UCL Postsocialist Art Centre is dedicated to the study of the art and visual culture of socialism and postsocialism from a global perspective.
University College London
Joined June 2022
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Writers of the Anthropocene: Join artist @AnaAlenso as she talks with @GianSelgas about mineral and oil extractivism in Venezuela, her artistic and research praxis, and her latest book 'What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes'
ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/event… @UCL_IAS @UCLSELCS @UCLSocHistSci
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SAVA: The Vital Breath from the Broken Earth - Sensing and Healing on China’s Fossil Fuel Frontier
16 Oct 6pm
A performative lecture by Beijing based curator & art historian Mia Yu, introduced by Maja & Reuben Fowkes @UCLPACT
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☢️ Join us online for our next webinar on the social and environmental consequences of the #Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe ☢️
🗓️ 20th July
⏰ 4pm UK / 6pm UA
All welcome. Registration details & speaker info below 👇
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🎧NEW PODCAST!🎧Tune in to our new episode of the #BookReviewRoundtable Series: "Art & Climate Change". @nitin_bathla talks with Maja & Reuben Fowkes, @itihaashtag and @tat_schneider. Accessible on your fav streaming platform or here: urbanpolitical.podigee.io/57…
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Colleagues at and around @AnthropoceneUCL are doing an amazing range of things 👇🏽geological markers for the #Anthropocene, history, chemicals, fiction, indigenous ecologies, music, art, socialism…
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IAS Bookfest of Forgotten Publications
6 June 10:15 am–6:15 pm
Join us for a celebration of books by faculty in @UCLSocHistSci & @ArtsHumsUCL that were published during the pandemic and, as such, did not receive the attention they deserved.
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#ForArtHistory2023 #AAHAnnualConference
Many thanks to all who attended and participated in our first in-person conference in four years. We’re so grateful to you all for making it a success! 🧡 Thank you especially to our hosts @uclhoa 🧡
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Join us for the next #SSEES Research Student seminar with Daria Anosova to hear more about the role of art communities and self-organization within the context of a protracted war in #Ukraine.
📅 24 April at 1pm
📍 Online
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ALT Event poster for 'Artist collectives and cultural networks for the reconstruction of Ukraine'. Image: The Theatre of Hopes and Expectation construction work, Dusseldorf, July 2022.
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Epistemologies of the Socialist Anthropocene
14 March 5-7pm @UCLPACT
The natural world under socialism
Histories of Soviet science
Corrosive legacies of nuclear culture
Planetary impacts of militarism
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Artist Jonas Staal joins us for the first research week of ‘Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts’. His work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. ‘94 Million Years of Collectivism’ centres the Ediacaran. Link in bio.
#socialistanthropocene #PACT
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Event on March 14th: A panel discussion exploring the natural world under socialism for 1st Research Week of ‘Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts’ w/ Jonathan Oldfield, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and artists Benera + Estefán. Moderated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes. Link in bio.
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March 13th: Guest lecture & screening of ‘94 Million Years of Collectivism’ by 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐚𝐥 for the 1st Research Week of ‘Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts’, w/ responses by John Sabapathy & Anna Barcz. Moderated by Dr. Maja & Reuben Fowkes. Link in bio.
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Colleagues at and around @AnthropoceneUCL are doing an amazing range of things 👇🏽geological markers for the #Anthropocene, history, chemicals, fiction, indigenous ecologies, music, art, socialism…
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There's still time to register for tonight's event 'Political Gardening' co-organised by the OCCUPY PPV: Politics and Aesthetics @UCLSSEES & @UCLPACT @UCL_IAS.
📆 20 January at 6pm
📍 In-person
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ALT Event poster for 'Political Gardening' with an image of a painting 'Ukrainian garden' by Kateryna Aliinyk 2022.
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OCCUPY PPV #04: Political Gardening
20 Jan 6-8pm
Political gardening will be explored as a strategy for grassroots action in defence of endangered communities
Co-organised by the OCCUPY PPV: Politics and Aesthetics @UCLSSEES & @UCLPACT @UCL_IAS
ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2023/…
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Weather Fictions
13 Jan 9:30–6
**UCL staff & students only**
This workshop gathers notable scholars to share work on aspects of weather & literature, from various perspectives: historical, formal, generic, political, cultural, scientific @AnthropoceneUCL
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…
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Dr. Maja and Reuben Fowkes @UCLPACT discuss Slovak artist Ilona Németh’s documentary of sugar factories in the midst of post-communist transition. Dec 8 @ 12:00 pm. Zoom link here: bit.ly/3EWmtcD
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This Thursday, 12/8, at 12 PM ET, join our second event of Visions of Ecology series on "Sweet Ruins: Infrastructures of the Socialist Anthropocene" featuring Maja Fowkes and @ReubenFowkes @UCL_IAS
@YaleMacMillan @YaleWHC
Virtual/Zoom Register: bit.ly/3EWmtcD
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One week from now! – at Connecticut, USA
On Wednesday, November 30, 5 PM, join @YaleSchoolofArt and @YaleMacMillan roundtable featuring Professor Marta Kuzma, Dr. Sofia Dyak @CUH_Lviv, @murawski_michal @UCLSSEES, Keller Easterling @YaleArch and Professor Craig Buckley.
Location: Loria 251a, (190 York Street)
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