Friday 18 May, 2012 - 6pm

Until 6pm.

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And Europe Will Be Stunned (2011) is the compelling trilogy of films made by Israeli artist Yael Bartana, which premiered at the 54^th Venice Biennale last year, making Bartana the first non-national to exhibit in the Polish Pavilion. Revolving around the activities of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland, a group that calls for the return of three million Jews to Poland, Bartana’s films traverse a landscape scarred by the histories of competing nationalisms and nightmares across Europe and the Middle East.

This symposium – ‘And Will Europe Be Stunned?’ – opens up the debates sparked by these highly ambitious and contentious films: with a keynote paper from Gil Hochberg, Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA,a Q&A with the artist and Achim Borchardt-Hume, Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, and a panel discussion with James Lingwood, Director, Artangel, Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and Jacqueline Rose, Professor at Queen Mary University.

Schedule
2-2.15pm James Lingwood: Introduction

2.15-2.30pm Screening of Mary Koszmary / Nightmares (2007)

2.30-3.15pm: Gil Hochberg: Keynote paper

3.15-4pm: Yael Bartana in conversation with Achim Borchardt-Hume

4-4.30pm: Break

4.30-5.45pm: Panel Discussion with Gil Hochberg, James Lingwood, (Chair), Joanna Mytkowska and Jacqueline Rose.

Organised in association with Artangel, who are presenting Bartana’s trilogy at Hornsey Town Hall from 22 May to 1 July, and supported by The Polish Cultural Institute.

The publication And Europe Will Be Stunned: The Polish Trilogy (Artangel, 2012) is currently available for the special exhibition price of £24.95

www.artangel.org.uk

http://www.polishculture.org.uk/

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