Conference "inExile"

September 11th, 2004
starts at 2 p.m.

A conference organised by the Tallinn Print Triennial takes place on September 11th, 2004 in Viinistu - a nice village on the north coast of Estonia. The conference focuses on the same topic as the Triennial, inExile.
One of the main lecturers is Maaretta Jaukkuri, an internationally known curator at Kiasma, Finland who has been interested for some time in the blending of different cultures, adaptation, emergence of new models of culture. Another speaker is Irina Cios, curator and theoretician from Bucarest whose paper tackles the movements of cultural people in the 1990s in connection with their career and better opportunities of self-establishing abroad rather than at home. The third is Mikhail Lotman from Estonia who talks about abstract notions such as presence, time, distance, etc. The second half of the conference is a round table, an open discussion with the participation of artists Jovan Balov, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian and Dan Mihaltianu. The conference primarily tackles the experience of free movement of the so-called new countries, and the reasons for leaving home, because decades of existence in a closed country has created quite a different sense of location and home compared with those of the Western world.