Ivana Momčilović's lecture will discuss the relationship between art and gardening, primarily using the example of the Les Orangeries project that Momčilović leads.
The program will take place on the occasion of the exhibition Silent Spring: Art and Nature 1930–1970, as part of the International Museum Day and the We Are Open festival.
The event is held in cooperation with the National Gallery Prague and the Jindřich Chalupecký Society as part of the Café Chalupecký program, which presents foreign guests from the field of contemporary art.
The lecture and subsequent discussion will be held in English.
Ivana Momčilović is a Yugoslav playwright, poet and researcher, living in Belgium, where she co-founded the Les Orangeries residency program in Bierbais. Her practice focuses on displacing philosophy and art into various spheres of everyday life, such as education, migrant movements, gardening, and permaculture, as well as redefining concepts of the nonexistent, the impossible, and temporary free territories, applying them in the fields of contemporary aesthetics and politics. She explores the relationship between fiction and ideology, as well as between aesthetics, politics, and the “amateur” approach to knowledge and forms of collective intelligence. She is the initiator and active member of several collectives: Collective EI-Migrative Art; Edicija Jugoslavija (a self-publishing initiative), PhD In One Night – a platform for aesthetic experimentation for all, and the Laboratory of Radical Peace. Since 2005, within PhD In One Night, she has developed various methods of knowledge sharing as collective artistic creation, aimed at self-organized groups, children, students, and researchers of all ages.
Admission: free of charge / Duration: 80 minutes / Meeting point: Korzo of the Trade Fair Palace / Booking via GoOut
Photo: Archive of Ivana Momčilović
