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*SOCIALEAST SEMINAR * FOREIGN EXPERIENCE IN POST-1989 ART Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest Thursday 7 May 2009 This seminar asks what attracted foreign artists and curators to the capitals of Central and Eastern Europe in the wake of the political changes of 1989 and what is their contribution to national art discourses and the idea of post-national contemporary art? Are we moving from a model of national artistic identities to a post-national understanding of contemporary art? Speakers include: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Nada Prlja, Diana McCarty, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Szabolcs Kisspal, Amy Bryzgel, Lena Prents and Oleksiy Radynski Plus: Minithon of interventions by foreign artists living in Budapest, including: EIKE, Katarina Sević, Claudia Martins, Alexander Schikowski, Catherine Burki and David Wilkinson Plus: Post-seminar Pan European Picnic at the Municipal Gallery - Museum Kiscell with workshop and party programme booking form This seminar is co-organised with Ludwig Museum- Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiscelli Museum Budapest, ACAX - Contemporary Art Exchange and Translocal. EXHIBITION Revolution I Love You International Project Space Birmingham On view until 19 December 2008 Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes ‘Revolution, I Love You’ is a slogan from May ’68 that recalls the exuberance, deep desire for change and belief in the possibility of freedom illuminating a precious moment of universal revolt. The exhibition investigates 1968 as an interlude of liberty and global resistance, focussing on the interplay between the politics of the street, radical philosophy, and the explosion of creative responses in the period. It considers the modalities of the unrest across Europe against the backdrop of contrasting economic and political systems in East and West...(more)	* PUBLICATION * THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF THIRD TEXT ON SOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE IS NOW OUT! Third Text Socialist Eastern Europe Issue 96, Mar 2009 Guest editor Dr. Reuben Fowkes Contributors: Piotr Piotrowski, Misko Suvakovic, Gerald Raunig, Bettina Jungen, Ulrike Goeschen, Lara Weibgen, Edit Andras, Marian Mazzone, Andrzej Szczerski and Hedvig Turai This special issue of Third Text includes essays by leading theoreticians dealing with the problematic of how to rewrite the art history of Europe after the Cold War to take into account the multiple histories of the countries of Eastern Europe. It also highlights the work of a new generation of scholars whose approach to European art history is comparative, pluralistic and goes beyond the binary oppositions that has structured much thinking about Modernism, Socialist Realism, and Conceptual Art. The thematic areas covered range from the modalities of Socialist Realism under Stalin, the achievements of the Post Avant Garde in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia, to public attitudes to the socialist past and recent reflections on the cultural legacy of East European socialism in contemporary art. order a copy BLOG Beyond East Experimental SocialEast Forum blog reflecting on topical issues, publications, exhibitions, opinions and events in the field of East European art and beyond. PUBLICATION Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art Politics and Philosophy Edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes Published by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University in association with Centre for Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts Budapest (May 2008) The exhibition publication considers the interconnection of art, politics and philosophy in 1968 across a divided Europe. It is a mosaic of interviews, statements and essays by prominent theorists, historians, curators, cultural workers and artists that shows the multipolar and interrelated experience of that extraordinary year...(more)	SEMINARS 2006 Art and Ideology Art and Documentary 2007 Art and Revolution Art and Memory 2008 Art and Empire The Legacy of 1968 2009 Art and Espionage Foreign Experience in Post-89 Art PARTICIPANTS Piotr Piotrowski Lynda Morris Suzanne Cotter Eva Forgacs Gerald Raunig Gáspár Miklós Tamás Malcolm Miles Edit András Erwin Kessler Dorota Monkiewicz Zdenka Badovinac Miško Suvaković Tomáš Pospiszyl Andrzej Szczerski Simon Rees Alina Serban Tamas St.Auby Ulrike Goeschen Angela Harutyunyan Anton Lederer Bettina Jungen Michael Blum Klara Kemp-Welch Dorota Monkiewicz Marian Mazzone Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans Lara Weibgen Hedwig Turai Marko Lulić Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Magdalena Radomska Benjamin Cope Szacsva y Pal David Crowley Francesca Franco Daniel Grun Tomasz Gryglewicz Maria Hussakowska Adriana Kiss-Davies Ele Carpenter Katarzyna Kosmala Nancy Jachec Patricia Allmer Nick Crowe Luiza Nader INSTITUTIONS MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University Jagiellonian University Krakow Courtauld Institute London AICA Croatia Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest Pasts Inc / Central European University ACAX: Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange


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