educational program
INTELLECTUAL PLATFORM / EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
of the First Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Arts
The Biennale's companion intellectual platform / educational program is devoted not only to the problems of understanding the Ural industrial landscape and the various associated historic facts and cultural practices, Soviet and modern, but also to the general problems of contemporary art and of the creative process.
LECTURE CYCLE (13.09 – 10.10.2010)
Time: 19.00 – 21.00
The “Uralskij Rabochij” (Ural Worker) Printing Plant (49 Lenina ave.)
Section “Contemporary art: basic concepts”
Lecturers: Alisa Prudnikova (Ekaterinburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art); Tamara Galeeva, Tatiana Troshina, Irina Obukhova, Vadim Gurianov (Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky) ; Elena Fedorova, Milena Orlova («ArtChronicle» magazine, Moscow).
Section “The subject of production in art, from the avant-garde to our days: critical aspects in schools of 20th century art and in the works of individual artists”
Lecturers: Tatiana Kruglova, Larisa Tolkacheva, Lilia Nemchenko, Lyudmila Budrina (Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky); Lyudmila Tokmeninova (Ural State Academy of Architecture and Art).
Section “Labor in the Urals: the life of workers and 'industrial' art”
Lecturers: Tatiana Kruglova, Svetlana Kornilova, Kirill Yakimov, Maria Kapkan, Evgenij Alekseev, Lilia Dobreitsina, Tatiana Troshina, Tamara Galeeva, Lyudmila Budrina, Maria Litovskaya, Dmitrij Moskvin (Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky); Maria Sokolovskaya (Sverdlovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V.G. Belinskij).
DISCUSSIONS
The “Uralskij Rabochij” (Ural Worker) Printing Plant (49 Lenina ave.)
- “The power of critique” – on goals and the potential of contemporary critical thought.
- “Is there anything Ural in the Urals” – on the transformation of traditional Ural mythologems in works of art.
SERIES OF ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS
- Round-table discussion “Art tourism: prospects of development in the Urals”, 30.09
“Europe” Shopping Center (25 Lenina ave.)
Partners: “Europe” Shopping Center
- Round-table discussion “Architectural conversions: experience and prospects of Ekaterinburg”, 21.09
Partners: “TATLIN” magazine
FILM PROGRAM
“The Industrial Urals – 'sculpting in time' – an essay in resetting”
Curator: Lilia Nemchenko
The “Uralskij Rabochij” (Ural Worker) Printing Plant (49 Lenina ave.)
MEETINGS WITH DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKERS
The “Uralskij Rabochij” (Ural Worker) Printing Plant (49 Lenina ave.)
Screening of documentaries on industrial life in Soviet Sverdlovsk and meetings with the film-makers.
RESEARCH SEMINAR (2.10 – 6.10.2010)
Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky (51 Lenina ave.)
«Industry at the point of bifurcation: global art, local geography, and the (post)industrial cityscape»
Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky, Ekaterinburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Alternative Culture Center (Budapest), Urban Laboratory (Vilnius), Open Society Institute – Higher Education Support Program (OSI-HESP, Hungary-USA).