Filmvorführung
D’EST: Alyosha and the Rose Queen – Gestures of De-Monumentality

Fr, 01.11.2019
19:00 Uhr Lucky Cinema House

Screening with works by: Tal Alperstein and Julia Turbahn, Gery Georgieva, Szabolcs KissPál, Ilona Németh, Eglė Rakauskaitė / Rakė and Adnan Softić.

D’EST presents a video art program with selected works that are dedicated to an expanded, critical and performative perspective on monuments. Drawn from the D’EST platform and elsewere, these works showcase an artistic as well as civic reappropriation of the public sphere and aim to deconstruct the symbolic power of monuments through subtle gestures.

This event is part of the symposium Нестабилни монументи | Unstable Monuments produced within the ADATA artist-in-residence program of Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019

About D’EST

• Jana Seehusen’s practice as an artist and writer focuses on modes of language and action in relation to concepts of in-betweenness, otherness, and transitionings. Her work in the field of art theory, aesthetic theory in film, and cultural studies relates to questions on in/visibility, subject and gender theory, and identity politics. Recent works include: Visualität und Abstraktion ([eng. Visuality and Abstraction], publication with Hanne Loreck, 2017) and Nature plays so many queer tricks upon us (performance with Katrin Mayer, 2019)


• Ulrike Gerhardt is the artistic director of D’EST (2018-2020), an online platform dedicated to video art from the former ‘East’ and ‘West.’ As a cultural studies scholar and curator, she is currently researching cultural memory concerning post-socialist transformation within the framework of her PhD project at Leuphana University Lüneburg.