SocialEast Seminar on
NETWORKS AND SOCIABILITY

Courtauld Institute of Art

Saturday 23 October 2010, 9.30am-6pm
http://www.socialeast.org

The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art
provides a forum for the presentation of new research into practices of
informal exchange and patterns of alternative communication between
experimental artists in the Eastern Bloc. The symposium explores the
ways in which unauthorised artistic ideas were able to transgress
national and ideological boundaries through networks of friendship and
artistic collaboration that flew in the face of an official culture of
isolationism, censorship and political control. Presentations focus on
processes of artistic exchange that took shape at a grass-roots level,
inventive strategies to surmount bureaucratic obstacles, and the
specific meaning of ?networking? in the context of communist Eastern Europe.

Speakers include artists Zofia Kulik, Petr Stembera and Goran
Trbuljak, along with theorists, curators and art historians Mi?ko
?uvakovi?, Dorota Monkiewicz, Sarah Wilson, Angelika Richter, Beata
Hock, Anda K?avi?a, Jutta Vinzent, Jasmina Tumbas, Ewa Borysiewicz and
Maria Matuszkiewicz and Anthony Gardner.

The SocialEast Forum is a platform for innovative, transnational
research on the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe initiated by
Dr.Reuben Fowkes. Based on active collaboration with institutes of art
history across Europe and the involvement of prominent academics,
curators and artists, SocialEast is a generator of pioneering research
into East European art history. The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and
Sociability at the Courtauld Institute is organised in collaboration
with Dr. Klara Kemp-Welch as part of a Leverhulme Trust funded project
and is the ninth in a series of international symposia organised at
prominent art institutions in the UK and Central Europe.

For abstracts, speaker biographies and booking details please see:
<http://www.socialeast.org/>

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