[artinfo] Fwd: conference: call for papers

[Miklos Peternak]

International Conference
ART AND POLITICS: CASE-STUDIES FROM EASTERN EUROPE

Art Institute
Vytautas Magnus University
Kaunas, Lithuania
October 26-27, 2006


Political art, art as a tool of power and a hostage of authority – these 
questions are hard to escape when researching Eastern European culture. The 
20th century turned this region into a laboratory of social engineering and 
political experiments where boundaries of artistic practices have been 
tested too. Here one can easily find the most radical examples of cultural 
production that flirts between art and politics, the magic and failure of 
avant-garde utopia, the sharpest conflicts between ethics and aesthetics. 
Thus contexts of art practices as well as political contents of artistic 
strategies (rather than pure stylistic qualities and artistic values) are 
under consideration in recent studies of Eastern Europe art history.

An objective of the conference is to bring together different case studies 
on art and politics in order to analyse a complex relationship between 
artistic and political regimes as well as political meanings of art in 
Soviet and Post-Soviet conditions. Participants are invited to consider the 
following topics:

    * Subversions of political art in non-democratic state
    * Cultural policy and culture as resistance
    * In search of panacea: resistance, transgression, appropriation
    * Critique of representation  and creating of new myths
    * Aesthetical norms and/or national style
    * Self identities [autobiography, body, individual mythologies] in the 
sidelines of regime
    * Ideological art and artistic ideologies.

Participants are requested to submit their papers in the form of case 
studies using a particular artifact, event or phenomena as a ground for 
research of a broader problem focused on the varied intersections of art 
and politics. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. A publication of 
conference proceedings is also planned.

Abstracts (250-300 words) accompanied with short CV should be sent to the 
address below by April 20, 2006. Accepted papers will be notified by May 2, 
2006.

Conference organiser:
Art Institute, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Academic Referees:
Assoc. prof. Rasa Zukien (Art Institute, VDU, Kaunas)
Prof. Egidijus Aleksandravicius (VDU, Kaunas)
Prof. Vojtech Lahoda (Institute of Art History, Academy of Science of the 
Czech Republic, Prague)
Prof. Piotr Piotrowski (Institute of Art History, A. Mickiewicz University, 
Poznan)

Coordinators:
Linara Dovydaityte, dr. Jurate Tutlyte.

Art Institute
Vytautas Magnus University
Laisves ave. 53-405
LT-44309 Kaunas
Lithuania
E-mail: <mailto:Linara_Dovydaityte at fc.vdu.lt>Linara_Dovydaityte at fc.vdu.lt; 
<mailto:Jurate_Tutlyte at fc.vdu.lt>Jurate_Tutlyte at fc.vdu.lt


>Delivered-To: peternak at c3.hu
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:12:45 +0200
>From: "Linara Dovydaityte" <l.dovydaityte at mi.vdu.lt>
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>Dear Miklos Peternak,
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>Please, find enclosed the information about the conference "Art and
>Politics: Case-Studies from Eastern Europe" which is organised by the Art
>Institute, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. We would be
>grateful if you share the Call for papers with those interested in the
>topic of the conference.
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>Yours sincerely,
>
>Linara Dovydaityte
>Conference coordinator
>Art Institute
>Vytautas Magnus University
>Kaunas
>Lithuania
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