[CONF: SocialEast Art and Ideology (Manchester, 6 Oct 06)]

[Kris Groberg]

From:    Reuben Fowkes <R.Fowkes at mmu.ac.uk>
Date:    Tue, 26 Sep 2006
Subject: CONF: SocialEast Art and Ideology (Manchester, 6 Oct 06)



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 at 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)

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