Reading Performances. Literary Aspects of Conceptual and Performance Art in Eastern Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/192/468" target="_blank" >http://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/192/468</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2020.0000" target="_blank" >10.17892/app.2020.0000</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reading Performances. Literary Aspects of Conceptual and Performance Art in Eastern Europe
Original language description
The text entitled “Reading Performances” is a revised contribution from the conference on performance in eastern Europe organised by the University of Zurich. It deals with the fundamental difference between the development of this artistic genre in Eastern Europe and the West. While in the West performance became part of the institutional art world in the early 1970s and took place in museums and galleries, in Eastern Europe it survives only on the periphery of institutionalised art. In the West performers were obliged to produce artworks, and performance was mediated by forms of art photography or video. In the East performance remains mediated in the form of rudimentary photographic documentation and text in the form of artists’ publications or portfolios. While the forms and institutions of visual arts are crucial to performance in the West, in the East they are literary forms or bureaucratic and archival approaches that stand in for the missing or unavailable infrastructure of fine art. This hypothesis is supported by examples from the work of Jiří Kovanda, Ilya Kabakov, Zorka Ságlová, Vito Acconci, and others.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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