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***CALL FOR PAPERS *** NETWORKS AND SOCIABILITY IN EAST EUROPEAN ART
The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art provides a forum for the presentation of new research into practices of informal exchange and patterns of alternative communication between experimental artists in the Eastern Bloc. This seminar explores the ways in which unauthorised artistic ideas were able to transgress national and ideological boundaries through networks of friendship and artistic collaboration that flew in the face of an official culture of isolationism, censorship and political control. It focuses on processes of artistic exchange that took shape at a grass-roots level, inventive strategies to surmount bureaucratic obstacles, and the specific meaning of ‘networking’ in the context of communist Eastern Europe. The seminar also considers the degree to which state-sponsored artistic events, held for Cold War propaganda reasons, could become spaces for unofficial exchange, the roles available to exiled artists and intellectuals in facilitating international communication, collaboration and the circulation of materials, as well as the contribution of curators and intellectuals from the far side of the Iron Curtain in creating informal networks. To suggest a paper for the SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art, please send a 200 word proposal and biographical note to info@socialeast.org The deadline for submitting a proposal is Monday 15 March 2010. The SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe was set up in order to address the many pertinent questions arising from the ongoing reconsideration of the history of art in Central and Eastern Europe. This project, which was initiated in 2006 at Manchester Metropolitan University by Dr. Reuben Fowkes, has from the outset been based on the principles of interdisciplinarity, transnationality and intellectual collaboration, reflecting a desire to generate alternative research structures and promote critical approaches to dominant (yet contested) art historical narratives produced under the influence of Cold War politics...(more) |
*** PUBLICATION *** 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. 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 Published by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University 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)
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SEMINARS 2006 2007 2008 2009 PARTICIPANTS Piotr Piotrowski INSTITUTIONS MIRIAD Jagiellonian University ACAX: Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange
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