Subject: CONF: Rethinking the (Post-)Socialist Body (online/Florence,
28-30 Sep 23)
online & Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut,
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Firenze, Italia,
Sep 28–30, 2023
"Rethinking the (Post-)Socialist Body. Art, Theory & Politics".
Transdisciplinary Workshop organised by Oliver Aas, Hana Gründler and
Magdalena Nieslony.
TO PARTICIPATE ONLINE PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE VIA ZOOM:
t1p.de/rethinking-post-socialist-body
Abstract:
The importance of body politics is once again undeniable: the
idealization or vilification of bodies on ideological grounds,
restrictions on abortion rights, and the continued exploitation of
migrant bodies and labor are global phenomena. Even though the body has
long stood central to cultural, social and political struggles in
Eastern Europe, these current phenomena also shed new light on the
political meanings of the body and its representations in the former
socialist countries of Europe. This is visible today in the return of
the heroic body in the media iconography of the Ukrainian war as well as
in women’s fight for bodily autonomy across different post-socialist
countries. The question of the visibility or the invisibility of bodies
– and the many degrees in between, up to what could be called a
hyper-visibility – thus was and remains of central aesthetic, ethical
and political concern. And it is not surprising that the body has, in
great detail, also been a subject of art, philosophy, and literature.
Given how rich and complex the relationship between the body and visual
culture in East-Central Europe is, we need to flesh out a novel
reflection of body in its temporal, phenomenological, aesthetic,
philosophical and political multiplicity. Thus, this workshop aims to
revisit the (post-)socialist body in East-Central European art, discuss
its relation to and transformation of well-established artistic and
theoretical discourses and international networks as well as shed light
on reflections and notions of the body in other disciplines – including
philosophy, literature, ethnography and others. Working through case
studies that breach geographic and theoretical boundaries, ranging from
the Baltics to Yugoslavia, the conference adds to the on-going
conversation around the legacy of socialism by expanding the already
accepted conceptual frames and theoretical foundations through which we
have hitherto rendered the body legible.
Thursday, 28.9
14.30–15.00
Oliver Aas, Hana Gründler and Magdalena Nieslony, Welcome and Introduction
Resistant and Protesting Bodies
15.00–15.45
Anja Förschner, ‘Possibilities of Resistance’. Meje Kontrole št. 4 and
queer Yugoslavia
15.45–16.30
[ONLINE] Emily Curtin, Bodies Lead the Way. Anti-Authoritarian Protest
in Post-Soviet Belarus
BREAK
From Individual to Collective?
17.00–17.45
Karel Císař, The Body, the Thing and the Real. On Phenomenological
Interpretations of Body and Corporeality in American and Czechoslovak
Art of the 1970s
17.45–18.30
Andres Kurg, Relations without Purpose. Communication and the Body in
Late Soviet Architecture
Friday, 29.9
The Collective Body
9.30–10.15
Biljana Purić, Revisiting the Collective Body in Contemporary Art
10.15–11.00
Anna Markowska, Moving Over. Exercises for Recreating a Collective Body
BREAK
Shaping the Socialist Body
11.30–12.15
Johana Lomova, Imprint of Socialist Body. The Role of Czechoslovak
Artists in the Process of Humanization of Factory Work
12.15–13.00
Amir Saifullin, The Projectionist Theatre. Body-Images and Bio-Politics
after the October Revolution
BREAK
Deviating from the Ideal
14.00–14.45
Tamara Hundorova, Trauma, Body and Motherphobia in Post-Totalitarian
Ukrainian Literature. The Postcolonial Aspect
14.45–15.30
Ingrid Ruudi, Spaces for Deviant Bodies in Late and Post-Soviet Estonia
BREAK
From Socialist Beauty to Revolution
16.00–16.45
Stefanie Eisenhuth, Negotiating Socialist Beauty. Body Politics, Gender,
and National Identity in East Germany, 1950s-1980s
16.45–17.30
Agata Jakubowska, Women Artist Facing the Socialist Sexual Revolution
Saturday, 30.9
Body Politics in (Public) Space
9.30–10.15
Seraina Renz, Performing Individual and Collective Ethics of Resistance.
The Body of the Yugoslav Monument
10.15–11.00
Máté Csanda, The Družba and Its Afterlife – Bratislava's Freedom Square
/ Námestie Slobody (formerly Gottwald Square) as Stage and Litmus Paper
of (Post)Socialist Body Politics
BREAK
11.30–12.15 Yaraslava Ananka, From Vandalism to Voodoo, from Bust to
Body. Iconoclasm and Maleficium in Contemporary Ukrainian War Culture
12.30–13.00
Closing Remarks
CONTACTS:
Oliver Aas: oliver....@khi.fi.it
Aleksandra Dimitrova: aleksandra.dimitr...@khi.fi.it
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Rethinking the (Post-)Socialist Body (online/Florence, 28-30 Sep
23). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 19, 2023. <https://arthist.net/archive/40130>.
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