Cold War Spaces: An Online Discussion Series
The 12th Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with New York-based Russian artist and researcher Yevgeniy Fiks and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming. They will discuss several of Fiks’s Cold War-related art projects. These include a body of work around the Jewish autonomous Soviet region Birobidzhan near the Chinese border, a series of photographs under the fantastic title “Homosexuality is Stalin’s Atomic Bomb to Destroy America,” and the provocative international exhibition project “Monument to Cold War Victory.”
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An online program reflecting on space as a gateway to cultural history, the Wende Museum presents this series of weekly interviews asking questions about Cold War spaces.
How does space impact the way we live and experience our environment? What did private space really mean under socialism? What was the function of public space between state planning and private appropriation? Who was sent to the secluded spaces of prisons, mental institutions, and gulags? Which global connections were established in spite or because of Cold War borders? What imaginary spaces were created by art, science fiction, and utopian dreaming? And how did all these spaces change after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
