Left performance histories
Subtitle: recollecting artistic practices in Eastern Europe : Buch zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung = based on the exhibition of the same name
By: Judit Bodor, Adam Czirak, Astrid Hackel, Beáta Hock, Andrej Mircev, Angelika Richter
Contributors: Mirčev, Andrej, 1979- contributor; Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Publisher: nGbK
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9783938515723
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Performance art; Exhibitions; Themes, motives; Gender identity in art; Political aspects
Other titles: Left performance histories.; Left performance histories. English
Description: Challenging the assumption that the unofficial art scene in state socialist Europe was only subversive and oppositional, this publication offers alternative readings. Left Performance Histories explores artistic positions that, while critical of actually existing socialism, were grounded in Marxist and communist ideas. Performance/art was not a mirror of tristesse but a site of jouissance, where social conventions concerning gender identity, sexuality and beauty were playfully undermined. But what do performances leave in their wake? And how should we situate their legacies in the context of archives, exhibitions and academic and artistic practice? These are some of the questions that this book sets out to answer. --Publisher.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 3 February-25 March 2018.

With works by: Vlasta Delimar, Orshi Drozdik, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Jürgen Hohmuth (chic, charmant und dauerhaft /ccd), Sanja Iveković, El Kazovszkij, Exterra XX, Judit Kele, Tamás Király, László Lakner, Zbigniew Libera, Marijan Molnar, Sven Marquardt, Ewa Partum, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Christine Schlegel, Hans-Joachim Schulze & Peter Oehlmann (Gruppe 37,2), Irmgard Senf, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović, Gabriele Stötzer, Tamás Szentjóby, Bálint Szombathy, Raša Todosijević, Želimir Žilnik.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts (some parallel) in German and English.