Woven Session #4: Outside observer
Iwona Zając & Olia Fedorova
Does activism have to always be direct and obvious?
Often artists face the urge to respond to the problem and at the same time remain distanced. The more painful is the problem, the more emotional resources needed to stay outside. Current abortion law in Poland has actualized the need to reflect on methods and languages artists use in order to address the political issue.
Guilt, pressure, personal choice, private VS public, expectations and power – what it takes to remain distanced outside observer for artists in times of crisis? Artists with great experience of being outside (in both meanings) will talk about it in this woven session.
Olia Fedorova (Kharkiv, Ukraine) and Iwona Zając (Gdańsk, Poland) will touch the themes of artistic observation of the current events, emotional involvement and withdrawal from sensitive subjects, societal pressure to react on important topics and much more. Welcome to the relaxed conversation on painful topic.
Partners:
Platform Tu (Ukraine)
Intercult (Sweden)
Fablevision (Scotland)
Artists:
Oksana Kazmina (Kiev)
Olia Fedorova (Kharkiv)
Maria Pronina (Donetsk/Mariupol) + Alisa Oleva (London)
t s Beall (Glasgow/Dumfries)
Alice Máselníková (Stockholm)
Iwona Zając (Gdańsk)
Woven networkWomen network is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe program.