KoÅ¡ice – June 2016 – LIVING MEMORIES – Conference

The Living Memories conference is the Final conference of the In Living Memory project to wrap up this three year experience. This conference is organized by PhotoART Centrum in Košice, Slovakia. It will bring together the European partners Lieux Fictifs, e.s.t.i.a, Westerdals Oslo ACT, transFORMAS, INA, and Fondazione Cineteca Italiana to discuss the outcome of the project, draw conclusions from the actions, and prepare future plans. It will also feature a presentation of the "Way We Were" project in the form of a photo exhibition, film screening, projections, installation, book/comics presentation and live performance.

Program Details 

Tuesday, 14th June 2016

East Slovak Gallery, historical hall, Hlavná 27 street, Košice

Main program conference opening

14.00 – 14.15

Pavel Smejkal, PhotoART Centrum

Caroline Caccavale, Lieux Fictifs

14.20 – 15.20 Partners presentation (7 min each)

Caroline Caccavale, Director and Producer, Lieux Fictifs, Marseille, FR

Thomas Louvat, Director, Art Director, TransFORMAS, Barcelona, SP

Michelina Capato, Director, Cooperativa Sociale e.s.t.i.a., Milan, IT

Morten Thomte, Professor in Film Studies, Westerdals School of Art, Communication and Technology, Oslo, NO

Mireille Maurice, Regional Delegate of INA Mediteraneé, FR

Luisa Comencini, Fondacione Cineteca Italiana, Milan, IT

Pavel Smejkal, Chairman, PhotoART Centrum, Košice, SK

15.30 – 15.40

Krzysztof Jasinski, Paweł Gnutek

Postpenitentiary Assistance Center in Nowy SÄ…cz, Poland

16.00 – 16.15 In Living Memory project presentation, Caroline Caccavale

16.15 – 16.30 ILM Mind Map presentation, Leila Delannoy

(as well as the presentation of three methodological tools developed and intertwined together as theoretical and practical groundings for all those who would want to establish collaborative artistic actions from archive footage.)

16.30 – 17.30 ILM project results presentation (video projections)

Caroline Caccavale, Thomas Louvat, Michelina Capato, Morten Thomte,

Pavel Smejkal

(short films directed by inmates and students from the Penitentiary Centre Marseille (France) and the Detention Center Bollate (Milan), Westerdals School of Art, Communication and Technology in Oslo, Norway and Faculty of ART, technical University Košice, will be shown by projection.

17.30 – 18.00 PhotoART Centrum local project presentation

Family archive, performance, projection

18.00 – 18.30 Discussion

19.00 Conference ending

For further information, please contact Pavel Smejkal: pmsmejkal@gmail.com