FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT: ART / KNOWLEDGE / POLITICS

The first “solidarity action” organized by the Istituto Svizzero di Roma consists of two days of debates to create a bridge between the experiences of Eastern Europe – already presented and discussed in the context of the Berlin Biennale – and the activities of the Roman collective ESC, through the experience of the self-training laboratory and research LUM – Libera Università Metropolitana.

For an introduction to the Berlin Biennale and in particular for the series of “solidarity actions” that will be activated by the Istituto Svizzero di Roma, on March 23 Igor Stokfiszewski (literary critic, editor and playwright, member of the 7. Berlin Biennale team) and Salvatore Lacagnina (Head of Arts Programming at the ISR), will discuss the forms of responsibility and possible intervention of art in the social and political realities, through the work of Artur Żmijewski. The event takes place at Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Via Ludovisi 48, Rome).

THE EFFECTS ON ART

The first screening in Italy of Them (2007) by Artur Żmijewski

Talk between Igor Stokfiszewski (literary critic, editor and playwright, member of the 7. Berlin Biennale team) and Salvatore Lacagnina (Head of Arts Programming at the ISR)

6 - 6.30 pm

Artur Żmijewski, Them (2007), 26’30” (with English subtitles)

6.30- 7.15 pm

Salvatore Lacagnina in conversation with Igor Stokfiszewski

7.15 – 8 pm

Talk: Opening the discussion will be Fabrizio Sabelli (anthropologist): L’arte dei nuovi movimenti* (“The art of the new movements”)

20 – 22 pm

Artur Żmijewski: Screenings

Them (2007), 26’30” (with Engl. subtitles)

Democracies (2009), 20 video-documentaries, overall duration 146’ (with Engl. subtitles)

Selected works (2007), 10 video, 16’ each (with Engl. subtitles)