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SOCIALEAST
Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe
SEMINAR NO.1 - ART AND IDEOLOGY
Manchester Art Gallery
12-5pm Friday 6 October 2006
The focus of the first SocialEast Seminar will be the relationship between art
and ideology in the context of the recent history of East European art.
Specific issues that will be addressed include: the writing and rewriting of
East European art history; the role of exhibition strategy, museology and
curating in the reconstruction and reappraisal of the history of art in East
Central Europe; contemporary artists projects dealing with the legacy of the
art of the socialist period from conceptualism to socialist realism; and
theorising the contradictions between national, regional and international
accounts of East European art.
SPEAKERS
Boris Groys (Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory, Karlsruhe)
Ulrike Goeschen (Curator Frankfurt)
From Socialist Realism to Art in Socialism: The reception of Modernism as an
instigating force in the development of art in the GDR
Alina Serban (Curator Kunstahalle Fridericianum, Kassel)
The lost dimension: The collectivization of modernism and the last generation
of Romanian avant-garde
Piotr Piotrowski (Professor of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznan)
How to Write a History of Central-East European Art
ARTIST PRESENTATION: TAMAS ST.AUBY
Tamás St.Auby (Szentjóby) is a Hungarian artist, who in the mid-60s made
happenings and environments, and was involved in both conceptual art and
fluxus. In 1968 he established IPUT, the International Parallel Union Of
Telecommunications, adopting a confrontational approach to the communist
authorities, and was forced to leave Hungary in the mid-70s. He returned to
Budapest in 1991 to join the newly-founded Intermedia Department of the
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 2003 he established the Portable
Intelligence Increase Museum (Pop art, Conceptual art, Actionsm during the 60s
in Hungary 1956-1976), to expose the flaws in official accounts of Hungarian
art of the 1960s and 70s.
The SocialEast research forum considers the art and visual culture of Eastern
Europe from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall,
through collaborative projects, exhibitions and seminars. The project is
organised by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University in collaboration with
Pasts Inc. Central European University, the Institute of Art History Zagreb and
other international partners. For more details contact the project organiser
Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see the project website
www.socialeast.org
Dr Reuben Fowkes
Research Fellow MIRIAD
(Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design),
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