[spectre] CFP: Video Art & Moving Image in the former socialist world. c. 1968-present, AAH (Exeter, 7-9 Apr 27)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: ArtHist.net Redaktion
Date: Oct 12, 2026
Subject: CFP: 4 Sessions at AAH (Exeter, 7-9 Apr 27)

Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Exeter, Apr 
7–09, 2027
Deadline: Oct 25, 2026


[2] Video Art & Moving Image in the former socialist world. c. 1968-present.
From: Jonathan Blackwood
Date: Oct 6, 2026

Histories of video art and moving image remain relatively undocumented 
in the former socialist world in Europe (the Warsaw pact countries plus 
the former Yugoslavia). Such histories that exist are conducted on a 
purely post-1991 national basis, or through monographic studies related 
to exhibition or academic research. Whilst in recent years institutions 
such as Tate have begun to re-orientate their collections and have 
acquired some key works of art, understanding histories of the 
production, consumption and discussion of video art in Europe’s former 
socialist world remains partial and disjointed.

In this panel, we invite papers on video art and moving image within 
these geographical and specific political and aesthetic contexts. We 
welcome papers across the timeframe, from the earliest works of video 
art to contemporary moving image and artist’s films.

Papers may consider video art aesthetics, and ecologies of state support 
and use of video art; relationships to national television channels, the 
role and contexts of video art and moving image in response to social 
and political imperatives, critical writing on video, video as 
documentation of performance, festivals, distribution networks, cultures 
of display (galleries/ video art organisations), the intersections of 
moving images and contemporary urgencies such as gender, the decolonial 
and queerness.

Themes: Aesthetics; video art; socialism / post-socialism

The session is jointly convened by Jon Blackwood and Laura Leuzzi of 
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. For informal enquiries please e-mail 
j.blackwood at rgu.ac.uk

To submit a Paper to this Session, please follow the guidance on our 
website and complete the AAH 2027 Call for Papers Proposal Submission 
Form: 
https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2027-exeter-aah-2027-call-for-papers/