Kazan will host a series of lectures "Art and War"

In May,  2015,  Kazan will host a series of lectures "Art and War" organized by the Center for Contemporary Culture "Smena" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan in the framework of the parallel program of the play "The War through the eyes of children. Fragments "   by Kazan State Theatre of Young Spectators.

The main objective of the series "Art and War" is a demonstration of how artistic practices exist and are transformed in a global and local armed conflicts. In the framework  of cycle,   the speakers will talk about the development of Russian avant-garde, Dada and Futurism during World War II, the calamities of war in the works of Soviet and Western artists  of  1950-60-ies, as well as on how  night vision devices, biological weapons, and ultrasound  and other strategic direction of military affairs fall into the territory of contemporary art XX-XXI centuries.

Within the cycle  will perform: Ekaterina Lazareva, Ph.D., senior researcher at the State Institute of Art, a specialist in Italian Futurism and the Russian avant-garde artist, curator (Moscow); Valentin Dyakonov,   culturologist,  art critic, curator, correspondent of the newspaper "Kommersant" (Moscow); Xenia Vytuleva, Ph.D., a visiting professor of the  Columbia University, the curator (New York).

Admission to all lectures free

Contact Information: 249-50-23. Address: Burkhan Shahidi