Sweet Sixties
Subtitle: Specters and Spirits of a parallel avant-garde
By: Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9783956790393
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Modern Arts; Nineteen sixties; Modern Civilization; Middle Eastern Arts; Central Asian Arts; Armenian Arts; Turkish Arts; East European Arts; Latin American Arts; Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Other titles: Specters and Spirits of a parallel avant-garde
Description: Sweet Sixties is a long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally oriented arts and research groups as well as individual artists, researchers, and media, Sweet Sixties investigates hidden histories or underexposed cultural junctions and exchange channels in the revolutionary period of the 1960s.  In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world full of eerie displacements, gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity. The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs. The stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication. - from publisher.
Notes: "This book is published as part of the Sweet Sixties project, 2010-2013" - colophon

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Sweet Sixties : between the liberation of peoples and the liberty of individuals, or the difficult representation of the self  -- Daho Djerbal; title: Classical art and human resignation in Soviet Marxism  -- Keti Chukrov; title: Sweet Sixties : archaeology of thought in Turkey  -- Ali Akay; title: Art and the iron lung : when sovereignty becomes detrimental and art subtly strikes back  -- Bassam El Baroni; title: Decentered travelers  -- Ana Longoni; title: Northeasternized modernism : notes on an emancipatory modernist constellation in Brazil  -- Catrin Seefranz; title: Speculative revisions of film history : a curator's notes  -- Rasha Salti; title: Registers of participation : two cultural experiments with the contemporary in 1960s India  -- Nancy Adajania; title: National modernism  -- Vardan Azatyan; title: American tutti-frutti  -- Porter McCray; title: Egypt builds : a re-evaluation of the history of modernism  -- Mohamed Elsahahed; title: Black sun of renewal  -- Toni Maraini; title: An operative conceptualism : factography and counter-information in the Argentinian cultural avant-garde of the 1960s  -- Jaime Vindel; title: Missing Ahmed Bouanani  -- Ali Essafi; title: Thaw and the poetics of soil  -- Viktor Misiano; title: The walls of memory : interdisciplinarity and repression in the Soviet Ukrainian 1960s and beyond  -- Oleksiy Radynski; title: Other voices, other rooms--attempt(s) at reconstruction : 50 years of the Balázs Béla Studio  -- Lívia Páldi; title: Mon arabesque  -- Derya Bengi; title: El encierro : project for the experimental art series  -- Graciela Carnevale; title: A bloc of sensations in lieu of geography : Rome-Algiers-Salvador de Bahia (1959-75)  -- Tarek Elhaik; title: Some architectural consequences of political ideas  -- Yehuda E. Safran; title: The militant chapter in cinema  -- Mohanad Yaqubi; title: Melting pot, Versailles-ization, and Petersburg-ization : European utopias in the architecture of central Asia  -- Boris Chukhovich; title: Jeune peinture : The Parisian Third Way of the 1960s  -- Catherine Dossin; title: Nineteen sixty-eight : global or local  -- Emin Alper; title: Blank zones in collective memory, or the transformation of Yerevan's urban space in the 1960s  -- Ruben Arevshatyan; title: Narratives of the 1960s  -- Sohrab Mahdavi; title: The sixties--sweet or bitter?  -- Matko Meštrović; title: Vasarely go home  -- Andreas Fogarasi; title: Desperately searching for aesthetics : Armenian cinema of the 1960s and late modernity  -- Vigen Galstyan; title: New waves and new confusions : the case of Birds of exile (1964)  -- Ahmet Gürata; title: Bir Gecelik Gelin--One night bride  -- Fatih Özgüven; title: Early Algerian cinema as site of international solidarity  -- Yasmina Dekkar; title: Constructing non-aligned modernity : Zoran Bojović, the architect  -- Dubravka Sekulić; title: Oriental waves in Romanian popular music from Wallachia and Moldavia  -- Speranţa Rădulescu; title: De-Stalinization and mass music in the mid-1960s in Armenia  -- Vardan Jaloyan; title: 'Folk' behaving badly : newly composed folk music as popular culture  -- Iva Nenić; title: The Soviet sixties : forms of cultural resistance  -- Hrach Bayadyan; title: Season's greetings : an annotated postcard  -- Rayyane Tabet; title: Why is the experience of Yugoslavia important today?  -- Ozren Pupovac; title: Museum of manufactured response to absence -- Ala Younis.