We are pleased to announce the international conference I REMEMBER THIS, taking place in Vienna on 8th October 2024 as part of the European project ARTAS – Art Archive Study.
For decades, three archives of the visual arts of the 20th and 21st centuries – basis wien – Documentation Centre for Contemporary Art (Vienna, Austria), The Archive of Fine Arts (Prague, Czech Republic), and Moderna galerija’s Archives Department (Ljubljana, Slovenia) – have collected, preserved, and made available documentation relating to the contemporary artistic production and its protagonists, writers, and venues in their respective countries, offering researchers and the interested public a wealth of information about the individual figures, institutions, and exhibitions of the visual arts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In the ARTAS project, which focuses on researching material in archives of contemporary art before and after 2004, the partners explore how the political, economic, and social relations among the states changed after 2004, that is, the period of the greatest enlargement of the European Union to date with the accession of ten new member states, including the Czech Republic and Slovenia. The emphasis is on how this historical moment influenced contemporary art in our countries; this is investigated through databases, archival and documentary materials, workshops, interviews, and this conference.
Based on the idea of an artwork1 and following its sources and traces as a second layer of experience, the conference I REMEMBER THIS pays particular attention to documenting art production, archiving materials, and preserving knowledge and ideas.
Participants: Zdenka Badovinac, Nicola Baird, Daniel Grúň, Dora Halasi, Vít Havránek, Tanja Ostojić, Iga Maria Szczepańska, and Seda Yıldız.
The conference will take place Sidroon October 8th on the premises of basis wien (Fünfhausgasse 5) in Vienna.
More at: https://artarchivestudy.blogspot.com/
Contact: office@basis-wien.at, +43 1 5226795
Download full conference programme
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1 The Slovakian artist Roman Ondak's I REMEMBER THIS from 1998.
