The workshop brings scholars and art practitioners together who deploy,
in their theoretically or empirically based research projects, a variety
of conceptual and methodological approaches to working with visual
material.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 26 March, 19.00
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 09-11
Presentation of the video installation Homme à Femmes by Gerard Byrne
(Dublin)
Artist talk and panel discussion moderated by Eckhart Gillen (Berlin)
Friday 27 March
GWZO Seminarraum, Specks Hof (Eingang A), Reichsstr. 4-6, Leipzig
9.30
Welcome
9.45
The visual and the written
chair: Dirk Suckow (GWZO Leipzig)
Gustav Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The visuality of the printed wor(l)d
Zsuzsa László (tranzit.hu Budapest)
Parallel Chronologies: Deconstructing the visuality and constructing the
visibility of East European exhibitions
11.45
Visuality as a battle field of the Cold War
chair: Augusta Dimou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Eckhart Gillen (Berlin)
Andrzej Wróblewski: Art between Modernism and Socialist Realism in the
early Cold War
Adrienn Kácsor (Northwestern University Chicago)
From Socialist Realism towards Socialist Universalism: A Hungarian
experiment with state-sponsored painting
Buffet lunch
15.00
Submerged visualities
chair: Beata Hock (GWZO Leipzig)
Angelika Richter (Berlin)
"Revolution and Erotics." Heike Stephan – Performance Art and
Intermediality
Erwin Kessler (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest)
Art mass: Religious art in Romania after 1989
16.30 Farewell
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Visuality - Interdisciplinary approaches (Leipzig, 26-27 Mar 15). In: ArtHist.net, 13.03.2015. Letzter Zugriff 06.04.2026. <https://arthist.net/archive/9724>.