Archiwum Edukacji #36 - Potential History Symposium. Post Brothers / Matthew Post

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.

Post Brothers on researching the potential histories of Białystok and the practices and networks of anarchism in the region as well as on artistic and curatorial reconstructions.

- Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, an enthusiast, word processor, educator, and (co)dependent curator often engaged in artist-oriented projects or occupying the secondary information surrounding cultural production. From 2016–2019, Post Brothers was the curator at Kunstverein München, Germany, and from 2021–2023, they were an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. They have curated numerous exhibitions and projects across the world, and regularly publish essays in artist publications, exhibition catalogues, and art and cultural journals. They also participate in exhibitions with text-based and performative contributions, and lecture in art and educational contexts across Europe. Born in Los Angeles, they live in Kolonia Koplany, a small village near Białystok in eastern Poland. With Katarzyna Różniak-Szabelska, they co-curated the exhibition In the Beginning Was the Deed (Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, 2021), devoted to the potential histories of Białystok and the practices and networks of anarchism in the region.

- 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.