Archiwum Edukacji #40 - Potential History Symposium. Andrea Průchová Hrůzová

Weekend international symposium with participation of artists, curators and invited speakers who have been engaged for years in both theoretical and practical fields (artistic, curatorial, academic, activist) of potential history. They all have worked at the complex and creative intersections of topographies, methodologies, heritages, languages and politics. Drawing on this experience, they will share their research and engagement and will discuss possible scenarios of collaboration and solidarity, refusal and resistance to dominant narratives, affects and aesthetics in the face of violent forms of feeling and representation.

Andrea Průchová Hrůzová, on her involvement in the collective research on discourses of decolonization and racial (in)justice in the Central and Southeast Europe and the potential risks of academic and artistic activism.

- Andrea Průchová Hrůzová is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate professor of visual, cultural, and media sociology at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague. She is a founder of the visual research platform Fresh Eye and works in the fields of historical and digital visual culture and memory studies. Her research work has been published in journals like the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Visual Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies and in international publishing houses. She has translated Berger’s Ways of Seeing, co-translated WJT Mitchell’s Picture Theory, Nicholas Mirzoeff’s How to See the World, and Jonas Mekas’ Scrapbook of the Sixties into Czech. She is the author of V zajetí obrazů. Vizuální politika 21. století [Caught by images. Visual politics of the 21st century] (2024), and editor of Public Narratives of Decolonization and Racial (In)Justice in Central and Southeast Europe. Colonies and Enemies, Riots and Patriots (forthcoming in 2025).

- Curator of the programme: Katarzyna (Kasia) Bojarska, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies of the SWPS University in Warsaw. Founder and head of Center for Comparative Research on Memory Cultures (CCRMC). Co-founder and editor of View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture journal. Scholar of visual culture, contemporary art and memory cultures. Translated among others Michael Rothberg’s Multidirectional Memory. Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2016). Author of a book Wydarzenia po Wydarzeniu: Białoszewski – Richter – Spiegelman [Events after the event: Białoszewski – Richter – Spiegelman] (2012). Editor and translator (among others) of Ernst van Alphen’s Criticism as Intervention: Art, Memory, Affect book (Polish edition 2019). Member of the Polish section of AICA.