From 19 November to 5 December 2024, a series of online webinars in English titled “Identity Crisis Network" will take place. The three-week event, featuring discussions, will center on the broad themes of identity and subjectivity within the cultural sphere. The series will conclude with a conference in Zagreb in 2025. The events were organised by members of the curatorial team from Croatia, Poland, Belarus and Serbia in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polish cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council 2025.
“Identity Crisis” - a series of webinars for representatives of the cultural sector in Central and Eastern Europe
“Identity Crisis Network” is an artistic research-based project created through collaboration between the Croatian curatorial collective KUCCA, curators Vera Zalutska and Michalina Sablik, and researcher Luka Cvetkovic. The project connects artistic practices and discourses that challenge established notions of identity and subjectivity. Through a series of seminars, conferences, and meetings between artists, curators, and theoreticians the project is an entry point into conceiving new perspectives in art that act beyond determined frameworks.
The first part of the “Identity Crisis Network” consists of a series of six webinars in the form of online debates, focusing on the concept of identity through the lenses of technology, feminism, queer theory, decolonialism, politics, and philosophy. The sessions will be led by theorists, artists, and curators from countries that joined the European Union after 2004, as well as representatives from pre-accession countries, from Poland, Kazakhstan, Serbia, USA, Germany and UK/Belgium. The webinars will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Participants are required to register in advance, and a detailed description, schedule of events, and registration form are available at identitycrisisnetwork.com.
Webinar schedule:
- 19.11.2024 - Jan Sowa: In search for the common denominator(s): Is there a place for universalism in the contemporary politics?
- 21.11.2024 - Aigerim Kapar: Care for Balkhash: “Interweaving Climate, Water(s) and Communities”
- 26.11.2024 - Alice Bucknell: Ways of Worlding
- 28.11.2024 - Nav Haq: Art After Identity Politics
- 03.12.2024 - Sylvia Sadzinski: Queer and Feminist Instituting
- 05.12.2024 - Maja Ćirić: Mastering Contemporary Growing Pains (in Central and Eastern European Art and Curating)
International Dialogue Platform “Identity Crisis Network” – Conference in Zagreb 2025
The second part of the project will take place in May 2025, with a two-day conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. The event will feature numerous topics discussed during the seminars in 2024. Artistic people working in culture, theorists from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans will be invited to participate.
For more information about the project, please visit identitycrisisnetwork.com.
We invite you to join us!
Team: Luka Cvetkovich, Klara Petrović, Michalina Sablik, Luja Šimunović, Vera Zalutskaya
Organisers: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, KUĆĆA, Fundacja BUBA