[im] Whose Land, Their Art?

[Allan Siegel]

  Whose Land, Their Art?
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  over the Tendencies Exhibition Series (1980–81)

by Kristóf Nagy · Published 10/19/2020

*Money and Morals Then and Now *

While at first glance the Artists’ Unions seem to be fossils of Eastern 
Europe’s state-socialist past, in fact they are still living with us, in 
several ways. First of all, they persist in the dream of a political 
utopia: after the short /belle époque/ of welfare states, the current 
precarization of the cultural sector—especially affected by the COVID-19 
crisis—provokes debates on the possibility of cultural workers’ 
unionization even in Eastern Europe. Secondly, while new institutions 
emerged after the political transition of 1989, the Artists’ Unions did 
not completely lose their importance as integrators of cultural 
producers, or as interfaces between those producers and the state. Even 
more importantly, new institutions, such as the Hungarian Academy of 
Arts, established in 2011, often follow the centralizing and 
institutionalizing model of the socialist Artists’ Unions.

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