[spectre] CFP: Session at AAH Annual Conference (Norwich, 9-11 Apr 15)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Amy Bryzgel <a.bryzgel at abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Jun 16, 2014
Subject: CFP: Session at AAH Annual Conference (Norwich, 9-11 Apr 15)

Norwich, April 9 - 11, 2015
Deadline: Nov 10, 2014

AAH2015
41st Annual Conference & Bookfair Sainsbury Centre for Art, UEA, Norwich 
9 - 11 April 2015

Call for papers for the session:
Subversive Practices and Imagined Realities in Central, Eastern and 
Southern Europe since 1945

Deadline: 10th of November 2014

Session Convenors:
Amy Bryzgel, University of Aberdeen, a.bryzgel at abdn.ac.uk
Andrea Euringer-Bátorová, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, 
Slovakia, euringer-batorova at vsvu.sk

In communist Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the building of 
socialism had as its final endpoint a utopia that provided the ultimate 
motivation: sacrifice now, reward later. In its sheer impossibility, it 
was an elusive and illusory dream that formed the foundation for 
everyday life under totalitarian regime. Within this visionary world, 
artists such as Alexander Mlynarcik (Slovakia), Marko Kovacic (Slovenia) 
or Mark Verlan (Moldova), created their own parallel worlds, utopias, 
dystopias, and fantastic domains. In many cases, alternative and 
nonofficial artists’ works served to carve out a unique space in the 
so-called “grey zone” of Europe, which offered an alternative not only 
to state-sponsored socialism, but also to Western capitalism, both of 
which many artists and dissidents viewed with equal suspicion. This 
panel will examine a range of artistic ideas, participative strategies, 
subversive practices, networks and projects (imaginary or real), which 
demonstrate an alternative sphere of thinking and modes of creative 
living, and which possibly attempt to move beyond the classical binary 
systems of West and East – all from within an everyday world order that 
seemed to be set in stone. We also invite papers that offer a more 
differentiated view, even extending to the post-socialist period, aiming 
to re-evaluate the nexus of aesthetics and politics and produce new 
interpretations and analytical approaches regarding counterculture and 
censorship, which explore the relational aspects of following binaries: 
official and unofficial, political and apolitical, permitted and 
prohibited – under totalitarian rule.

If you would like to offer a paper, please email BOTH session convenors 
directly, providing an abstract of a proposed paper of 30 minutes. Your 
paper abstract should be no more than 250 words, and include your name 
and institution affiliation (if any). You should receive an 
acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within two weeks from the 
session convenors. Unfortunately no fee is payable to speakers; all 
speakers must register and pay to attend the conference.

See more at: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2015-conference

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Session at AAH Annual Conference (Norwich, 9-11 Apr 15). In: 
H-ArtHist, Jun 16, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/8028>.

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