Ana Janevski

Gülsen Bal

Laura Lima

Jaroslava Bubnová

Boštjan Bugarič

Eyal Danon

Zoran Erić (umetnostni zgodovinar.)

Una Popović

Alenka Gregorič

Bojana Piškur

Tadej Pogačar

Marcel Andino Velez

Adela Železnik

Communication networks

Cosmin Costinas

The choreographic turn in the visual arts from 1958 to 1965 can be identified by the sudden emergence of works created by very different visual artists in very different placesartists such as Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneeman, and Robert Rauschenberg in the United States; Lygia Pape and Hlio Oiticica in Brazil; the Gutai group in Japan; and Yves Klein in france. each explicitly or implicitly used dance or choreographic procedures to reinvent and reimagine the practice and its history. Dedicated to the renewed encounter between dance and performance, Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? is a collection of essays and writings taken from the 2014 conference organized by Para Site, Hong Kong. Thirty contributors, coming from a broad field of discourse, joined together to rethink performance as more than a medium but rather as a series of questions and reflections about how art mediates social relations among people. Contributors include Belkis Ayn, Claire Bishop, Boris Buden, Amy Cheng, Bojana Cvejic, Patrick D. flores, and Simryn Gil, and Yangjiang Group, among many others.

The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

Roxana Marcoci

Ksenia Nouril

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the ripple effects felt over the following years from Bucharest to Prague to Moscow demarcate a significant moment when artists were able to publicly reassess their histories and question the opposition between the former East and the former West. Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe takes the pivotal political changes between 1989 and 1991 as its departure point to reflect on the effects that communism's disintegration across Central and Eastern Europe--including the Soviet Union's fifteen republics--had on the art practices, criticism, and cultural production of the following decades. This book presents a selection of the period's key voices that have introduced recent critical perspectives. Particular attention is given to the research and viewpoints of a new generation of artists, scholars, and curators who have advanced fresh critical perspectives and who are rewriting their own histories. Their examination of artistic practices and systems of cultural production proposes distinct outlooks for acting in the contemporary world while simultaneously rethinking the significance of the socialist legacy on art today. Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe is an indispensable volume on modern and contemporary art and theory from the region. Contributors. Claire Bishop, Boris Buden, Keti Chukhrov, Kim Conaty, Michelle Elligott, Meghan Forbes, Boris Groys, Jon Hendricks, Sanja Iveković, IRWIN (Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik), Ana Janevski, David Joselit, Klara Kemp-Welch, Juliet Kinchin, Zofia Kulik, Katalin Ladik, Roxana Marcoci, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Ksenia Nouril, Dan Perjovschi, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, David Platzker, Paulina Pobocha, Christian Rattemeyer, David Senior, Tamás St.Auby, Hito Steyerl, Dimtry Vilensky, Artur Żmijewski

A Critical Anthology

Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe

Ana Janevski

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