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Ars Homo Erotica: Ten Years Later
26 November 2020, 6:00 pm鈥�8:00 pm
The event is organised jointly by Birkbeck's Centre for Museum Cultures; PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical), a research and art platforms based at the FRINGE Centre (UCL SSEES/ Institute for Advanced Studies) and The Courtauld Institute of Art.
This event is free.
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The "Ars Homo Erotica" exhibition opened at The National Museum in Warsaw on 10 June 2010. It examined the significance of homoerotic aesthetics and the homoerotic imagination in the history of art from ancient times until the present. This large-scale show had been devised as the museum鈥檚 contribution to the debate on the rights of the LGBTQ communities in Poland, in Eastern Europe, and in the larger world. The idea was proposed by the late Piotr Piotrowski, then the Director of the Warsaw Museum, as a major step of the Critical Museum project, which advocates the use of museum collections and resources to provide a forum for debates on burning social and political issues at the time of conflict.
The exhibition was hotly discussed by the media from Poland to Canada, and was vehemently opposed by right-wing politicians in Poland.
This online debate will focus on the impact of the exhibition, which has been listed recently by Maura Reilly as one of the major events of curatorial activism. But, did it help to realign the field?
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About the Speakers
Tomasz Kitli艅ski and Pawe艂 Leszkowicz
Tomasz Kitli艅ski and Pawe艂 Leszkowicz are LGBTQ-feminist activists. Tomasz is Professor of cultural studies at Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska University in Lublin, Pawe艂 鈥� Professor of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna艅. They married in Brighton, England.
Tomasz studied with H茅l猫ne Cixous and Julia Kristeva, Pawe艂 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Tomasz held a post聽of Fulbright scholar at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research in New York, Pawel was a Fulbright scholar at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles.聽聽Both of them participated in Eastern Europe鈥檚 pioneering lesbian and gay visibility campaign聽Let Them See Us聽and, drawing on this experience, authored a Polish-language book聽Love and Democracy聽with an extensive English summary. Their other books include:聽Helen Chadwick: The Iconography of Subjectivity;聽Naked Man: The Male Nude in post-1945 Polish Art;聽The Stranger within Ourselves; and聽Art Pride. They published with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, New York University Press, and AICA-Centre Georges Pompidou.
Katarzyna Perlak
Katarzyna Perlak is a Polish born artist, based in London whose practice employs video, performance, sound and installation. Perlak鈥檚 work is driven by politics and feelings; examines queer subjectivities, migration and potentiality of affect as a tool for registering and archiving both present continuous and past historical moments. She currently explores 鈥榯ender crafts鈥� methodologies and the relationships between notions of utopia, hope, horizon and the concept of the 鈥榳ish landscape鈥�.
Dr Kasia Murawska-Muthesius
Kasia Murawska-Muthesius is a former Deputy Director of the National Museum in Warsaw and an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, Department of History of Art. Among her publications are Borders in Art: Revisiting Kunstgeographie (2000); National Museum in Warsaw Guide: Galleries and Study Collections (2001); Kantor was Here: Tadeusz Kantor in Great Britain (Black Dog 2011), From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum (Ashgate 2015, with Piotr Piotrowski), and Maps and Images of Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Europe (forthcoming with Routledge).