Katalin Cseh-Varga - Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular critical roles that this work assumed under conditions of censorship.

The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time, drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.

Katalin Cseh-Varga is a lecturer at the Universitt Wien and a postdoctoral fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt, Germany. Her research focuses on the theory of public spheres in the former Eastern bloc, archival theory, and performative and medial spaces of the experimental art scene of the 1960s1980s.

Adam Czirak is Assistant Professor in Performance Studies at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on aesthetics of contemporary theatre, visual culture, and performance art in Eastern Europe. His publications include Partizipation der Blicke (Bielefeld 2011) and Melancholy and Politics (co-ed., Athens 2013).

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Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere

Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe

Edited by Katalin Cseh-Varga and Adam Czirak

Edited by Katalin Cseh-Varga
and Adam Czirak

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Names: Cseh-Varga, Katalin, editor. | Czirak, Adam, editor.

Title: Performance art in the second public sphere : event-based art in late socialist Europe / edited by Katalin Cseh-Varga and Adam Czirak.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017048525 | ISBN 9781138723276 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315193106 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Performance artEurope, Eastern. | Arts and societyEurope, EasternHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC NX456.5.P38 P464 208 | DDC 709.040/755dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048525

ISBN: 978-1-138-72327-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-19310-6 (ebk)

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