ARTMargins and University of Toronto Workshop Examines Art After Liberation, November 13–14, 2026

Scheduled for November 13–14, 2026, a workshop titled "The Loose Threads of Liberation" will be convened by ARTMargins and the University of Toronto. The gathering turns away from the familiar narratives of rupture, revolution, and resistance that have long shaped scholarship on visual art and decolonization. Instead, it centers on artists whose practices unfold in the aftermath of political upheaval, collective mobilization, and emancipatory aspiration — figures grappling with unfinished projects, deferred hopes, and unrealized futures past. Organizers frame the workshop around what they call the quieter moments of artistic practice that follow such periods. A guiding question posed in the announcement asks how the historical archive might be heard when its volume is turned down to a hum. Further details are available at theloosethreadsofliberation.cargo.site. The workshop is organized under the auspices of ARTMargins, the journal and platform devoted to art from and about Central and Eastern Europe and related regions, together with the University of Toronto.