Socially Engaged Art after Socialism

Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Izabel Galliera (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
9781350276680 (ISBN)

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The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity. Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. She demonstrates that, in the early 1990s, projects were primarily created for exhibitions organized and funded by the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art. In the early 2000s, prior to Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania entering into the European Union, EU institutions likewise funded socially-conscious public art in the region.

Today, socially engaged art is characterised by the proliferation of independent and often self-funded artists' initiatives in cities such as Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest. Focusing on the relationships between art, social capital and civil society, Galliera employs sociological and political theories to reveal that, while social capital is generally considered a mechanism of exclusion in the West, in post-socialist contexts it has been leveraged by artists and curators as a vital means of communication and action.

Izabel Galliera is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Design at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research has been published in the Journal of Curatorial Studies and appears in the forthcoming collections Collaborating Now: Art in the Twenty First Century (2016) and Redefining Creativity: Multi-Layered Collaborations in Art and Art Historical Practice (2016).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. Points of Contention: Socially Engaged Art Practice in Contemporary Theory
2. Civil Society, and Social, Cultural and Political Capital
3. Historical Antecedents: Participatory Art under Socialism, 1956–89

PART I FROM SECOND SOCIETY TO CIVIL SOCIETY
4. Civil Society in a Period of Post-Socialist Transition
5. Antipolitics: Exhibitions at the Soros Centres for Contemporary Art
6. Sofia: Participatory Public Art and Emerging Contemporary Art Institutions

PART II FROM LOCALIZED PUBLIC SITES TO EU TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERES
7. Place-Making: Framing Art in Public Spaces Curatorially
8. Representing Counterpublics in Bucharest, Budapest and Sofia
9. Contesting the Politics of Belonging in the Post-1989 EU Community

PART III INSTITUTIONALIZED AND INSTITUTIONALIZING
10. Institutionalized Community Arts Programmes
11. Big Hope: Reviving Leftist Activism in Budapest
12. Self-Institutionalizing as Political Agency

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2022
Zusatzinfo	30 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	688 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9781350276680 / 9781350276680
Zustand	Neuware