Discussion
Experimental Monumentality
Event Summary
The Falla sent from Madrid to Moscow in 2019 to commemorate the one sent in 1937. The Falla was built by Fernando Sánchez Castillo as part of the Ephemeral Treasures exhibition, held at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. It was shipped to the Nikola Lenivets Art Park in Kaluga, where the ritual burning took place on August 8, 2019.
In memory of Professor Robert Bird
Many different societies, East and West, North and South, have recently gone through great social turmoil when confronting their own public monuments. Participants at this webinar will present cutting-edge research on experimental monumentality alongside the results of the Neubauer Collegium–sponsored exhibition Ephemeral Treasures (Schusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow, 2019), which studied and performed examples of transient monuments carried out during the Spanish Civil War.
Schedule
10:00 – 10:15 AM
Introduction
Miguel Caballero-Vázquez, Assistant Professor of Peninsular Studies, Northwestern University
10:15 AM –12:15 PM
Panel on Current Research on Monumentality
Followed by Q&A
Germán Labrador, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
Maria Silina, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Université du Quèbec à Montreal; Senior Research Scientist at the Research Institute for Theory and History of Visual Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
Mechtild Widrich, Associate Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute
Nina Gourianova (respondent), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Break
1:00 – 3:00 PM
Presentation of the Ephemeral Treasures Exhibition on Performative Monuments
Followed by speakers’ reactions and Q&A
Miguel Caballero-Vázquez, Assistant Professor of Peninsular Studies, Northwestern University
Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Artist