[Oberlist] Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale

[Igor Mocanu]

May 27, 2011

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*Call the Witness,
Roma Pavilion*   <http://www.callthewitness.net>
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"Call the Witness," designed by
Kummer & Herrman, Utrecht. *


  *Call the Witness
Roma Pavilion*
Collateral Event
54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2011
Organizer:
Open Society Foundations
Realized by:
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
Artistic Director:
Maria Hlavajova
Live Testimonies:
1–3 June, 13–18 hrs
Exhibition:
1 June–9 October 2011

*Venue:*
Palazzo Zorzi, UNESCO Venice Office, Castello 4930
and
www.callthewitness.net

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 *Call the Witness* is the project of the Roma Pavilion, which takes place
as a Collateral Event in the framework of the 54th International Art
Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2011. A makeshift exhibition evolving
over the course of the Biennale preview days through the flux of live
"testimonies"—works of art, performances, talks, and conversations by and
with artists, thinkers, and politicians—*Call the Witness* considers the
situation of the Roma people as emblematic of a world filled with inequality
today, and in solidarity with the largest minority in Europe speculates
about another, hopeful future.
Themselves testimonies of sorts, works of art by the following artists
establish a foundation for the program of live testimonies that unfolds in
the Roma Pavilion: *Lynn Hutchinson Lee* (Canada) & *Hedina Tahirovic
Sijercic* (Germany) (chirikli collective); *Milutin Jovanovic* (Serbia and
Hungary); *Ferdinant Koci* (United Kingdom); *Kiba Lumberg* (Finland); *Aernout
Mik* (The Netherlands); *Nihad Nino Pusija* (Germany); *Marika
Schmiedt*(Austria);
*Alfred Ullrich* (Germany); and *Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor* (Romania).

*Live Testimony Program:*

*1 June 2011*

13.00 hrs
*Daniel Baker*, artist, United Kingdom & *Paul Ryan*, artist, United
Kingdom: *Mirror Mirror* (lecture-performance)
14.15 hrs
*Tom McDonough*, art historian, United States: *Campo nomadi: Constant's
Design for a Gypsy Camp* (lecture)
15.30 hrs
*Maud de Boer-Buquicchio*, Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe,
France: *Roma Advocacy Quilt* (presentation)
16.15 hrs
*Cristinela Ionescu*, journalist and producer, Tumende TV Production,
Romania: *Romani Kris: Court of Common Consent* (lecture-presentation)
17.30 hrs
*Salman Rushdie*, author, United Kingdom/United States (talk)

*2 June 2011*

13.00 hrs
*Roseanna McPhee*, educator and activist, United Kingdom: *No Justice –
Tinker, Help Thyself* (lecture-performance)
14.15 hrs
*Shamus McPhee*, artist, United Kingdom: *Out in the Open* (conversation
with Daniel Baker)
15.30 hrs
*Thomas Acton*, Emeritus Professor of Romani Studies, University of
Greenwich, United Kingdom: *The New Romani Art* (lecture)
16.45 hrs
*Tanja Ostojic*, artist, Serbia/Germany: *Naked Life 2*, 2011 (performance,
24 min.)
00.00 hrs
*Boris Ondreicka*, artist, Slovakia: *BLACK BIRDS & BLACKBIRDS*, 2011
(reading/performance, approx. 30 min.)

*3 June 2011*

13.00 hrs
*Christiano Berti* (Italy), *Nigel Dickinson* (United Kingdom), *Tina
Carr*(United Kingdom/Wales), and
*Annemarie Schoene* (United Kingdom/Wales) (participating artists), *Web
Launch of the Roma Media Archive* (www.romamediaarchive.net)
(talk-screening)
14.00 hrs
*Robert Kushen*, Roma rights activist, United States: *Sticks and Stones and
Words that Hurt: Roma Rights in Quotation* (lecture-bricolage)
15.15 hrs
*Zelimir Zilnik*, film director, Serbia: *Kenedi Trilogy* (lecture and
presentation)
16.30 hrs
*Stalker/ON*, art and architecture collective, Italy: *New Destination: The
Moon!* (presentation)
18.00 hrs
*Opening* with contributions by *George Soros* (financier and
philanthropist, address via podcast), *Jan Truszczynski* (Director-General
for Education and Culture, European Commission), *Robert Palmer* (Director
for Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage, Council of Europe), *Wolfgang
Petritsch* (Chairman European Cultural Foundation), and others, as well a
panel discussion organized by Decade Trust Fund, followed by drinks and an
informal reception.


The Roma Pavilion is organized by Open Society Foundations, and developed
and realized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht under the artistic
directorship of Maria Hlavajova, in collaboration with Daniel Baker (artist,
theorist, and activist, London), Tom McDonough (art historian, Binghamton
University, Binghamton), and Suzana Milevska (theorist and curator, Skopje;
initial idea and title *Call the Witness*).

Supported by:
European Commission, Brussels; Council of Europe, Strasbourg; European
Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam; Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western
Balkans, Sarajevo; Sigrid Rausing Trust, London; HIVOS, The Hague; Decade
Trust Fund, Washington, D.C.; and Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.

For more information on the project please contact:
Esther Deen: esther la bak-utrecht.nl
www.callthewitness.net; www.bak-utrecht.nl; www.soros.org


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