Post-capitalist imaginaries. A public artist talk and a workshop by Alicja Rogalska

UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio is inviting you to a public talk and a workshop by Alicja Rogalska

Public talk:

Dec 12, 2024, 6pm

room No. 013, ground floor

TCM Mikulandská

Praha 1

 

Workshop:

Dec 12-13 from 10 am

room No. 013, ground floor

TCM Mikulandská

 

The artist talk will focus on examples from Alicja Rogalska's socially-engaged art practice from the last decade with topics ranging from critique of affective labour to creating collective visions for alternative futures and economic science fictions. She will talk about the methods of her research-led practice and how she develops her projects; often conducted in collaboration with diverse groups of people: from migrant workers and asylum seekers to farmers and queer-feminist activists. Through these collaborations, she explores themes such as labour, gender, migration, social inequalities and sustainability using video, performance, and installation. Her projects aim to build solidarity and collective hope for social change. Most recently she has been using speculative fabulation and utopia as methods of critically addressing crises of imagination and narrating desirable futures, especially in the context of the climate crisis.

 

Alicja Rogalska is a Polish-British interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin and London and working internationally. Her practice is research-led and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday; she mostly works in specific contexts making situations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with other people to collectively search for emancipatory ideas for the future. She recently presented her work at n.b.k. (Berlin, 2024), Biennale Matter of Art (Prague, 2024), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2024), Biennial Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2023-24), New Contemporaries (London & Blackpool, 2023-24), Jogja Biennale (Yogyakarta, 2023), Urbane Künste Ruhr (Essen, 2023), Scherben/Berlin Art Prize (2022, main prize), Manifesta 14 Prishtina (2022), Temporary Gallery (2021-22), Kunsthalle Wien (2020-21) and OFF Biennale (2020-21). Rogalska is currently a PhD researcher in the Art Department at Goldsmiths College, was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program in 2020-21, and an artist in residence at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2023), Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University (2019-22), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019) and The Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019), amongst others.

Photo credits: Video stills from The Feast, single channel video, 2022, courtesy of the artist.

For the workshop, please apply by e-mail to ssobot@umprum.cz. Capacity is limited.

 

This project is co-financed with the participation of the European National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture