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PATTERNS LECTURES
PATTERNS Lectures is a programme to develop university courses in the fields of artistic research, art history, cultural theory and cultural studies. PATTERNS Lectures was initiated by ERSTE Foundation and is being implemented by World University Service (WUS) Austria. The fourth edition of the programme focuses on new artistic and activist practices, new social movements and their significance for the recent cultural history in Central and South Eastern Europe (CEE). The programme aims to research, analyse and understand different aspects of cultural practices related to the transformation of society, life, art and culture in CEE, while accounting for the pluralities that characterise the region. The programme stresses critical methodology as well as innovative and interactive teaching practices. It encourages international academic exchange by enabling lecturers to go on study visits and offer guest lectures by international colleagues. www.patternslectures.org
PATTERNS LECTURES ADVISORS
THE PROGRAMME SUPPORTS
Four international experts selected 12 courses and will provide advice to the lecturers during the project. The advisors have wide-ranging experience both in academia and in international curatorial research.
The development of new university courses.
Boris Buden is a writer, cultural critic and translator. He studied philosophy in Zagreb and received his PhD in Cultural Theory from Humboldt University, Berlin. He currently teaches Cultural Theory at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Elke Krasny is Professor of Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work as a curator, cultural theorist, and writer focuses on architecture, urbanism, politically conscious art practices, and feminist historiographies of curating. Ilona Németh is an artist, organiser and curator based in Slovakia and Hungary. She is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, leading the Studio IN and the international education programme Open Studio at the Department of Intermedia. Hedvig Turai is an art historian and critic based in Budapest. She is dedicated to research and publishing in the fields of Holocaust, Gender and Contemporary Art. She is currently working at the International Business School in Budapest.
Study visits: the lecturers visit international institutions relevant to course development. Guest lectures: international scholars are invited to give guest teaching sessions. Consultation: PATTERNS Lectures advisors assist lecturers during the process of course development and implementation. Literature purchase: lecturers buy publications relevant to the course, which are then made available to the students at the university library. Publication: full or partial support for publications related to course topics. Networking: meetings between the lecturers are organised to exchange know-how and experience. Additional activities encourage student involvement (excursions, exhibitions…).
SELECTED COURSES
PATTERNS Lectures advisors selected 12 courses from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovak Republic that will be taught throughout the academic year 2016/2017. The topics of the university courses include contemporary art, social change, political activism, protest culture, gender, minority discourses, digital genres, and oral history.
AUSTRIA
The Material Culture of the Far Right
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History, www.univie.ac.at/en/ Agnieszka PASIEKA and Philipp THER Our course will familiarise students with recent developments in the study of material culture by examining objects produced, used and/ or promoted by far-right organisations. It will combine an investigation of two highly relevant research areas – material culture and far-right movements – both of which have been rapidly developing in recent years but have rarely been analysed jointly. The problems to be discussed include: common patterns and symbols; processes of borrowings and exchanges; the place of far-right iconography in the public sphere. course term
Summer semester 2017
guest lecturers
Daniel Miller, anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, University College London/ Andreas Peham, researcher, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, Vienna/ Michaela Schäuble, anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, University of Bern/ Matthew Feldman, professor, Teesside University, Middlesbrough/ Rafał Pankowski, sociologist and political scientist, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw/ Genevieve Zubrzycki, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor lecturers
Agnieszka Pasieka is an anthropologist by training and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, where she is currently conducting a project on cooperation between far-right movements in CEE. Her research interests centre around religious and ethnic pluralism, minorities, nationalism, and historical anthropology. Philipp Ther is professor of Central European history at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna. Previously he was a professor of comparative European history at the EUI in Florence. He is a specialist in cultural and social history, study of nationalism and post-socialist transformation.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Design and Crisis
University of Bihac, Department of Textile Design, www. unbi.ba Irfan HOŠIĆ The main aim of this course is to detect, analyse and catalogue design practices in late socialist, post-socialist and post-industrial landscapes of ex-Yugoslav countries with a particular focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina. By developing awareness about regional design history and formulating critical questions in local social and cultural contexts, the course pays attention to inventive and successful design projects from 1989 onward, but also foregrounds most Yugoslav countries’ transition from an industrial environment to one shaped by crisis. course term
Summer semester 2017
guest lecturers
Barbara Predan, design theoretician, University of Ljubljana/ Hajrudin Hromadžić, sociologist, University of Rijeka/ Amir Husak, documentarian, The New School, New York City/ Dejan Kršić, graphic designer and design historian, University of Split/ Feđa Vukić, design theoretician, University of Zagreb/ Marko Golub, art and design theoretician, Croatian design society, Zagreb/ Katarina Nina Simončič, art and fashion historian, University of Zagreb/ Koraljka Vlajo, design curator, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb/ Endi Poskovic, artist, University of Michigan/ Dalida Karić Hadžiahmetović, designer, University of Sarajevo/ Damir Midžić, designer, Bihac lecturer
Irfan Hošić completed his PhD in the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia). Hošić is an assistant professor in the Department of Textile Design at the University of Bihać (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
CROATIA
Creative Cultural Resistance: Art for Social Change
University of Rijeka/Academy of Applied Arts Rijeka, Acting and Media Studies, www.apuri.hr Maša MAGZAN The goal of the course is to open an innovative trans-disciplinary platform that provides opportunities for students to reflect on and engage in the local specific actions that foster civic engagement and social impact through the arts. By completing creative assignments and participating in collaborative art projects, students will develop a critical perspective on the past but also increase their awareness about how new artistic and activist practices can be used in order to promote cross-cultural understanding and solidarity today, in the midst of a migrant crisis and surging right-wing movement in Europe. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Dino Mustafić, director, professor at Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts and head of MESS international theatre festival, Sarajevo/ Janez Janša, editor, director and performer of interdisciplinary performances, Ljubljana/ Borka Pavičević, dramaturge, cultural activist and newspaper columnist, Belgrade/ Letricija Linardić, artist and associate professor, Academy of Applied Arts at University of Rijeka lecturer
Maša Magzan (Dr) is an assistant professor in the Department of Acting and Media Studies at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka. The focus of her work is on the growing intersection between anthropology, sociology and the arts, disciplines that involve culture and people’s negotiation of social realities.
HUNGARY
Art Always Has its Consequences: Feasible Utopias between Stock Exchange and Social (Ex)Change
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Budapest, www.mke.hu/en János SUGÁR The primary aim of the course is to critically examine current economic transformations in the CEE region and to experiment with alternative economic models. In promoting critical thinking through art, we encourage students to analyse, raise questions and reflect on the topics over the course of two semesters. A major aim is to deal with day-today questions that students are facing (often with the dilemma of choosing between books and food, study and work) but that are not yet traditionally part of usual university arts curricula. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Tibor F. Liska, professor, Corvinus University, Budapest and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Budapest/ Beáta Margitházi, assistant professor, ELTE University, Budapest/ Tracey Wheatley and Nóra Feldmár, Vedegylet – Protect the Future, Budapest/ John Jordan, artist and activist, United Kingdom and France/ Corina L. Apostol, art historian, curator and writer, Romania and Canada/ Zsuzsanna Szalay, economist, Corvinus University, Budapest/ Maja and Reuben Fowkes, curators and art historians, Hungary lecturer
János Sugár (b. 1958, prof. DLA habil) is a visual artist who has participated in international exhibitions since the mid-1980s. In 1992 he exhibited at the documenta IX, Kassel; in 1996 at Manifesta I, Rotterdam, etc. His films were screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York in 1998. In 1990 he co-founded the Intermedia Faculty of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest where he has been teaching since 1990.
HUNGARY
Crisis, Art and Political Activism in Central and Eastern Europe
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Design and Art Theory, Budapest, www.mome.hu/en Ágnes GAGYI and Márton SZARVAS The course investigates the transformation in the relationship between art and political activism in the context of the post-2008 period of crisis, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the case of Hungary, blending structural analysis with introspective/ creative practice. On the level of structural analysis, the course conceptualises the present crisis as a cyclical crisis of the capitalist world system. Responses to the crisis on the level of nation-state politics in CEE, as well as in anti-systemic movement cycles, are interpreted relative to that context. course term
Summer semester 2017
guest lecturers
Ovidiu Pop, writer and theoretician, Romania and Austria/ Veda Popovici, artist, theoretician and activist, Romania/ Jean-Louis Fabiani, professor, Central European University, Budapest/ Katalin Tímár, curator, Ludwig Museum, Budapest/ Irina Boatea, artist, Bucharest/ Szabolcs Kispál, artist, Budapest lecturers
Ágnes Gagyi is a social movement researcher who works on East Central European movements from a global historical perspective. She is a Research Fellow at the New Europe College, Bucharest, and member of the Budapest-based Working Group for Public Sociology, “Helyzet”. Márton Szarvas graduated from the Department of Design and Art Theory at the Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design in 2013. Currently he is an MA student in sociology and social anthropology at Central European University. Szarvas is an active member of the Working Group for Public Sociology, “Helyzet”.
POLAND
The Interdependencies Among Dominant-Minority Group Discourses in Central Eastern Europe after 1989: A Critical Approach
Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Slavic Studies, Warsaw, www.pan.pl Nicole DOŁOWY-RYBIŃSKA and Anna ZAWADZKA Discourses in the public sphere referring to minorities in Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe constitute the topic of the course. We will reflect on how dominant discourses shape identity strategies by minorities, both individually or as a community. In studying critical and theoretical texts, discourses in the public space, and artistic and countercultural practices, we will analyse narrations and their influence on the ways in which minorities conceptualise their identity. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Monika Bobako, researcher, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań/ Fabian Virchow, sociologist and politologist, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf/ Magda Lipska, curator, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/ Katharina Wiedlack, researcher, University of Vienna/ Agnieszka Pasieka, anthropologist, University of Vienna/ Alexandre Duchêne, professor, University of Fribourg/ Daniel Lörcher, public relations, Borussia Dortmund Football Club lecturers
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska is an anthropologist and sociolinguist. Her field research concerns minority languages (transmission and ethnolinguistic vitality) and identity (creation and discursive representations). She is interested in multicultural and multilinguistic questions and the way multiculturalism functions and is presented in Poland in the 20th and 21st centuries. Anna Zawadzka is a sociologist whose field research concerns anti-Semitism and anticommunism in Polish-dominant discourses. In her studies she also tries to link her interest in gender studies with research about Polish dominant culture.
POLAND
Digital Genres in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Krakow, www.en.uj.edu.pl Piotr MARECKI The most established fields around digital genres, including game studies, new media art, electronic literature and the demoscene have not been sufficiently linked. Yet it seems that many innovative solutions for these particular fields could be brought on through a comparative analysis of digital forms of expression. The course proposes a critical approach to genres, equipping students with theoretical knowledge and terminology, setting paths for analysis, as well as focussing on user experience of digital genres. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Natalia Federova, new media poet, scholar in digital literature and media poetry lab curator, Saint Petersburg State University/ Markéta Magidová, intermedia artist, Prague lecturer
Piotr Marecki is assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and lecturer at the Film School in Łódź. Since 1999 he has been editor-in-chief of Ha!art Publishing House, which he co-founded.
POLAND
Performing the Past: Bystanders, Video Testimonies and Oral History
Jagiellonian University, Department of Polish Studies, Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies, Krakow, www.en.uj.edu.pl Aleksandra SZCZEPAN The aim of the course is to critically approach video testimonies of bystanders to the Shoah in terms of problems of witnessing and oral history, limits of testimony as a genre and performative practices of memory. The course will try to show that analysing performative practices of bystanders may make our interpretation of the very categories of bystander and testimony more complex and that bystanders’ video testimonies compel us to confront the Shoah from an utterly different, more precarious standpoint. course term
Summer semester 2017
guest lecturers
Jane Kilby, anthropologist, University of Salford, Manchester/ Piotr Filipkowski, sociologist, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw/ Heather Maio, concept designer, USC Shoah Foundation, New York City/ Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, cultural anthropologist, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw/ Agnieszka Nieradko, Jewish Cemeteries Rabbinical Commission lecturer
Aleksandra Szczepan is trained in literary studies and philosophy, graduated from Jagiellonian University, Krakow and is the author of the book Robbe-Grillet, the Realist (2016) and many articles. Her research interests include: redefinitions of realism in 20th-century literature and art, memory and trauma studies, representation of identity and past.
ROMANIA
Borders, Barriers and Protest Culture. The New Politics of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, www.uaic.ro/en Ovidiu GHERASIM-PROCA In recent years, major protests against social inequality easily bypassed the boundaries of national politics, calling for democracy and solidarity. Unfortunately, new borders have begun to replace the old ones. New nationalisms and culture wars are shaping new narratives of exclusion. In critically exploring the cultural, political and social transformations in Central and Eastern Europe, the course aims to present some of the concepts and models of analysis without which the barriers now rising inside and at the borders of the European Union become incomprehensible. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Tetiana Havlin, lecturer, University of Siegen/ Tomáš Rafa, visual artist, activist and political observer, Slovakia and Poland/ Ruxandra Ivan, lecturer, University of Bucharest/ Nebojša Milikić, artist, curator and activist, Belgrade/ Vasile Ernu, writer, social critic and activist, Bucharest/ Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, philosopher and cultural theorist, Chisinau lecturer
Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca is a social scientist working and living in Iași, Romania. He is lecturer in the Department of Political Science, European Studies and International Relations at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. His main research interests focus on political ideologies, transitional politics, cultural studies and mediology.
ROMANIA
The "Gypsy" in the European Imaginary: Cultural Constructions and Visual Representations of Racialised and Gendered Roma Identity
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Political Sciences Faculty, Department of Sociology, Bucharest, www.snspa.ro Ciprian TUDOR The course introduces MA students to the intellectual roots and contemporary transformations of the dominant cultural stereotypes of Roma identity. It is designed as a critical approach to and a deconstruction of the longstanding tradition of orientalising, exoticising and eroticising the figure of the Gypsy. The analysis of race, gender and ethnic dimensions draws on the critical methodology of visual studies, postcolonial and subaltern studies, visual anthropology, cultural and gender studies, as well as concepts like orientalism, colonisation and self-colonisation, intersectionality, whiteness, and strategic essentialism. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Iulia Hasdeu, anthropologist, University of Geneva and University of Lausanne/ Dina Iordanova, professor, University of St Andrews, Scotland lecturer
Ciprian Tudor, PhD, is an associate professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, teaching courses in the MA programmes of visual anthropology and Roma studies. He has an academic background in philosophy, anthropology and visual studies.
SERBIA
Bringing Theory, Activism and Cultural Practices Together: Feminist Press in Serbia in the 1990s and 2000s
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, www.bg.ac.rs/en/ Biljana DOJČINOVIĆ and Ana KOLARIĆ This course aims 1) to describe and explore the close relationship among theory, activism, and cultural and artistic practices in the feminist press in Serbia in the 90s (particularly in magazines such as: ProFemina, Ženske studije, Feminističke sveske); and 2) to examine if and how this relationship has been changed in more scholarly journals in feminist and gender theory, founded in the post-conflict, transitional Serbian society in the 2000s (such as: Genero and Knjiženstvo). course term
Summer semester 2017
guest lecturers
Katja Mihurko Poniž, associate professor, University of Nova Gorica/ Jasmina Lukić, associate professor, Central European University, Budapest/ Stanislava Barać, research associate, Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade/ Jelena Milinković, independent scholar, Belgrade/ Svetlana Stefanović, independent scholar, Belgrade lecturers
Biljana Dojčinović (professor) has been teaching in the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Faculty of Philology since 2003. In 2011, she became director of the research project Knjiženstvo and editor-in-chief of the journal Knjiženstvo. Ana Kolarić (Dr) has been teaching in the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Faculty of Philology, since 2010. In 2011, she began to participate in the research project Knjiženstvo, and became a member of the editorial board of the journal Knjiženstvo.
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Soft Norm: From Historical Awareness to Civil Engaged Art Practices
Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, Department of Sculpture, Object, Installation, www.vsvu.sk/en/ Martin PIAČEK SOFT NORM is a hybrid academic art course that focuses on civic identity development with the help of historiography, art history, art theory and related social and political activist approaches. The course involves both specialised lectures and practical art research sessions. course term
Winter semester 2016/2017
guest lecturers
Roman Holec, historian, researcher and writer, Slovakia/ Elena Mannová, historian, researcher and writer, Slovakia/ Marina Zavacká, historian, Slovakia/ Margarethe Makovec and Anthon Lederer, curators, Austria/ Anežka Bartlová, historian, Czech Republic/ Petra Švardová, historian and culturologist, Slovakia/ Gábor Hushegyi, art historian and writer, Slovakia/ Edit András, historian, lecturer and writer, Budapest/ Aneta Mona Chisa, visual artist, Romania lecturer
Martin Piaček is a visual artist, pedagogue and activist. He is Chairman of Public Pedestal, a civil organisation dealing with contemporary visual art in public space (www. verejnypodstavec.com). He is active on the KU.BA platform (www.kulturnabratislava.sk).
Some of the guest lecturers have yet to be confirmed and may be subject to change.
PATTERNS LECTURES TEAM
ERSTE Foundation Christiane Erharter
WUS Austria Michaela Handke Marc Schwärzli
For detailed information about the project and updates, please check the website: www.patternslectures.org Contact us at: patterns@wus-austria.org
Photo: Natascha Unkart
INITIATED BY
IMPLEMENTED BY
ERSTE Foundation In 2003, ERSTE Foundation evolved out of the Erste Oesterreichische Spar-Casse, the first Austrian savings bank. Currently, ERSTE Foundation is the main shareholder of Erste Group. It is an effective partner of a strong and confident civil society in Central and South Eastern Europe. The foundation invests part of its dividends to enable civil society, the inclusion of socially disadvantaged groups, and contemporary and socially engaged art. ERSTE Foundation promotes engagement with critical societal developments by artists and cultural producers and mediates their works to a wider public.
World University Service (WUS) Austria World University Service (WUS) Austria is a politically independent, non-governmental organisation committed to the promotion of the human right to education on the basis of academic freedom and university autonomy. Since its establishment in Graz in 1983, WUS Austria has been working to achieve this goal in various countries all over the world. Today WUS Austria has a regional focus on the countries of South Eastern and Eastern Europe and has two branch offices in Sarajevo and Prishtina.
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