Screening D'EST Chapter #5 We Are Family, Pawilon, Poznań, 24 November 2018. Photo: Emma Haugh
Nataša Ilić and Jelena Vesić at Pawilon, Poznań, 24 November 2018. Photo: Tytus Szabelski
Maha Maamoun, Dear Animal, 2016. Video still, single-channel video (HD), 25’30’’, stereo sound, color, 16:9, Arabic with English subtitles, courtesy: the artist
Vukica Đilas, Home Movies, 1970–199?. Film still, original recording format: 8mm, 50’55’’, sound, color, 4:3, digitalized, assembled, and edited with live-music accompaniment, courtesy: Academic Film Center, Belgrade, 2015
Chapter #5 We Are Family
with works by Anna Daučíková, Vukica Đilas, Factory of Found Clothes, Ana Hušman, Maha Maamoun,Rachel O’Reilly, and Milica Tomić
Curated by Nataša Ilić and Jelena Vesić
24 November 2018
3:30 pm
Pawilon
ul. Ewangelicka 1, Poznań, Poland 61-856
This November Zofia nierodzińska and Arsenal Municipal Gallery invite D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former “East” and “West” (2018-2020) to Pawilon. In collaboration with fifteen international curators, fourty artists, and other cultural experts, D’EST maps out artistic forms of historiography on a post-1989 world, especially from the perspective of female and collective production. On Saturday November 24, 2018, D’EST screening chapter #5 We Are Family will be launched by their curators Nataša Ilić and Jelena Vesić in conversation with respondents and audiences from Poznań.
Entwining autobiographical, historical, and fictional narratives, We Are Family speaks about generational, personal, and political frictions, as well as rifts and entanglements that take place in the dystopian context of the post-1989. The relationship of four figures maintain this tension; the figures of the Guest, the Mother, Love, and the Other. The notion of family as an extended signifier overlaps with the differentiated fields of social, communal, intimate, personal, and political relations.
From November 25th onwards, chapter #5 will be accessible online for all registered users: www.d-est.com
Free admission. Language of the event is English with consecutive translation into Polish. All videos are available in both languages: English and Polish.
PROGRAM
24 November 2018, 3:30 pm
Public Launch
Screening Chapter #5: We Are Family
with works by
Anna Daučíková, Vukica Đilas, Factory of Found Clothes, Ana Hušman, Maha Maamoun,Rachel O’Reilly, and Milica Tomić
Curated by Nataša Ilić and Jelena Vesić
3:30 pm Part I
Ana Hušman “Ručak (Lunch)” (2008)
Milica Tomić “Portrait of MM” (1999)
Factory of Found Clothes “Three Mothers and a Chorus” (2007)
5:30 pm Break
5:45 pm Part II
Anna Daučíková “33 Situations” (2015)
Maha Maamoun “Dear Animal” (2016)
Rachel O’Reilly “Film Note” (for “The Gas Imaginary”) (2014)
Q&A with the curators
7:45 pm
Public dinner and screening of Vukica Đilas’ “Home Movies” (1970-199?)
A zine accompanies the project D’EST: We Are Family
Texts: Nataša Ilić and Jelena Vesić
Drawings and layout Darinka Pop-Mitić
Editing: Jelena Vesić
Proofreading: Selene States
Coordinated by PAWILON, Galeria Miejska Arsenał and District Berlin
Supported by the Senate Chancellery Berlin – Department of Culture and
Galeria Miejska Arsenał
First edition
Print run: 50 copies
D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former “East” and “West” is a project initiated by Ulrike Gerhardt with DISTRICT Berlin. D’EST is also hosted in cooperation with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), the Goethe Institute Moscow, the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, the Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Pawilon, Poznań, and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Video-Forum. This project is made possible through the generous support of the Senate Chancellery Berlin – Department of Culture.
