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Subject: [transversal] Call for Papers - SocialEast Seminar on Networks
and Sociability in East European Art at Courtauld Institute
From:    "Maja & Reuben Fowkes" <fowkes la translocal.org>
Date:    Thu, February 4, 2010 10:11
To:      transversal-list la eipcp.net
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for papers and presentations are invited from art historians,
curators and artists that examine the art and visual culture of Eastern
Europe in both historical and contemporary contexts. The SocialEast
Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art will be held at
the Courtauld Institute of Art on 23 October 2010.

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. This seminar 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. It focuses 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. The seminar
also considers the degree to which state-sponsored artistic events, held
for Cold War propaganda reasons, could become spaces for unofficial
exchange, the roles available to exiled artists and intellectuals in
facilitating international communication, collaboration and the
circulation of materials, as well as the contribution of curators and
intellectuals from the far side of the Iron Curtain in creating informal
networks.

The SocialEast Forum <http://www.socialeast.org> is a platform for
innovative, transnational research on the art and visual culture of
Eastern Europe initiated by Dr. Reuben Fowkes in 2006. Based on active
collaboration with institutes of art history across Europe and the
involvement of prominent academics, curators and artists, SocialEast has
become an internationally-recognised generator of pioneering research
into the art history of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. This second
SocialEast Seminar at the Courtauld Institute follows on from the
SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage held in February 2009 and
co-organised with Dr. Sarah Wilson. Previous SocialEast Seminars have
dealt with issues of Foreign Experience, Art and Ideology, Art and
Documentary, Art and Revolution, Art and Memory, Art and Empire and the
Legacy of 1968 and were held at Manchester Art Gallery, the Ludwig
Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Krakow University, and Mimara
Museum Zagreb.

The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art
is organised in collaboration with Dr. Klara Kemp-Welch of the Courtauld
Institute as part of a three year Leverhulme Trust funded project
entitled Festivals and Friendships: Networking the Soviet ‘Bloc’,
examining unofficial exchange between artists from East-Central Europe
and former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s. The seminar is supported
by the Leverhulme Trust and the Courtauld Institute Research Forum.

To propose a paper for the SocialEast Seminar on Networks and
Sociability in East European Art, please send a 200 word proposal and
biographical note to info la socialeast.org

The deadline for submitting a proposal is *Monday 15 March 2010*.
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