Talk
Åpent forum: Marko Stamenkovic
HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE - Lecture on Europe, Migration, and The Emperor’s New Clothes by Serbian curator and art historian Marko Stamenkovic.
How do intimacy, masculinity and inter-masculine privacy enter the public preserve of ‘European refugee crisis’ nowadays? This talk is a short tale about a ‘foreign affair’ between Europe and its significant other: an invite to think and rethink to which extent both sides involved in the so-called integration process comply with our capacity to imagine a ‘life more glamorous’ for everyone and, also, anyone being part of it. And it’s no secret: to migrate from an expectable, either politically correct or incorrect position with regard to this and related issues, presents but another opportunity to exercise the power of words and images (or its lack thereof) around mankind at large – their lives and deaths, their vices and virtues, and the crisis of the self in front of the other. Are you ready?
Marko Stamenkovic (1977) is art historian, critic and curator from the south of Serbia. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Ghent (2014). Over the month of April 2016, he was Artist-in-Residence of MuseumsQuartier Wien/Q21 invited by BMEIA (The Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs).
Åpent forum
Åpent Forum is a student initiative, conceived in 1999 at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art, and invites scholars and practitioners from art and sciences to share their thoughts.
The program is free and runs in English.