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… undergone a gradual transformation, while the widespread availability of the internet has also radically increased the range of documentation possibilities. Nonetheless, documenting and researching independent art has constituted a complex problem in Central and Eastern Europe for decades.  Retrospectively seeking and organising sources, along with the maintaining and modernising digital platforms, are also often fraught with basic technical, infrastructural, and funding difficulties. What …

From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. This intense period seems to have come to an end in the 2000s …

… are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a region historically shaped by its position at the crossroads of Eastern and Western imperial powers, and where universalist claims have often been difficult to articulate. In this lecture, Joseph Grim Feinberg will present his current research on forms of borderlands internationalism that have emerged in Eastern European history, responding to the region’s imperialisms and nationalisms. With a …

Open call Endre Tót and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) established the TÓTalJOY prize for contemporary artists in 2021. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces and the actions of the TÓTalJOY series are considered among the most important works representing the …

… behind the relocation of Central and Eastern European visual artists to urban centres specifically in the interwar period. These often followed patterns: artists with formal art training included travel as part of their curriculum, financed by various funds or grants; changes in political regimes forced others to leave their home countries for shorter or longer periods; and most enjoyed the help of personal, professional or political networks while abroad. In addition to analysing …