SEMINAR NO.5: ART AND EMPIRE

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Miško Suvaković
Miško Suvaković is a contemporary aestheticist, art theorist and ex-conceptual artist born in 1954 in Yugoslavia, Belgrade. He was co-founder and member of conceptual artist group Group 143 (1975 - 1980), and is Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts at Belgrade University. His many influential publications include: Paragrams of the Body / Figure (2001), Discursive Analysis (2006) and Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes and Post-Avant Gardes in Yugoslavia (2003). In 2007 he curated the exhibition Conceptual Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad.

Suzanne Cotter
Suzanne Cotter has been Senior Curator at Modern Art Oxford since 2002, prior to which, she was curator at the Hayward Gallery, London (1998-2002), at the Whitechapel and exhibition organiser at the Serpentine Gallery, London. She has organised monographic exhibitions on Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Paul Klee, with Bridget Riley and Robert Kudielka. At Modern Art Oxford, she has curated solo exhibitions and written on the work of Monica Bonvicini, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mike Nelson, Angela Bulloch, Cecily Brown, Fiona Tan, Jannis Kounellis, Daniel Buren, Imran Qureshi and Trisha Donnelly. Group exhibitions include 'Real World. The Dissolving Space of Experience' (with Wade Guyton, Hiroshi Sugito, Bojan Sarcevic, Paul Sietsema, Katie Grinnan and Christina Mackie), 'Out of Beirut' and 'Seth Price/Kelley Walker/Continuous Project'. Editor of 'Out of Beirut' and the accompanying symposium papers 'Public Time', Suzanne is also co-editor of 'Arrivals. New Art From Europe', published in association with a two-year programme produced by Turner Contemporary, Margate and Modern Art Oxford, for which she curated exhibitions with Pawel Althamer and Artur Zmijewski, Christodoulos Panayiotou and Béata Vezeley. Forthcoming projects include an exhibition of new work by Mircea Cantor, the first in a series of international commissions at Modern Art Oxford in collaboration with Camden Art Centre and Arnolfini Bristol, and 'Transmission Interrupted', an international group exhibition co-curated with Gilane Tawadros. She is currently an external examiner at the Royal College of Art Contemporary Curating programme and is on the jury for the 2008 Turner Prize.


Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
Dr Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, educated at Warsaw and Middlesex Universities, was formerly Curator of the National Museum in Warsaw. She is one of the founder editors of Blok: The International Journal of Stalinist and Post-Stalinist Culture (2002 - ).. She is currently one of the academic consultants, and a contributor to the catalogue of the Cold War Modern exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2008).


Tomaš Pospiszyl
Tomas Pospiszyl has been a curator for contemporary art at the National Gallery in Prague and teaches at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is the co-editor A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950 ( Cambridge, London 2002).

Erwin Kessler
Erwin Kessler is an art historian and philosopher based at the Institute for Philosophy in Bucharest. He recently curated, on behalf of the Romanian Cultural Institute, a comprehensive exhibition entitled Colours of the Avant-garde. Art in Romania 1910-1950.

Magdalena Radomska
Magdalena Radomska is a Polish art historian currently completing her PhD on the Hungarian neoavantgarde entitled The Politics of the Movements of the Hungarian Neoavantgarde (1966-80). She has written on Miklós Erdély and is involved in contemporary art especially of Central and Eastern Europe and Hungary as well as the relation of art and politics, contemporary philosophy with a special interest in Marxism and postmodernism.

Benjamin Cope
Benjamin Cope is Lecturer in Visual and Cultural Studies at the European Humanities University, Vilnius and Director of the Academia Programme at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Poland. He is the co-founder of the seminar ‘Thinking and Capitalism’ at the Polish Academy of Science.

Szacsva y Pal
The artist Szacsva y Pal was born in Transylvania in 1967 and now lives and works in Budapest. He has studied in Marseille and Berlin, and exhibited widely including recently at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, and at Ludwig Museum Budapest.
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