[spectre] CFP: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945 (Florence/online, 26-27 Jun 25)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

From: Natalie Arrowsmith
Date: Dec 10, 2024
Subject: CFP: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945 
(Florence/online, 26-27 Jun 25)

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, 
Italy, Jun 26–27, 2025
Deadline: Jan 17, 2025

Trading Zones: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945.

The Workshop investigates the trading zone between artistic and 
aesthetic practice and philosophical ideas in Central and Eastern 
Europe. We are interested in artists from the region who are engaged in 
a critical dialogue with philosophy and philosophical ideas (both from 
Eastern Europe and beyond), and whose work possesses transformative 
experiential, intellectual and political potential. We are equally 
interested in philosophers and theorists from the region whose thinking 
engages or addresses art. We view the relationship between art and 
philosophy as a productive form of synergy rather than as an instance of 
appropriation, static commentary, or prescriptive instruction. In the 
workshop, we hope to address the following questions, among others: 
which philosophical traditions and discourses have contemporary artists 
in or from Eastern Europe engaged with since 1945? How familiar and 
aware were theorists and philosophers from Eastern Europe with 
contemporary artistic trends, but also with the art of the past? Where 
have theorists or philosophers tended to conceive of art and aesthetic 
practice schematically, or with too much idealism? More generally 
speaking: to what extent can art and philosophy resist both 
all-encompassing formalism and ideological instrumentalization? And, 
last but not least, in relation to current theory formation: why is the 
interpretation of Eastern European art often still exclusively based on 
Western philosophical narratives, neglecting to take into account the 
rich traditions of theory and aesthetic thinking that exist in Eastern 
Europe, now and in the past?

Transdisciplinary Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 
– Max-Planck-Institut, Florence

Date: 26-27 June 2025
Organizers: Hana Gründler (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max 
Planck Institut) and Sven Spieker (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Deadline: 17 January, 2025

Please send title, abstract (max. 250 words) and a short bio summarised 
in one PDF-document to paul.schneider at khi.fi.it by 17 January, 2025.

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Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945 (Florence/online, 
26-27 Jun 25). In: ArtHist.net, Dec 10, 2024. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/43515>.