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The Conference and Exposition «Avant-Garde and Cultures: Art,
Design, Cultural Environment» develops the ideas posed by «UNESCO
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expressions» (2005) in the direction of actual art practices.
In this context one of the key objectives of the Conference appears
to be the comprehension of Avant-Garde trends as a factor strengthening
cultural diversity and intensifying national cultural identities.
The Conference and Exposition continue a cycle of international projects
of the Arts Department and the Center of Visual Arts and Media at
the State Institute of Management and Social Technologies, Belarus
State University. These projects aim to promote dialogue between cultures
so as to foster modern creative vision and promote the formation of
vibrant cultural environments. The Conference is devoted to World
Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, proclaimed
in 2002 by United Nations General Assembly, following the adoption
of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, and since
then annually celebrated on 21 May. One of the UNESCO objectives
in this day is to promote public awareness of cultural diversity
significance, richness and values.
The Conference and Exposition will include the following aspects:
Correlating avant-garde and national images in the 20th century;
assessing the avant-garde's influence on the cultures, daily life
and environments in various European and world regions in that century;
discussing how the avant-garde became a language of national cultures;
accounting for both unity and variety within the European avant-garde
with he emphasis on Central Europe; Belarus on the avant-garde artistic
map.
The conference also specially addresses the cultural axis Paris–Berlin–Vitebsk
Moscow. Vitebsk and Belarus in the 1920s were home to an exceptionally
brilliant flowering of avant-garde creativity and environmental
formation. Here, around Kazimir Malevich's messianic figure, was
concentrated the search for a new vision in art, that of suprematism.
The conference will address the complex and multi-dimensional analysis
of the theory and practice of leading art schools of the 1920s at
the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, at the VKHUTEMAS in Moscow, and
at UNOVIS in Vitebsk. Speakers will analyze multi-dimensionally
the strategies of art and design pedagogics and the links between
art and design.
Accompanying the conference will be the special events: exhibition
of art and media: «Avant-garde Hyperspace» (created
by students in Belarus, Germany, and France, devoted to the movement
of avant-garde ideas in the first half of the twentieth century,
addressed through contemporary cultural space), and the opening
of the memorial exhibition on the leading figure of Ecole de Paris
Chaim Soutine at his native town of Smilovichi in the environs of
Minsk.
Focus areas of the Conference:
- Contemporary Art in the context of the UNESCO Convention on
the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
(2005)
- Avant-Garde and national (regional) cultural paradigms
- Avant-Garde art and philosophy
- European Axis of the Avant-Garde: VHUTEMAS-INHUK (Moscow) —
Bauhaus (Weimar–Dessau) — UNOVIS (Vitebsk)
- Avant-Garde and Belarusian art in the XX century
- Avant-Garde, design, environment
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