East Art Map Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

by Irwin

• ISBN13: 9781846380051
• ISBN10: 1846380057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-26
• Publisher: Afterall Books

Summary

The artistic map of Europe contains different degrees of detail and resolution. Italy, France, and Spain are presented in fine grain, but the Balkan peninsula is little more than a vague outline. England, Germany, and Scandinavia have many features filled in, but to the east of Germany things are blurred. Until recently, cities like Sofia, Odessa, Skopje, and Belgrade had next to no definition. Further to the East, Moscow comes into focus, but this is no compensation for the Baltics, sentenced for the last half-century to blank space. In the West, virtually every move of the artist, the art market, and the art public is documented. But in Eastern Europe, no such system of documentation or communication exists. Instead, we encounter systems that are not only inaccessible to the West, but incongruous from one country to the next. Beside the official art histories there is often a whole series of stories and legends about "unofficial," unapproved art and artists. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europeis an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the missing histories of contemporary art in Eastern Europe from an East European and artistic perspective. It is perhaps the widest ranging art documentation project ever undertaken by the East on the East, involving a large network of artists, scholars, curators and critics coordinated by the IRWIN group over several years. The editors invited eminent art critics, curators, and artists to present up to ten crucial art projects produced in their respective countries over the past 50 years. The choice of the particular artworks (many of them reproduced in color), artists, and events, as well as their presentation, was left exclusively to the individual selectors. In addition, the editors asked experts from both East and West to provide longer texts offering cross-cultural perspectives on the art of both regions. Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press.

Author Biography

IRWIN is the name of a group of five artists who make up the visual-arts component of the Slovenian art collective NSK, based in Ljubljana.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Charles Esche
General Introduction Irwin	11	(10)
Part I: Selected Artworks and Events
Colour Illustrations	21	(108)
Introduction to Part I	129	(2)
Livia Paldi
Albania (and Kosova)	131	(10)
Edi Muka
Bosnia-Herzegovina	141	(12)
Nermina Zildzo
Bulgaria	153	(10)
Iara Boubnova
Croatia	163	(11)
Ana Peraica
Croatia	174	(7)
Branka Stipancic
Czech Republic	181	(8)
Jana
Jiri Sevcik
East Germany	189	(9)
Inke Arns
Estonia	198	(10)
Sirje Helme
Hungary	208	(14)
Janos Sugar
Latvia	222	(8)
Solvita Krese
Lithuania	230	(10)
Elona Lubyte
Moldova	240	(5)
Lilia Dragneva
Poland	245	(7)
Piotr Piotrowski
Republic of Macedonia	252	(8)
Suzana Milevska
Romania	260	(7)
Calin Dan
Russia	267	(7)
Ekaterina Degot
Russia	274	(4)
Marina Koldobskaya
Russia	278	(9)
Viktor Misiano
Serbia and Montenegro	287	(11)
Branislav Dimitrijevic
Serbia and Montenegro	298	(9)
Misko Suvakovic
Slovakia	307	(11)
Vladimir Beskid
Slovenia	318	(3)
Igor Zabel
Slovenia	321	(11)
Marina Grzinic
East Art Map Online Proposals	332	(11)
Part II: Essays
East!	343	(6)
Rastko Mocnik
Against Dictionaries: The East as She is Spoke by the West	349	(13)
Roger Conover
Enjoy Me, Abuse Me, I am Your Artist: Cultural Politics, Their Monuments, Their Ruins	362	(15)
Eda Cufer
Myth and Slovene Art	377	(7)
Sergej Kapus
From the Black Square to the White Flag	384	(6)
Jurgen Harten
Art for an Avant-Garde Society: Belgrade in the 1970s	390	(11)
Lutz Becker
Art Beyond the Art Market	401	(7)
Boris Groys
Anton Vidokle
Moscow Conceptualism Twenty-Five Years Later	408	(2)
Boris Groys
A Short History of OHO	410	(23)
Igor Zabel
Neo Rauch: Gravity's Smoke	433	(7)
Andreas Spiegl
Pawel Althamer: A New Pied Piper	440	(4)
Charles Esche
Subversive Affirmation: On Mimesis as a Strategy of Resistance	444	(12)
Inke Arns
Sylvia Sasse
Confidential Community vs. the Aesthetics of Interaction	456	(10)
Viktor Misiano
Constructing History with the Museum: A Proposal for an East Art Museum	466	(6)
Michael Fehr
A Corruption of the `Grand Narrative' of Art	472	(5)
Ana Peraica
On the Re-Politicisation of Art through Contamination	477	(10)
Marina Grzinic
Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today?	487	(7)
Slavoj Zizek
The Post-Soviet Condition	494	(6)
Susan Buck-Morss
Unfolding Geographies	500	(9)
Erden Kosova
Afterword	509	(4)
Katrin Klingan
Contributors	513	(8)
Colophon	521	(1)
Acknowledgements	522	(1)
Index	523