SYMPOSIUM VASULKAS RELOADED
The VASULKAS RELOADED international symposium is taking place at Vašulka Kitchen Brno located at the Brno House of Arts (House of the Lords of Kunštat) in Brno, Czech Republic on 22 and 23 October 2024.
It will be devoted to the critical evaluation of the work of Steina and Woody Vasulkas and their significant contribution to the art world including the subject of open archives.
Steina and Woody Vasulkas have always encouraged the idea of an open archive, one that is freely accessible and that can be transformed into a site of collaboration for a wide range of interested parties. They conceived their own archive (vasulka.org) containing contextual material from early video art on an unprecedented scale including personal letters, photographs, grant applications, exhibition costs, technical descriptions, and more. They gradually donated their digitized materials to various institutions and individuals with the hope that they would not only preserve but also disseminate and continue to work with them. These archives are now scattered in several international locations. In doing so, they also explored avenues that turned out to be less fruitful endeavors, such as the creation of a living archive in Second Life. Vašulka Kitchen Brno is also one of the sites where the Vašulka's archive is being processed, where the digitized materials are accessible to all those interested in research related studies.
Among the invited guests are: Dušan Barok (SK/NO, Monoskop), Larisa Dryansky (FR, University Paris-Sorbonne), Christine Hill (USA, School of Film/Video, CalArts), Zach Ngin (USA, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge), Tomáš Ruller (CZ, FaVU, Brno), Miloš Vojtěchovský (CZ, Vašulka Kitchen Brno), Joost Rekveld (NL), or Gaby Wijers (NL, LI-MA).