machinery of cultural oppression.
Workshop III identifies constructive and transformative models – in theory, art, and life – which enable us to get closer to an understanding of reconciliation or peace. Those practices that inspire us to see the potential reconciliation of interrelations between non-Roma subjectivity and Roma reality.
Programme:
15.00: Opening Words by Fredrik Elg and Senija Vurzer.
15.05: Introduction to Workshop III by Tímea Junghaus.
15.15-15.40: Keynote speech by Delaine Le Bas.
15.40-16.00: Coffee Break.
16.00-17.45: Panel discussion with Delaine Le Bas, Marita Muukkonen, John Peter Nilsson and Selma Selman. Moderator: Tímea Junghaus.
17.45-18.00: Closing words by Dušan Marinkovic.
18.00: Film screening Indignados (2012) by Tony Gatlif. Introduction by Ivor Stodolsky.
Participants:
Tímea Junghaus – Curator, Roma activist, European Roma Cultural Foundation (Budapest).
Fredrik Elg – International coordinator and project manager, City of Malmö Culture Department.
Delaine Le Bas – Artist (UK).
Dušan Marinkovic – Roma activist and rap artist (Malmö).
Marita Muukkonen – Curator. Director of Perpetuum Mobilε (Helsinki/Berlin).
John Peter Nilsson – Director, Moderna Museet Malmö.
Selma Selman – Artist (BiH).
Ivor Stodolsky – Curator, Theorist. Director of Perpetuum Mobilε (Berlin/Helsinki).
Senija Vurzer – Project assistant, City of Malmö Culture Department.
Moderna Museet, Malmö in partnership with Perpetuum Mobilε and the City of Malmö Culture Department.