What About the Margins? / Seminar

What About the Margins?

Seminar

19 June 2024 6 pm

Lectures: Andreja Mesarič anna ričář libánská Kvet Nguyen

Screnning of Denis Kozerawski & Peter Kašpar's short film Kambium1942

Discussion: Andreja Mesarič anna ričář libánská Kvet Nguyen and Denis Kozerawski

Moderated by Iva Kovač

The event will be held in English.

East Central Europe (ECE) and South East Europe (SEE) historically subordinated to different empires until the beginning of the 20th century have been affected by the history of colonialism (albeit in the form of economic exploitation rather than participating in political partitioning) and coloniality (as a mindset created by the social relations promoted through the history of colonialism). As a result they have been part of the global relations created through this history. Since the end of state socialism and the accession of many of these states to the EU (that is those in the process of pre-accession agreements) the dominant political positions in most of these states are aligned with the EU or the West.

The seminar will introduce academic and artistic research to present different cases in the long history of othering in/of these European peripheries. Andreja Mesarič and anna ričář libánská will focus on historical cases that helped solidify racist stereotypes in European peripheries. By focusing on her research on the Slovene catholic mission in Sudan in the 19th century anthropologist Andreja Mesarič will disclose early cases of the construction of whiteness in Slovenia. Moving closer to contemporaneity anna ričář libánská a researcher in the field of Ibero-American Studies will look at the creation of the image of the Native Americans in the Czech (popular) culture and their representations in Czech imagination between 1948 and 1989. Kvet Nguyen artist exhibiting in the Looking-A-Way exhibition will present artistic research focused on the visual representation of the Vietnamese community in Slovakia through official records and the private archives of the community members thereby revealing some differences in representation during state socialism and after. The short film Kambium1942 directed by artist Denis Kozerawski reveals historical connections with the global colonial order through the exploitation of raw materials from Slovakia that were used in the colonial efforts while focusing on persisting discrimination of the Roma community in the region to this day. 

After the presentations and the screening the authors will join a discussion moderated by the Looking a — way exhibition curator Iva Kovač.

The seminar takes place in the framework of the exhibition Looking a — way: Othering in/of the (semi)periphery.

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Looking a — way: Othering in/of the (semi)periphery is presented in collaboration with the City of Women Association.

ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.

Supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council.

Event Venue

tranzit.sk, Beskydská 3134/12, 811 05 Bratislava-Staré Mesto, Slovensko, Bratislava, Slovakia