Series of panel meetings with performance artists

The on-line publication of the collection of the Polish Performance Archive, created using the items from Filmoteka and Artists’ Archives of the MoMA in Warsaw was marked by a 1.5-month-long series of meetings with Polish performance artists and lectures titled “On the Tip of the Tongue: Performance and the War of Words”. The meetings accentuated the participation of female artists, who contributed strongly to the development of this genre.

Ort:
- Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
Beginn des Ereignisses:
- 2016
Hauptakteur:
- Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Ereignis von:
- Polish Performance Archive of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Seminar "Forms of Resistance: Another Look at Bulgarian Art 1944-1985"

The seminar was organized by Natalia Hristova at the New Bulgarian University, Department "Art History and History of Culture" and attracted wide public interest. The lectures of art expert Krasimir Iliev in March and April 2016 were well-attended by students and researchers.

Ort:
- New Bulgarian University, 1618 Sofia, Montevideo Str. 21.
Beginn des Ereignisses:
- 2016
Hauptakteur:
- Iliev, Krasimir
Ereignis von:
- Forms of Resistance in Fine Arts

“Queer Archives Institute” inaugurational exhibition at Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

The staging of materials from Queer Archives Institute in Sao Paulo was part of the exhibition "Acervo Videobrasil em Contexto #2". Visual materials chosen by Karol Radziszewski to be exposed in Brazil aimed at showing the forgotten and unknown history of Central-Eastern European queer community. Too often region of Central and Eastern Europe was perceived as peripheral in modern queer history and theory. Radziszewski's activities had the purpose of showing ambiguity and struggle of LGBTQ communities in (post)-socialist states.

Ort:
- São Paulo Avenida Imperatriz Leopoldina 1150, Brazil
Beginn des Ereignisses:
- 2016
Hauptakteur:
- Radziszewski, Karol
Ereignis von:
- Queer Archives Institute

New website

Bilingual database of the films produced in the studio, with descriptions and images.

Beginn des Ereignisses:
- 2016
Ereignis von:
- Béla Balázs Studio Research Archive

Event (general): Katarina Cinema: A night at the movies with a discussion about the films of Nikša Fulgosi and Luchino Visconti, Pula 2017

“The night at the movies with a discussions about the films of Nikša Fulgosi and Luchino Visconti” was held in 2017 on St. Catherine's Island (near Pula) on the subject of the Hollywoodization and commercialization of everyday life. As a part of the thematic evening, two significant films were shown - Luchino Visconti's film Belissima (1952), and A Hundred Beauties per Day (1971) by Nikša Fulgosi.

The imperative of beauty (in women) is an interesting phenomenon of post-war European society. Visconti's film Bellissima is one of the most important achievements of Italian neo-realism. The protagonist is a woman from a modest Roman working family who is obsessed with movies, but also with the idea that her little daughter can win in the Most Beautiful Girl in Rome competition and become a movie star. The film shows an unscrupulous struggle for success.

Fulgosi in A Hundred Beauties per Day deals with the Yugoslav ideology, and as in other popular-cultural content, develops a complex attitude toward this phenomenon. The scenes of singing and acting stars who entered the lives of residents through magazines and television shows, helped to create the cult of popular personality in the western style. On the other hand, partly built according to the Italian model, the promotion of modesty was an integral part of the construction of the Yugoslav fashion and the beauty industry. Nevertheless, the contradictions of the Yugoslav system emerge in the beauty contests where socialist morality comes in contrast to the commercial success of the product, in this case feminine beauty.

Ort:
- Istarska županija Otok Sveta Katarina, Croatia
- Općina Pula, Pula, Croatia
Beginn des Ereignisses:
- 2017
Ereignis von:
- Nikša Fulgosi Film Collection