Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-Based Art in Late Socialist Europe

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I Geopolitics and transnationalism of art production......Page 32
 1 Beyond “East” and “West” through The Eternal Network: networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe......Page 34
 2 Tactical networking: Yugoslav performing and visual arts between East and West......Page 47
 3 Connection with the world: internationalism and new art practice in Yugoslavia......Page 60
 4 Questioning the East: artistic practices and social context on the edge......Page 75
Part II Locating the second public sphere......Page 88
 5 Basements, attics, streets and courtyards: the reinvention of marginal art spaces in Romania during socialism......Page 90
 6 Performing the proletarian public sphere: gender and labour in the art of Tomislav Gotovac......Page 103
 7 Outside by being inside: unofficial artistic strategies in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 117
 8 From a local to a national to a transnational public sphere: the emergence of solidarity in Poland from a theatrical perspective......Page 130
 9 Surveilling the public sphere: the first Hungarian happening in secret agents’ reports......Page 142
 10 Performance art in Latvia as intermedial appropriation......Page 153
 11 Escape into nature!: the politics of melancholy in Czechoslovakian performance art......Page 166
Part III Facets of gender in the second public sphere......Page 180
 12 Gender, feminism, and the second public sphere in East European performance art......Page 182
 13 Decision as art: performance in the Balkans......Page 199
 14 Communities of practice: performing women in the second public sphere......Page 217
 15 Artistic collaborations of performing women in the GDR......Page 234
Part IV Post-socialist performance......Page 252
 16 Socialist performance replaced: re-enactment as a critical strategy in contemporary East European art......Page 254
List of Performances Index......Page 268
Names Index......Page 272
Terms Index......Page 275