Ars Homo Erotica: Ten Years Later
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Online
Ars Homo Erotica exhibition opened at The National Museum in Warsaw on 10 June 2010. It examined the significance of homoerotic aesthetic 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’s 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 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?
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.
Itinerary for the evening:
18.00 – 18.10 Welcome
Michał Murawski, UCL, Kasia Murawska-Muthesius, Sarah Thomas,
Hannah Lyons and Will Haggerty, Birkbeck
18.10 – 18.20 Ars Homo Erotica – Ten Years On
Kasia Murawska-Muthesius
18.20 – 18.35 The Biggest Curatorial Challenge: Queering the National Museum
Paweł Leszkowicz
18.35 – 18.50 Ars Homo Erotica and Curatorial Activism
Maura Reilly
18.50 – 19.05 Art Versus Homophobia - the Polish Case
Tomasz Kitliński and Angus Reid
19.05 – 19.20 Curating Queer Russian Power
Anastasiia Fedorova
19.20 – 19.40 Presentation of films Niolam Ja Se Kochaneczke (I once had a lover) 2016
and Happily Ever After, by Katarzyna Perlak
19.40 – 20.00 Q&A
Please note that booking is essential and we reserve the right to postpone or cancel this event if necessary.
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Events Team