Eastern Europe

• Week 8

What can we learn from contemporary works that were created in a different social context? One of the aims of the seminar is to foster a non-US-centric view on art practices. These artists work(ed) in a more repressed atmosphere and have therefore a political approach particular to their situated vision.

Slide Presentation:
Dubravka Knezevic, street work in Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Roza El Hassan, "Secured Space", Budapest (Hungary) and Marina Avramovic

Reading:
"Marked with Red Ink" by Dubravka Knezevic in Jan Cohen Cruz, ed., Radical Street Performances An International Anthology (London, New York: Routledge, 1998)

Suggested Reading:
Laura J. Hoptman, eds., Contemporary Art from East Central Europe Beyond Belief, (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1995)

Nicola Hodges, ed., New Art from Eastern Europe: Identity and conflict
(Art & Design, No 35, 1995)

Laura J. Hoptman, Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe, (1995)

Video:
Alexander Kluge (and others) "Germany in Autumn" (1978)
"East Germany Opens its Borders" (1989)

Group Project
We have a discussion with the concerned community about the work. II)