[spectre] CFP: Beyond Friendships, Regional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the ‘70s (Budapest, 11-12 May 22)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Zsuzsa Laszlo
Date: Nov 26, 2021
Subject: CFP: Beyond Friendships (Budapest, 11-12 May 22)

Budapest, May 11–12, 2022
Deadline: Jan 20, 2022
<https://artpool.hu/en/news/cfp-beyond-friendship>

Beyond Friendships: International conference on Regional Cultural 
Transfer in the Art of the ‘70s

Artpool Art Research Center and the Central European Research Institute 
for Art History (KEMKI) are organizing a conference in May 2022 to 
investigate the possibility of applying the concept of cultural transfer 
to the field of transnational art histories of the Central-East European 
region.

KEMKI, bearing in its name “Central Europe” and comprising of archives 
of both underground and state-run institutions—which were part of 
different but overlapping international networks—considers it its 
responsibility to open a transnational discourse on current and yet to 
be developed approaches to regional art histories. As a reflection on 
this extraordinary constellation, the conference will approach cultural 
transfer as a process transcending the usual official-non-official 
dichotomies.

With this open call, we are inviting researchers to comment on our 
proposal and present papers that could contribute to the following 
questions:

- Can we, and should we step forward from building transnational art 
histories on influences, comparisons, parallels, networking, and how can 
we apply the concept of cultural transfer, translation, or hybridity to 
the field of Central-East European Art of the Cold War era?

- What interplay existed between official friendship, its 
ideological-political background, and underground networking within the 
region? What role did cultural diplomacy of friendly countries and the 
socialist concepts of culture play in the development of self-organized 
exchanges and vice versa?

- What were the vectors of cultural transfer? Which transnational 
cultural agents, events, communities, and traveling concepts facilitated 
regional exchanges, and what changes and effects did they bring about?

Please send the abstract of your proposed contribution in English (max. 
500 words) and your short CV to zsofia.kokai at szepmuveszeti.hu by January 
20, 2022.
The conference is part of the long-run research project, Resonances: 
Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s 
realized in cooperation with Andrea Euringer Bátorova (Department of Art 
History of the Comenius University, Bratislava), Pavlína Morganová, 
Dagmar Svatosova (Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts 
(VVP AVU), Prague), Hana Buddeus (Academy of Sciences of the Czech 
Republic, Institute of Art History), and Magdalena Radomska (Piotr 
Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central Europe at the Adam 
Mickiewicz University, Poznań).

The proposals will be evaluated by the Resonances research team and 
applicants will be notified by January 31, 2022.

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, 
Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad 
Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable 
regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Beyond Friendships (Budapest, 11-12 May 22). In: ArtHist.net, Nov 
26, 2021. <https://arthist.net/archive/35420>.