[oberlist] EE* cfp: Lost and Found Spaces: Displacements in Eastern European Art and Society in the 1990s

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Lost and Found Spaces: Displacements in Eastern European Art and Society
in the 1990s

The sixth Kumu Art Museum’s fall conference focuses on art and society in
post-socialist Eastern Europe in the 1990s.

Fundamental political, social and cultural changes that took place after
the fall of the Berlin Wall and dissolution of the Soviet Union have been
analysed in numerous publications and at many seminars and conferences.
The Kumu Art Museum’s fall conference aims for a re-evaluation of these
changes in relation to the notion of “space” and concepts of “spatiality”,
and examines social and cultural processes in Eastern Europe in the 1990s
through spatial interactions.

The “spatial turn” in the humanities and social sciences in the late 1980s
emerged at the crossroads of critical theory, poststructuralism,
postcolonialism and other intellectual movements that shaped the last
decades of the 20th century, and was inspired by the work of Michel
Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said,
Gayatri Spivak and others. The turn brought about a new kind of
attentiveness to the agency of physical, but also conceptual or imaginary,
space/s in social relations and cultural production. Space was not looked
at as a neutral area or container where things take place and time flows
through, but as something that organises and expresses power relations,
gives meanings to events and is always part of what happens.

Post-socialist spaces of the 1990s can be understood as physical,
geographical, sociological, political, psychological, cultural, virtual or
metaphorical spaces that are not necessarily fixed, but may be fluid and
changeable. Eastern Europe can be looked at as one space or as a
conglomerate of multiple spaces; the culture of the 1990s may be analysed
through creation and destruction, foundation and disappearance,
displacements and collisions of spaces.

The conference focuses on Eastern European art histories, but also
welcomes presentations from other disciplines that help to explain art
historical processes. We are looking forward to both theoretical
contributions and case studies of artistic phenomena from the 1990s.

The conference will focus on five topics:

I Lost and found spaces
Old and new networks in the art world, new practices and technologies,
thinking spaces and utopias, travelling and migration

II Creating spaces
The figure of the curator in the art scene, discursive models of curating,
creating communities, new art events and institutions

III Mapping spaces
Role models in the global art world, conflicts between internal and
external identities, power positions, included and excluded spaces

IV Taking over spaces
New strategies of self-assertion, alternatives for national and neoliberal
narratives, critical exhibitions and institutions

V Living spaces
Everyday life, history and ways of remembering, subjective positions,
gender relations and psychological changes in the art world
The opening lecture will be held by Viktor Misiano. Invited speakers
include Boris Buden (Berlin), Renata Salecl (University of Ljubljana),
Madina Tlostanova (Linköping University) and Larry Wolff (New York
University).

Conference board:
Anu Allas (Kumu Art Museum), Sirje Helme (Art Museum of Estonia), Anders
Härm (Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian
Academy of Arts) and Viktor Misiano (Moscow Art Magazine).

Along with the conference, an exhibition of Estonian art of the 1990s
(curated by Eha Komissarov and Anders Härm) will open in the Kumu
Art Museum, and the third Kumu Art Film Festival KuFF, which focuses on
the film and video productions of the 1990s, will take place. Selected
conference papers will be published in The Proceedings of the Art Museum
of Estonia.

Please send your paper proposals (up to 300 words) by February 15, 2018 to
the e-mail address anu.allas at ekm.ee.

Additional information:
Anu Allas anu.allas at ekm.ee Tel. +3726026056 Mob. +37253403356
Kumu kunstimuuseum / Kumu Art Museum Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
10127 Tallinn

With the support of:
The Estonia 100 art programme “One Hundred Art Landscapes”
European Regional Development Fund


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