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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T110000
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/self-defined-symposium/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Self-Defined: Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 28 May / 11am – 4pm / Open Eye Gallery / free\, RSV
 P\n\nOn the occasion of the exhibition Self-Defined. New Stories from Arc
 hives\, this symposium brings together artists\, curators and cultural pro
 fessionals from regions of Europe less represented in the UK cultural sect
 or. Through conversations on archives\, memory and representation\, parti
 cipants will explore how historical narratives are revisited\, challenged 
 and reimagined today.\n\nProgramme\n\n11:00-11:50. Rethinking the Past Th
 rough Institutions.\n\nWhy does the past matter today? How can institution
 s engage with contested histories? Why and how do we work together to expl
 ore history and archives from different perspectives?\n\nParticipants:\n\n
 Gosia McKane\, Director\, Liverpool European Partnership\n\nAnna Bubnova\,
  Senior Relationship Manager\, Culture Responds\, Arts British Council\n\n
 Moderated by Sarah Fisher\n\n12:00-12:50. Exhibitions as Spaces for Untol
 d Histories.\n\nCan exhibitions make the voices of the excluded heard? Wha
 t responsibilities do curators and artists have when working with silenced
  or fragmented narratives?\n\nParticipants:\n\nKrasimira Butseva\, visual 
 artist and researcher based in London\, UK and Sofia\, Bulgaria.\n\nKristi
 ne Milere\, exhibition curator and researcher at the Art Museum RIGA BOURS
 E\, the Foreign Art Department of the Latvian National Museum of Art\n\nMo
 derated by Max Gorbatskyi\n\n13:00-14:00. Lunch break\n\n14:00-14:50. Ar
 tists\, Archives and Contemporary Work.\n\nWhy are artists and curators re
 turning to archives? How can artistic practice reactivate historical mater
 ial?\n\nParticipants:\n\nKarolina Gembara\, artist and researcher\, Poland
 \n\nLia Dostlieva\, artist and researcher\, Ukraine\n\nViktoria Bavykina a
 nd Max Gorbatskyi\, curators of the Self-Defined exhibition at Open Eye Ga
 llery\n\nModerated by Lindsay Taylor\, Director of the University of Salfo
 rd Art Collection\n\n15:00-15:50. Archival Practices Across Eastern Europ
 e.\n\nHow do archival cultures differ across Eastern Europe? What politica
 l\, social and historical conditions shape approaches to memory?\n\nPartic
 ipants:\n\nElene Toidze\, Co-founder and Director of Creative Clusters’ 
 Alliance\, Georgia.\n\nZula Rabikowska\, artist\, founder of Rethinking Ea
 stern Europe organisation.\n\nAndrii Usach and Аnna Yatsenko\, NGO After 
 Silence\, Ukraine.\n\nModerated by Viktoria Bavykina\n\nIn partnership wit
 h: The Liverpool European Festival\, University of Salford\, National Lib
 rary of Latvia\, CERS – Cultural and Creative Ecosystem of Latvia as a 
 Resource for Resilience and Sustainability.
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CATEGORIES:Talks
LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
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