The rebirth of global nationalisms
Discursive programme to accompany Gotong Royong. Things We Do Together
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Participants
- dr Ewa Majewska
- feminist philosopher, art critic, activist. Since 2003, she has been a scholar (with breaks) of Gender Studies at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw; in the academic year 2007/8, she worked as an adjunct professor at the Institute of Philosophy in Szczecin. In 2003, she was a scholarship recipient at the Center for Women's Studies at the Université de Paris VIII; in the 2009/10 winter semester, she worked on a project concerning postcolonialism and color feminism within the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. For the 2010/2011 winter semester, she was invited by Gender Studies at the University of Orebro (Sweden) to work on a project concerning love in the feminist perspective. She studied philosophy, and occasionally romance as well as gender studies. Her doctoral dissertation regarded family in social philosophy, defended at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw in 2007, and was published as a book in 2009 under the title Feminizm jako filozofia społeczna. Szkice z teorii rodziny [Feminism as a Social Philosophy. Essays on a Theory of Family]. Majewska is the co-author and editor of the books Zniewolony Umysł 2. Neoliberalizm i jego krytycy [An Enslaved Mind 2. Neoliberalism and Its Critics] (2007, with Dr. Jan Sowa); Równa szkoła. Poradnik edukacji równościowej dla nauczycieli i nauczycielek [Equal School. Discrimination-Free Education. Manual for Teachers] (2007, with Ewa Rutkowska); Futuryzm Miast Przemysłowych [Futurism of Industrial Cities], (2007, with Kuba Szreder and Martin Kaltwasser); Raport o przemocy wobec kobiet w rodzinie i relacjach intymnych w Polsce [Report On Violence Against Women in the Family and Intimate Relationships in Poland] (Amnesty International, Poland, 2006). In 2004, together with Aleka Polis, she founded the artistic women's team Syreny TV; in 2006, she co-founded the association W stronę Dziewcząt [In the direction of Girls]. Since 2007, she has been participating in the initiative Index73 for the freedom of culture. Majewska is a non-believer, lives in Warsaw.
- Imani Jacqueline Brown
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born in New Orleans—artist, activist, and researcher who creates in order to expose the levels of oppression, injustice, resistance and refusal, which together constitute the cornerstone of our society. She believes that art can drive policy and orients her practice toward the ever-elusive flicker of justice on the horizon, knowing that our world cannot find balance until social, ecological, and economic reparations are won. Brown works as Director of Programs at Antenna (Gallery), New Orleans, and is a co-founder of Blights Out. She is a core member of the (movement) Occupy Museums, whose project, "Debtfair," was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2017 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her writing has been published in “Pelican Bomb,” “Shelterforce Magazine” and “Printed Matter” in the series “Artist and Activists.” Imani received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts and Anthropology from Columbia University in 2010.
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- Clara Ianni
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in her work, the Brazilian artist examines the links between art, politics and ideology, analyzing the relationships between political action and artistic gesture. Using various media – sculpture, installation, video and text – she critically analyzes hegemonic historical discourses by examining their invisibility spheres through the exploration of memory and potential counternarrations as a space of political justice. Clara Ianni completed a BFA in Visual Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo. Her most important exhibitions are "Utopia/Distopia” (2017), MAAT Lisbon, Portugal; Jakarta Biennale (2015); 31st São Paulo Biennale (2014); Yebisu Festival, Tokyo (2015); 19th Panorama VideoBrasil, 33. Panorama de Arte Brasileira, MAM São Paulo (2013); 12th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (2011). Currently, the artist is a resident at U-jazdowski in Warsaw (2017).
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- dr Ewa Majewska
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Curators of discursive programme
- Marianna Dobkowska
- Konrad Schiller
