An Evening with Deimantas Narkevičius

This year, the LUCA research seminar Minima Docta, led by Wim Lambrecht and Jeroen Laureyns, focuses for three weeks on how statues and flags are whether or not contested in public space.

In this evening, which came about together with Art Cinema OFFoff, we turn our attention to three films by Lithuanian filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius – The Role of a Lifetime, Once in the XX Century, The Head and July 20.2015 – which examine the profound ways in which the post-Soviet era left its mark on collective memory.

In a first film, Peter Watkins’ docu-fiction Punishment Park (1971), it was the sadistically forced worship of the American flag that was the seminar’s focus of attention (24÷10). A second talk at BE-Part in Kortrijk will focus on the problematic legacy of colonial statues in Belgian public space with Jan Kempenaers’ series of photographs as point of departure (21÷11).

Introduction: Wim Lambrecht (Head Visual Arts LUCA School of Arts Ghent)

In collaboration with research seminar Minima Docta