Poster in red font on white background reads Common Differences Issues for Feminist Curating in Post-Socialist Europe

 

Friday 27 May, 2011

9:30                     Registration and coffee

10:00 – 10:30    Katrin Kivimaa Welcome to the Symposium

10:30 – 11:15     Angela Dimitrakaki Feminist Politics and Institutional Critiques: Imagining a Curatorial Commons

11:15 – 12:00     Izabela Kowalczyk From Identity to Transformation of Visual Order in Curatorial Practices

12:00 – 12:30     Eva Ursprung Shifted Identities: Female Self-Constructions from Socialism to Consumerism and In-Between

12:30 – 13:30     Lunch

13:30 – 16:00     Panel session: Regional and Trans-Regional Perspectives on the Baltic Feminisms

Presentations: Mara Traumane, Katrin Kivimaa, Laima Kreivyte; will be joined in discussion by Reet Varblane, Mare Tralla

Moderator: Rael Artel

16:00 – 16:30     Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00     Keynote speech: Bojana Pejic From ‘Latent Feminism’ to ‘Intimate Feminism’: Rethinking Gender Check

 

Two conference speakers at Common Differences symposium, Talinn

Keynote speaker Bojana Pejic being introduced by Katrin Kivimaa (courtesy of Izabela Kowalczyk

Saturday, 28 May, 2011

9:30                     Coffee

10:00 – 10:45   Pawel Leszkowicz Love and Democracy: A Queering of the Visual Field by Women Artists in Poland

10:45 – 11:30     Katja Kobolt Feminist Curatorial Practices and Feminist Canon-Building Strategies as Political Actions

11:30 – 12:45     Panel discussion: Queer Curating and Feminisms

Group of conference participants at Common Differences, Talinn

Curators’ tour of Untold Sotries Exhibition, Talinn Art Hall. Co-curator Airi Triisberg, far left. (Courtesy of Izabela Kowalczyk)

Pawel Leszkowicz, Katja Kobolt, Airi Triisberg, Rebeka Põldsam

Moderator: Lara Perry

12:45 – 13:15      Closing discussion