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Fact and Fiction: Art, News, and Propaganda
Sunday, May 10, 2020, 3 p.m.
Zoom Webinar
A virtual discussion about art and propaganda, in partnership with the Pacific Council on International Policy.
"Fake news” and “alternative facts” have become buzzwords of our time. After the twentieth-century struggles between top-down media propaganda and bottom-up media exposures, we acquired unprecedented access to information. Nevertheless, it has become increasingly difficult to separate fact from interpretation. In our current moment, how do we remain (self-)critical in a world of politically split realities? What can art teach us about fact and fiction?
Featuring Robeson Taj Frazier, Associate Professor of Communication; Director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA); Farrah Karapetian, Artist, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, University of San Diego; and Luke Matthews, Behavioral and Social Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School; Co-director, RAND Center for Applied Network Analysis. Moderated by Catherine Wagley, Contributing Editor for Momus.
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Virtual Friday Night Films at the Wende: Viktoria
Viktoria (2014) is director Maya Vitkova’s debut film about three generations of women in communist Bulgaria, and how their dreams and ideals alternately connect them to and alienate them from one another as the regime comes to an end around them. In 1979, Viktoria is born without an umbilical cord to her reluctant mother Boryana (and exultant grandmother Dima) and is consequently proclaimed "baby of the decade," despite the fact that Boryana desires above all to flee to the West. Vitkova captures what unfolds through a beautifully shot narrative with a rich color palette, recurring symbols, and very little dialogue, all of which combine to successfully compel the viewer to ponder the implications of the three women's choices.
Streaming on Kanopy, free with a library card. Get immediate access to a LAPL e-card or LA County Library Digital Card.
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Set design by Georgi Lukashevich for the film The Sky Calls (1959).
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In these times of pandemic-induced confinement, the Wende Museum presents a new series of interviews and mini-lectures reflecting on Cold War spaces. How does space impact the way we live and experience our environment? What did private space really mean under socialism? What was the function of public space between state planning and private appropriation? Who was sent to the secluded spaces of prisons, mental institutions, and gulags? What imaginary spaces were created by art, science fiction, and utopian dreaming? And how did all these spaces change after the fall of the Berlin Wall? This interview and lecture series will explore the many possible answers. Held weekly on Wednesdays at 12 p.m. PST for thirty minutes via Zoom.
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Secret Space and the Stasi: A Conversation with Dagmar Hovestädt and Joes Segal
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 12 p.m. PST
Zoom Webinar
The third Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Dagmar Hovestädt, journalist and Spokesperson for the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
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The upcoming exhibition, Transformations: Living Room -> Flea Market -> Museum -> Art examines how a political watershed moment, the fall of the Berlin Wall, initiated a radical change in the perception of art and material culture. In our current moment of change, we are bringing #WendeTransformations online with a series of installation sneak peeks. This preview comes from contemporary artist Jennifer Vanderpool, whose work is titled Comrades Nikifor and Ksenia in memory of her Ukrainian grandparents. The print portrays an imaginary realism informed by fanciful family lore about their life. She created the composition by abstracting and repurposing imagery from the Wende's collection, complementing it with details from found historical ephemera and her collection of family photos, Ukrainian material culture, Soviet clothing, and lifestyle advertisements.
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