SEMINAR NO.3: ART AND REVOLUTION

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Edit András is an art historian based at the Institute for Art History Budapest. She has published widely on conceptual art and contemporary Hungarian art.

Michael Blum was born in Jerusalem , educated in Paris , and is based in Vienna . His practice involves videos, publications, installations and public interventions to critically reinterprete cultural production and historical memory. Recent projects include: The Monument to the Birth of the 20 th Century (2004), A Tribute to Safiye Behar (2005) and Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. (2006). He has exhibited widely including recently at O.K. Centre Linz, De Appel Amsterdam, Rooseum Malmo and the 9 th Istanbul Biennial. www.blumology.net

Bettina Jungen completed her PhD on ‘Art Politics vs. Art. Life and work of the sculptor Vera Muchina’ in 2005 at the University of Zurich. She is active as a curator, as well as lecturing on the Russian Avant-Garde, Russian Post-Modernism and 20 th Century Sculpture. She is a lecturer at University of Zurich and also teaches at University of Basel.

Klara Kemp-Welch is a PhD student at University College London, supervised by Briony Fer, and funded by the AHRC. Her MA was in Russian and East European Literature and Culture at SSEES and her undergraduate degree was in French and History of Art at UCL and the Sorbonne. Her PhD thesis ranges between conceptualism, Fluxus, happening, action and performance, exploring work by a selection of artists from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The focus is on the political capabilities of these practices as interventions in, and responses to, day to day socialist reality. Strategies of Subversion in Central European Action Art from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s is due to be completed in early 2008.

Dorota Monkiewicz is a lecturer at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology and curator in the Modern and Contemporary Art Dept. of the National Museum in Warsaw. She is co-founder and director of the National Museum in Warsaw Foundation for the Contemporary Art Collections. She is a member of the Advisory Programming Board of the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw. Since 2003 she has been President of Polish Section of AICA. Curated exhibitions: "Freedom\at last. Polish Art after 1989", "Semiotic Landscape", "Potential. Contemporary Art Collections for the Museum...", "Ewa Partum. Selfidentification". Over fifty publications on Modern and Contemporary Art.

Marian Mazzone is an art historian based at Charleston University who is specialised in contemporary East European art.

Malcolm Miles is Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Group and co-ordinates research methods courses in the Faculty of Arts. He is author of Urban Avant-Gardes (2004) and Art Space & the City (1997), co-author of Consuming Cities (2004, with Steven Miles), and co-editor of the City Cultures Reader (2 nd edition 2003, with Tim Hall and Iain Borden). His next authored book will be Cities & Cultures (2007) in the Routledge series, Critical Introductions to Urbanism, of which he is series co-editor, with John Rennie Short. He has contributed to Space & Culture, Urban Studies, and Parallax, among other journals.

Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theoretician who lives in Vienna. He works at the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies) in Vienna and is co-ordinator of the transnational research projects republicart (http://republicart.net, 2002-2005) and transform (http://transform.eipcp.net, 2005-2008). He also lectures at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt. 

Gáspár Miklós Tamás was born in Kolozsvár/Cluj (Rumania) and emigrated to Budapest Hungary in 1978, where he was appointed as senior lecturer and research fellow at the History of Philosophy Department of University of Budapest (ELTE). After having signed protests against infringements of human rights in the ‛communist’ countries and having published an illegal samizdat pamphlet in the underground, he was fired from his university job in 1980 and had his passport confiscated. In 1986 he was allowed to travel and to take up various university and research assignments, including at Columbia University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and London School of Economics. His essays ’are widely read, discussed and criticised – they belong to a genre which has largely disappeared from the West but familiar to those who recall the practice of the philosophes of the eighteenth century. They combine topical issues of social criticism with theoretical considerations and proposals and hypotheses in social theory and political philosophy.’