Talk: And Will Europe Be Stunned? — Gil Hochberg keynote (symposium) by Artangel published on 2015-07-15T10:02:37Z And Europe Will Be Stunned is a trilogy of films made between 2007 and 2011, in Poland, by Israeli artist Yael Bartana. It was presented by Artangel over the summer of 2012 in a special exhibition at Hornsey Town Hall in London’s Crouch End. The symposium, And Will Europe Be Stunned?, held at Whitechapel Art Gallery on Friday 18 May 2012, opened up the debates sparked by the films. It began with a keynote paper from Gil Hochberg, Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA. This was followed by a Q&A with the artist and a panel discussion with Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and Jacqueline Rose, Professor at Queen Mary University. This event was organised with the support of the Polish Cultural Institute. To find out more about And Europe Will Be Stunned, visit: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/and-europe-will-be-stunned/ Recorded in Whitechapel Art Gallery on 18th May 2012 Image: Photograph by Marcin Kalinski Genre Event
