UCL Postsocialist Art Centre is dedicated to the study of the art and visual culture of socialism and postsocialism from a global perspective.
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Amazing artist residency opportunity in the Orlicke mountains in Czechia in April 2025 with our good friends Woods - Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art exploring pastoralism and regenerative agricultural practices #artandecology les-woods.net/en/projects/18
In episode 7 of Left to be Desired, Maja and Reuben Fowkes visit the artists Vlatka Horvat (Croatia), Șerban Savu (Romania), and Oto Hudec (Slovakia) in their respective national pavilions in the 60th Venice Biennale 2024.
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Maja and Reuben Fowkes will present the keynote lecture at the symposium on Embedded Art History in A Burning World at Södertörn University. titled '“Forests without Shade and Lakes without Water”: Short Circuits of Developmentalism in the Socialist Anthropocene.'
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We are delighted to announce Saodat Ismailova as the new SAVA Creative Fellow at UCL Institute of Advance Studies.
Born in Tashkent, Ismailova is an Uzbek filmmaker and artist graduated from Tashkent State Art Institute and Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts.
Apply until 15 September 2024 for postdoctoral positions in Environmental Anthropology and Global Socialisms at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) within the framework of the research project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA).
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Episode 6 of the SAVA podcast Left to be Desired features a conversation with artist Zheng Bo on the politics of plants on the occasion of their work Bamboo as Method at Somerset House in London.
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Episode 5 of the SAVA podcast Left to Be Desired now live.
This episode takes the form of a walk around the exhibition Art in the Age of the Anthropocene at KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn with curator Linda Kaljundi.
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Left to Be Desired Episode 4: Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu on the Ecological Socialism of the Future
Maja @majafowkes and Reuben Fowkes @ReubenFowkes converse with Romanian theorist Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu.
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Environmental Futures Lecture Series
30th May, from 3-5pm
Maja and Reuben Fowkes will give the lecture Floral Collectivism, about artistic engagements with the crisis of the forest.
Next week at Queen Mary University. Link for registration in bio.
📍Performative screening of fragment of When Russia Ends and conversation with Oleksiy Radynski and cultural researcher Phillip Goll.
Chaired by Tania Gomez (SAVA UCL)
17 May | UCL
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Conference coming soon!
The Great Transformation of Nature: Extractivism, Terraforming and Monoculturalization in Global Socialisms.
📌Link for registration in bio.
The third episode of the podcast ‘Left to be Desired’ is now live. In episode 3, Maja and Reuben Fawkes talk to artists Nomeda an Gediminas Urbonas on the occasion of their exhibition Partially Swamped Institution. Link to podcast in bio
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The new film of Oleksiy Radynski "When Russia ends", deals with Russian settler colonialism and liberation struggles of indigenous peoples in Siberia and beyond. Produced as part of a collaboration with Philipp Goll and Hito Steyerl at the MdvK for the exhibition Leak.
SAVA Panel on Infrastructural Internationalism
This SAVA panel will consider the physical and cultural infrastructures of socialist internationalism.
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