bal conference 2024 - repeated words lose their meaning

Under the newly formatted framework Art & Science in Dialogue we present the first event: bal conference 2024

Organizers: Alumni Miloš Vučićević together with Hana Čeferin, Merete Väin, Urtė Špeirokaitė, Julija Karimžanova, Ajda Ana Kocutar, Justina Špeirokaitė

bal is a transdisciplinary comparative collaboration project delving into the realms of art and culture of the Baltics and the Balkans. This project serves as an active interspace, fostering diversity tension, and opening avenues for cultural mutation and transformation. The project’s framework encompasses residencies, exhibitions, conferences, and publications while its research extends across all Baltic States and the post-Jugoslav space.

Invited Guests: Augustas Čičelis, Viktorija Kolbešnikova, Sveta Grigorjeva, Nina Dragičević, Hana Ćurak

4 October 2024 | 18:00–21:00 | SCREENINGS
*Location: Improper Walls, Reindorfgasse 42, 1150 Vienna *

Videos/films
Marija Kapajeva, the enforced memory (2022), 13 min
Marija Kapajeva, 10 Ways Not To Become the Invisible Woman After 40 (2020),  8 min
Natasha Nedelkova, Identity Tissues (2020),  12min 26s
Teja Miholič, Nuclear Force is the Most Powerful Force in the World (2021), 3 min
Teja Miholič, So That Humanity Can Survive
(2019), 7 min

5 October 2024 | 11:00–16:30 | PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS
Location: Seminar Raum 2 at Angewandte (University of Applied Arts Vienna), 1010 Wien, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 & ONLINE

Participants: Augustas Čičelis, Viktorija Kolbešnikova, Sveta Grigorjeva, Nina Dragičević, Hana Ćurak
Moderators: Hana Čeferin, Luīze Nežberte

Program (Details here)
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Arriving, coffee, tea

11:30 - 11:55 AM
Introduction, welcoming speech, presenting the new issue of the bal publication

12:00 - 12:30 PM
Augustas Čičelis, Viktorija Kolbešnikova
Queer archiving as (self)empowerment
“išgirsti” queer archive

12:30 - 1:00 PM
Hana Ćurak
Language and ideology in Sve su to vještice memes

1:00 - 1:30 PM
First discussion

BREAK

3 - 3:30 PM
Nina Dragičević
Auditory Poverty and its Discontents

3:30 - 4:00 PM
Sveta Grigorjeva
On being a „female poet“ and an „Estonian-Russian identity-poet“ in 21. century Estonia

4:00 - 4:30 PM
Second discussion

5 October 2024 | 22:00 | AFTERPARTY
In collaboration with the Queer Yugo Pop Party
Location: celeste, Hamburgerstraße 18, 1050 Wien

Supported by
MA7, BMKÖS, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Lithuanian Embassy in Vienna, SKICA, University of Applied Arts Vienna