Seminar: The Plastic Body

This seminar is organised in connection to the exhibition The Plastic Body: Sculpture from Poland 1960-1989at Stavanger Art Museum 28 September 2024 – 26 January 2025. The aim of the seminar is to address recent art historical perspectives on the artists included in the exhibition and to discuss their contributions to the field of sculpture and to contemporary art practices dealing with the politics of the human body.

The seminar will bring together art historians and researchers from Poland, Great Britain and Norway. It will also include a film screening of the work Memories by Touch (2024) by Danish artist Luna Scales.

The seminar will be held in English and is open to all.

Image credit: Luna Scales, Memories by Touch (film still), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.