Miroslaw Balka & Antony Gormley at The Imperial War Museum

9 Jun 2010

Miroslaw Balka and Antony Gormley will be participating in ‘The Politics of Memory’, a conference to be held on Wednesday 9 June at London’s Imperial War Museum.

Organised by the Imperial War Museum and the Polish Cultural Institute, with support from the Henry Moore Foundation, ‘The Politics of Memory’ will bring together artists, cultural historians and museum professionals to debate some of the implications of the International Competition for a ‘Memorial to the Victims of Fascism’, organised in 1959 at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Though its fiftieth anniversary went unnoticed last year, the competition tells us much about the divergent attitudes to commemorative sculpture, and questions surrounding how to memorialise an event such as the Holocaust remain as relevant today as they were in Cold-War Europe. Alongside other invited artists, Miroslaw Balka and Antony Gormley will be discussing their approaches to the making of new memorials.

Other speakers include Zygmunt Bauman (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds), Richard Cavororessi (Director, The Henry Moore Foundation), Langlands and Bell (artists), Miroslaw Nizio (museum and exhibition designer), Agnieszka Rudzinska (Deputy Director, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw) and Roger Tolson (Head of Art, Imperial War Museum).

Admission is free but advance booking is advised. For tickets, e-mail politicsofmemory@polishculture.org.uk, stating ‘The Politics of Memory’ as subject.

Miroslaw Balka, Antony Gormley: ‘The Politics of Memory’
Imperial War Museum, London
Wednesday 9 June 2010 09.30am - 5pm

Miroslaw Balka,, "52 x 360 x 25" 2004 Steel, rope and hair 52 x 360 x 25 cm Photo: Hugo Glendinning

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