Tag: ‘fedor blascak’
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Small talk about weather, climate change and globalwarming
friday 10. 2. 2017, 18.00It only seems that global warming trend is relatively slow, but in 100 years temperature on our planet can rise for about 4 degrees.
Precipitation regime in Slovakia will slowly change, there will be more rains in the winter and less in summer. In the winter, the number of days with snow will decrease and [...] -
Pace.V4 Touring Conference
Conference about the relationship between art and politicsPace.V4 Touring Conference has a format of traveling conference, during which participants from around the world visit the cultural and creative centers in the V4 countries. Station Žilina-Záriečie will be one of the venues of the conference.
In addition to presentations of projects Stanica and the New Synagogue, for international participants dancing performance Jara Viňarský [...] -
(Slovensky) 21 dní do volieb – Ivan Mikloš, Matúš Kostolný a Martin Dubéci
diskusia Fedora Blaščáka
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Fear. The Origin of the State
exhibition, New Synagogue/ kunsthalle Žilina
24. 9. - 28. 10. 2015The state originates in fear which does not paralyse us,
but drives us forward towards virtuosness, friendships and sense of humour.
Exhibition lasts 24. 9. – 28. 10. 2015
Artists: Denisa Lehocká (SK), Constant Dullaart (NL), Martin Kollár (SK), Andrey Kuzkin (RU), Zbyňek Baladrán (CZ), Boris Ondreička (SK), Nikita Kadan (UA), Vladislav Shapovalov (RU), Juraj Sukop (SK), Dani [...] -
The Role of Church in Democratic Society
discussion evening of Fedor Blaščák
Thursday 5th February 2015, 6 pmThis topic is actual everytime when a political fight becomes one of the main activities of Church. Everytime in a new historical situation Church is trying to find a way of co-living with actual political reality. We are witnesses of this finding in Slovakia from 1989 as well. Is it possible that we will replace [...]
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On Local Level (Memory Kontrol 1989)
Friday 14th November 2014, 6 pmAnother discussion evening with Fedor Blaščák and artist Michal Moravčík, who tries to find regional actors of Velvet Revolution in his research. “On Local Level” is a voice collection of leaders from November 1989.
Presentation and discussion will be a part of cycle Memory Kontrol and accompanying event to exhibition of Dan Perjovschi Sellected News at [...] -
Who does burn and who does protect archives of “ŠTB”?
discussion evening of Fedor Blaščák
Thursday 23rd October 2014, 6 pm„Communist were sadists and antisocial individuals,” wrote Slovak poet Ján Ondruš in year 1992. It is 25 years after the fall of communism and still there are many key stories which werent handled at all but which has a power to show the courage of ordinary people on one side and cruelty and inhuman treatmen [...]
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How to Win Elections?
evening discussion of Fedor Blaščák
Thursday 2nd October 2014, 6 pm(picture from photography esey Tomáša Halásza Kiska: Way to Palace, magazine MONO)
About communication strategies and tricks. About dirty anticampaigns and intentional disinformation. About work of people who stand in background of what we see and hear when politicians perform in front of the microphones and cameras. Why it is not good to believe everything what [...] -
LOBBY: Who manipulates us?
discussion
Thursday 5. 12. 2013, 6pmWho affects our lives more than we dare to accept on the first glance? They are not secret services anymore but we should ask questions like What has changed since State Security (ŠTB)? How does political marketing work nowadays? And what about the lobbyists?
Discussion evening of Fedor Blaščák (MEMORY KONTROL) and his guests.
Radovan Choleva - [...] -
Tomáš Svoboda: Myself
exhibition, 27. 11. - 20. 12. 2013, Plusmínusnula GalleryMiddle age crisis is a period of life when it’s the best time to understand that we do not need to bother with questions which do not touch us. What to do not to cheaply replace the load of our own demands by crawling urgency of the letargy and overhelming blurriness? To search inside of [...]
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Memory Kontrol: We don’t want you here
discussion evening
Monday 14. 10. 2013, 18.00If we are thinking about minorities in the terms of the “geographical emancipation”, in other words, that they are seeking their place on the earth, where they would feel safe, then Central Europe was not their safe haven during the 20th century. On the contrary. By the opinion of American historian Tony Judt, the minorities [...]
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Memory Kontrol:
Jews in Czechoslovakia (1918 – 1939)
discussion evening
Wednesday 19. 6. 2013, 18.00„Jews all over the world have one admirable characteristic, fixed and conscious consistency.“
Milena Jesenská: Nad naše síly (Židé, Němci a Češi 1937-1939)
Around 1930 Czechoslovakia was one of the few democratic countries in Europe and was on the top of the world economy. In the first republic there were several minorities living on its territory and [...] -
Memory Kontrol: How to remember the Slovak state?
discussion
Thursday 21. 3. 2013, 18.00Discussion with historians and presentation of the complex representative survey of public opinion about attitude towards the period of Slovak state between 1939-45 and about distinction proportion of “Slovak blame” on holocaust.
Discussing: historians Stanislav Chytka, Ján Hlavinka, parliamentarian MZ in Bytča Michal Filek.
Moderating Fedor Blaščák, Memory Kontrol / Jews in Slovakia.
www.memorykontrol.org
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Thank you for responding to our participation
exhibition, November 12 - 16, 2012, New SynagogueThe title of the exhibition is a sentence which expresses the aversion for the outer and inner persecution. Originally it was the equivoke, but it is more than that. It is a useful detection in a situation, where man is questioning why the normalization took such a long time. Or is asking a question what [...]
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Memory Kontrol: Socialism
public discussion
Thursday 18. 10. 2012, 5pmOpinions on socialism and outlasting of its principles in the present time. Well-known journalists, scientists of politics and economy are invited.
The discussion will be simultaneously interpreted into English.
Michal Havran, head-director of www.JeToTak.sk
Michal Polák, an economist and philosopher
www.memorykontrol.org
Entry: 2.00 / 1.00 € (adults / students)
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