Gallery 17 November 2007)

SOCIALEAST
Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe

SEMINAR NO.5 - ART AND EMPIRE
Manchester Art Gallery 10-5pm Saturday 17 November 2007

Speakers:
Misko Suvakovic (Belgrade University)
Politics and Art after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tomás Pospiszyl (Academy of Performing Arts, Prague)
The Reception of Czech Body Art from 1960 to the Present

Suzanne Cotter (Modern Art Oxford)
YOU LOOKING AT ME: On cultural mobility and Arrivals: New Art from
Europe

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius (London University)
Cartography and empire: mapping Eastern Europe

Erwin Kessler (Institute of Philosophy, Bucharest)
Avant-garde and neo-traditionalism: competition, cohabitation and
compromise in Romanian art in the
1940s and the 1950s

Ben Cope (Zacheta National Gallery Warsaw)
Art in the Age of Immaterial Production

Magdalena Radomska ( Adam Mickiewicz University)
Art and Empire: Doubly mined semantic minefield

Szacsva y Pal (Hungary)
Empire in Different Colours

Attendance fee £25 (conc. £10) includes lunch. Contact: Reuben
Fowkes, MIRIAD, MMU, Cavendish North
Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BG tel: 0161 247 6225
r.fowkesmmu.ac.uk

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 see the project website www.socialeast.org