[spectre] (fwd) PhD position, Re-enactments of Performance Art in Eastern Europe, Aberdeen

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Amy Bryzgel <a.bryzgel at abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Jan 16, 2017
Subject: STIP: PhD position, Aberdeen

Application deadline: Mar 21, 2017

PhD Funding: Artistic Re-enactments of Performance Art as Vehicles of 
Cultural Transfer in Eastern Europe since 1960
Department of Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen
Supervisor: Dr. Amy Bryzgel, Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, 
University of Aberdeen (a.bryzgel at abdn.ac.uk)
Application Deadline: March 21, 2017

Applications are invited for PhD research topics that focus on artistic 
re-enactments of performances from across the former communist and 
socialist countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 
recent artistic practice. There are numerous examples of artistic 
re-enactments across the region, providing scope for a range of 
dissertation topics. Projects can include comparative studies, for 
example, of the relevance of re-enactments in one local tradition versus 
that of another; or single-country studies of a number of re-enactments 
being staged in one context. Dissertations will address the following 
research questions: what are the various functions of artistic 
re-enactments of performances in Eastern Europe? How do these functions 
compare with current understandings of re-enactment in the West? How can 
re-enactments be used to access a lost or inaccessible history (such as 
performance art in Eastern Europe)? Also welcome are proposals that 
consider revisiting culturally relevant or historically significant 
places by artists or within the context of artistic re-enactments.
  Selection will be made on the basis of academic merit. Individuals 
with a strong research background in the field of Eastern European 
contemporary art and/or performance art, from either an art history or 
visual culture background, are encouraged to apply. Applicants should 
have the necessary language skills needed to undertake the proposed 
research, and should consider funding sources for travel to conduct 
field research abroad if it is necessary to the proposed project.

The project is funded by a University of Aberdeen Elphinstone 
Scholarship, which covers the cost of tuition fees only, whether Home, 
EU or Overseas, and will be awarded through an open competition.

Interested applicants should contact Dr. Amy Bryzgel with a project 
proposal of no more than 2,000 words, including discussion of Aims and 
Objectives, Research Questions, Research Context, Methodology and 
Critical Approach.

Deadline for all applications: 21 March 2017
  More information can be found here: 
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=73927&LID=3612 
How to apply: 
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply-1639.php

Reference / Quellennachweis:
STIP: PhD position, Aberdeen. In: H-ArtHist, Jan 16, 2017. 
<http://arthist.net/archive/14505>.

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