Conference After Industry: Work Hard, Pay Hard, 29–30 October 2025, Nová Dubnica and Trenčianske Teplice

On Wednesday, 29 October and Thursday, 30 October 2025, a conference entitled After Industry: Work Hard, Pay Hard will take place. The conference is curated by Ivana Rumanová, post-doc at FFA. Contributions to the conference will be presented by FFA assistant professor Zuzana Jakalová, researcher Denis Kozerawski, and FFA doctoral student Jiří Žák.

Work Hard, Pay Hard.
Is There Political Democracy Without Economic Democracy?
29. – 30. October 2025 Nová Dubnica
30. October 2025 Trenčianske Teplice

Participants: Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen (DE), Adam Galko (SK) & Denis Kozerawski (SK), Kristen Ghodsee (US), Petra Hlaváčková (CZ), Zuzana Jakalová (SK), Andrea Kalinová (SK), Lucas Kalmus (DE), Bahar Noorizadeh (Iran / Can), Katja Praznik (SI), Hannah Proctor (UK), Eva Riečanská & Peter Vittek (SK), Nicole Sabella (AT), Barbara Spechtl (AT), Peter Szalay (SK), Kuba Szreder (PL), Sébastien Thiéry (FR), VARIA (NL), Jiří Žák (CZ)

Curator: Ivana Rumanová

Film curator: Barbora Němčeková

Conference “Work Hard, Pay Hard” discusses the current social, economic, and political crises as they are embedded in concrete places. It considers the historical evolutions and transformations these places have undergone, specifically in relation to the post-socialist transition of the 1990s.
The event takes place in two cities in the Trenčín region of Slovakia: Nová Dubnica and Trenčianske Teplice. Being an example of an ideal SORELA city, Nová Dubnica was built on a green field in the 1950s to accommodate workers of a nearby arms factory. This it inspires a reflection on what happens with the ideal socialist city and its urbanism once the socialism is over. Trenčianske Teplice, is a neighboring spa city that provided infrastructure for regeneration and care for hard-working bodies. However, after 1989, it was wildly privatized, leading to the gems of its Functionalist architecture and infrastructures of care becoming victims of real estate speculation.

The program will include the following contributions:
Zuzana Jakalová – Výtvarná Dubnica. The Amateur Art Scene in the Dubnica Region
Denis Kozerawski & Adam Galko – Neutralization of Work
Jiří Žák – The Paths of Czechoslovakian Arms: The Necropolitical Encounters. Art residency presentation.

You can find the complete program here.



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