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Second Throughts

(formerly Post Eastern Soviet Europe reading group)

What does it mean to be Eastern European (in the Netherlands)? What is our position in knowledge and art production? How can we research our own (art) histories, while they are not included in the Academy’s discourse? How do we live together and define ourselves without sticking to outdated geopolitical terms?

This is a social setting, an informal kitchen conversation, a reading club, support group, a political cafe, an art collective. We are here to be lost and found, to learn from and with each other. We want to stand out and our voices to be heard, our art history and artists to be seen and included, to be here not to prove anything but because it is important. We want to learn about our hidden histories, similarities and differences, to make unrepresented identities visible and expose the complexity of understanding the ‘Second World’.

Past
Second Throughts
Wed
25 May
2022
We Need New Utopias - Remembering and re-mapping languages of resistance across Eastern Europe and the Global South

Talk by Ksenia Robbe, 17:00 @ the library

Second Throughts
Wed
30 Mar
2022
POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY

Workshop/reading/get together, 17:00 @ the library

Second Throughts
Thu
17 Mar
2022
RELATIVELY EUROPEAN, RELATIVELY CIVILIZED

12:00-18:00 @ W139
Organised by Tasha Arlova, Eva Mahhov, Maja Chiara Faber

Second Throughts
Fri
4 Jun
2021
THE PAST CAN'T HEAL US

We are happy to invite you to join us this coming Friday, 4th of June 17:00-19:00, once again to Westerdok 782, kindly hosted by the project space 'when site lost the plot'.

Second Throughts
Tue
1 Jun
2021
Open Call: Marking The Site

Kindly hosted by when site lost the plot, we warmly invite you to Mark The Site and be our reader in residence.The Second Thoughts collective are opening the project space on Westerdok, Amsterdam, for people to stay the night, and participate in the exhibit. The participant-resident can stay there free of charge, 24hours, and we invite you to engage with the content placed in the space- the participant will encounter a curated domestic space with research materials and objects of significance.

Second Throughts
Wed
19 May
2021
Second Thoughts @ When Site Lost the Plot

We are happy to invite everyone for a small and cozy event of our group + tea and informal conversations, this time taking place in person at a small project space called When Site Lost The Plot, Wednesday May 19 @ 17:00-19:00.

Second Throughts
Fri
16 Apr
2021
Dimitri Found Out About Slavic Memes /w Stefan Ambrosie

We would like to thank all of you who joined our evening chat last Friday with Stefan Ambrosie, it was intriguing for us also to see some new faces. If you couldn't join, no worries! We definitely plan to have more meetups in the future, among other things. We'll keep you updated!

Second Throughts
Wed
2 Dec
2020
Second Thoughts #2

We are glad to invite you to the Second thoughts evening talk on Wednesday, December 2 at 17.30-19.30 at Rietveld Academie Gym.

Second Throughts
Fri
23 Oct
2020
What is Eastern Europe?

We continue our events dedicated to a collective exploration on Eastern Europeaness. Our next meeting is scheduled on Friday, October, 23 at 17.00. It will take place at Fabulous Future at Gaasterlandstraat 3, 1079 RH Amsterdam. This time we will read a text by Julia Sushytska “What is Eastern Europe? A philosophical approach”

Second Throughts
Tue
6 Oct
2020
Library talks X PostEurope

After the summer break, we warmly invite you to join our first event this autumn.
The library talks will take place on Tuesday, October, 6th at 17.30-18.15 at Rietveld and Sandberg Library (Fred. Roeskestraat 96, 1076 ED Amsterdam).
We will open a new library corner related to Eastern European discourse and have a group discussion with Eva Mahhov, Patrycja Rozwora, Tasha Arlova and Yuliia Elyas.

Second Throughts
Mon
25 May
2020
Tasha Orlova

At 17:00 we are going to discuss the work of Tasha Orlova. You can watch the rough cut of her short film here:

Second Throughts
Mon
4 May
2020
Misho Antadze

Dear All,

We are going to meet 4th of May on Monday at 17:00

You can join by using the link:

Second Throughts
Mon
27 Apr
2020
Larysa Bauge

We meet (virtually) 27 of April on Monday at 17:00

You can join by using the link:

Second Throughts
Fri
29 Nov
2019
PostEasternSovietEurope

We are going to meet 29 of November (Friday) at 17:00 at Sandberg (BC building 3d floor)

Second Throughts
Fri
15 Nov
2019
Reading group meeting

We are going to meet 15 of November (Friday) at 17:00 at Sandberg (BC building 3d floor)

Second Throughts
Fri
1 Nov
2019
PostEasternSovietEurope Reading Group

Hello everyone,
Thank you, who joined our very first meeting of the reading group PostEasternSovietEurope. It was very pleasant to meet in person, the discussion was very fruitful.

Coordinators/Organizers/Curators

Tasha Orlova
Yuliia Elyas
Eeva Juuti

Formats

weekly reading group + artists talks

Location

Rietveld Academie, Sandberg Instituut, various locations in Amsterdam & on Jitsi/Zoom

Target Group

anyone from or interested in the contemporary Eastern European diaspora

Founding year

2019

Contact
Keywords

eastern europe, post-soviet, decolonisation, politics

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Library talks X PostEurope
Tue
6 Oct
2020

After the summer break, we warmly invite you to join our first event this autumn.
The library talks will take place on Tuesday, October, 6th at 17.30-18.15 at Rietveld and Sandberg Library (Fred. Roeskestraat 96, 1076 ED Amsterdam).
We will open a new library corner related to Eastern European discourse and have a group discussion with Eva Mahhov, Patrycja Rozwora, Tasha Arlova and Yuliia Elyas.

Our collection will start with the following books:

“Archives and Disobedience, Changing Tactics of Visual Culture in Eastern Europe”
“The Light That Failed” I. Krastev, S. Holmes
“Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets” Svetlana Alexievich
“Twilight of Democracy: The seductive power of authoritarianism” Anne Applebaum
“Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in fiction and art” M. Tlostanova
"Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism” Kristen Ghodsee,
and more books are to arrive.

Please, send us a message (posteasternsovieteurope@gmail.com) if you would like to join as due to health regulations, the library has a limited capacity (up to 20 people).
If you are not able to join, the lifestream will be also available via Radio Rietveld
Link to the fb event

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