SocialEast Seminar on
NETWORKS AND SOCIABILITY IN EAST EUROPEAN ART

The Courtauld Institute of Art London
Saturday 23 October 2010

PROGRAMME

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9.00 Registration

9.20 Welcome and introduction
Reuben Fowkes

09.30-11.00
Miško Šuvaković (University of Belgrade)           
Early Networking in 1960s & 1970s: East - West -  In - Out
Sarah Wilson (Courtauld Institute)
The Look of Libé : Cieslewicz and his circles between Warsaw and Paris
Jasmina Tumbas (Duke University)
Gyorgy Galantai and Mail Art

11.00-11.30                        
Coffee Break

11.30-1.30
Angelika Richter (Berlin)                             
Zones of Transgression: A research into the idea of border crossing in the art of the late GDR
Jutta Vinzent (University of Birmingham)                           
Exhibitions as a Public Site for German/German Grass-Root Collaborations
Dorota Monkiewicz (Contemporary Musuem, Wrocław)              The Gallery as an Idea. Participation of Ewa Partum and her Gallery Adres in the conceptual network of the artists from Eastern Europe.
Maria Matuszkiewicz / Ewa Borysiewicz (Warsaw University)   
A space under poetic license - Andrzej Partum’s Bureau de la Poesie

1.30-2.30pm                      
Lunch break

2.30-4.00             
Artists Zofia Kulik (Warsaw), Petr Stembera (Prague) and Goran Trbuljak (Zagreb) in conversation.

4.00-4.15                             
Short break

4.15-5.45
Anda Kļaviņa (Riga)       
On the Edge of Art and Life: Meaning of Bohemia in Latvian Art from 60s to 80s 
Beata Hock (Central European University, Budapest)                    
'Where Have all the Women Gone?: Women Artists? Networks and Trajectories within Central European Counter-Cultures'
Anthony Gardner (Courtauld Institute)
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Re-presenting Sociability after Communism

5.45-6.15pm                      
Closing discussion

6.15-6.45pm                      
Wine reception in the front lobby

Venue
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
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Tickets
A fee of £15 (conc. £10) is payable to the Courtauld Institute of Art, see Booking Form for details Booking Form