konferencia

[Timar Kati]

Anatomies of the Mind, the Body, and the Soul: 
On the Work of Orshi Drozdik
Program Director: Katalin Timár
Friday, 22nd February, 2002


Morning Session, Chair: Katalin Timár

10:00 - 10:30
ÉVA BICSKEI (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, 
Central European University): "Those drawings are made by a 
woman who has never learnt drawing and whose greatest wish is 
to get trained in it": National Higher Art Education for Women 
in Hungary, 1871-1908

10:30 - 11:00
ANNA WESSELY (Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology, 
ELTE University, Budapest): Feminist Epistemology

11:00 - 11:15
Discussion

11:15 - 11:30
Coffee-Break

11:30 - 12:00
LEONIDA KOVAC (art critic and curator, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti-
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb): Medical Erotics within the 
Normative Discourses

12:00 - 12:30
ENIKO BOLLOBÁS (Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of 
American Studies, ELTE University, Budapest): For the Love of the 
Woman-Self: Alternatives to Textual and Visual Misogyny

12:30 - 12:45
Discussion

12:45 - 14:00 
Lunch in the Cafeteria

Afternoon Session, Chair: Dóra Hegyi (curator of the Orshi Drozdik's
exhibition, Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art

14:00 - 14:30
EDIT ZSADÁNYI (Associate Professor, Department of Comparative 
Literature, ELTE University, Budapest): Writing on the Body, the Body 
in Writing: A Literary Theoretical Approach to Orshi Drozdik's Works.

14:30 - 15:00
MARTINA PACHMANOVÁ (Assistant Professor, Academy of Arts, 
Architecture, and Design, Prague): Bodies, Technologies, 
Identities: Manufacturing the Self 
(Some Notes on Contemporary Czech Art by Women)

15:00 - 15:15
Discussion

15:15 - 15:30
Coffee-Break

15:30 - 16:00
ANDRÁS RÉNYI (Associate Professor, Department of Aesthetics, ELTE 
University, Budapest): title to be confirmed

16:00 - 16:30
KATALIN TIMÁR (independent curator, Budapest): 
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Taxonomies of the Body and the Soul

16:30 - 17:00
FERNANDO BARENBLIT (independent curator, Barcelona): 
Anatomies of the Soul

17:00 - 18:00
Discussion and Closure



The symposium is organized and financed in collaboration with the 
OTKA T 030767 research project.
Location: Ludwig Museum Budapest - 
Museum of Contemporary Art
Information: Krisztina Üveges 36-1 375 78 48