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 at the
Centre for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
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, www.artmargins.com and other international partners.
For more details contact the project organiser
Dr. Reuben Fowkes
by email to r.fowkes@mmu.ac.uk
or see the project website
www.socialeast.org
Dr Reuben Fowkes
Research Fellow MIRIAD
(Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design)
Quellennachweis:
CONF: SocialEast Art and Ideology (Manchester, 6 Oct 06). In: ArtHist.net, 27.09.2006. Letzter Zugriff 21.01.2025. <https://arthist.net/archive/28557>.