SOCIALEAST
Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe

SEMINAR NO.3
ART AND REVOLUTION
Manchester Art Gallery

Saturday, 3 February 2007, 10-5pm

A symposium on the legacy of political, social and cultural revolution for
art and visual culture in Eastern Europe and beyond.

The third seminar takes as its primary focus the legacy of political, social
and cultural revolutions for art and visual culture in Eastern Europe. This
would include discussion of the role of the historical avant-garde, the
specific trajectory of Conceptual Art in Central Europe, and the
reevaluation of Socialist Realism as an art historical problem in the
context of modernism, post-modernism and the polarised aesthetics of the
Cold War.

Speakers include:

Gerald Raunig (EIPCP, Vienna)
Art and Revolution

Gáspár Miklós Tamás (Budapest)
Why did a Revolutionary Régime Suppress Revolutionary Art?

Malcom Miles (University of Plymouth)
Utopian Aesthetics or an Aesthetic Utopia?

Klara Kemp-Welch (UCL London)
Readymade Rituals: Jerzy Beres in Dialogue with Marcel Duchamp

Attendance fee £35 (conc. £15) includes lunch. Contact: Mona Patel, MIRIAD,
MMU, Cavendish North Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BG tel:
0161 247 6225 mona.patelmmu.ac.uk

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Exhibition:
REVOLUTION IS NOT A GARDEN PARTY
Holden Gallery Manchester 3 February - 28 February 2007
An international exhibition considering the resonances of social and
political revolution in contemporary art.
Artists: Michael Blum (Austria), Nick Crowe (UK), Igor Grubic (Croatia),
Sanja Ivekovic (Croatia), Nils Norman (UK) and Adrian Paci (Albania/Italy).
Curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes / www.translocal.org
Holden Gallery, Grosvenor Building, Cavendish St, Manchester / Open Mon-Fri
9.30am-5.00pm / Enquiries: 0161 247 1705
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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, for more
details contact Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email to r.fowkesmmu.ac.uk or see the
project website www.socialeast.org