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This free 10-week co-led seminar focuses on the social history of contemporary art in the Eastern Bloc and post-socialist Eastern Europe as a history of resistance, with particular emphasis on the contributions of feminist and queer artists. Emerging in the late Stalin era, early contemporary art existed underground and is known for its tactics of resisting the official Soviet regime (often referred to as 'unofficial art', Sjeklocha and Mead 1967; Stuart 1977; Groys 2010).
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The New University in Exile Consortium’s Co-Led Online Seminars are taught by two endangered scholars – one who is hosted by a Consortium member institution, and the other a colleague of their choice. The seminars are designed to reconnect endangered scholars with the academic community they have lost while in exile and reengage students from around the world with professors they have lost. They are free and open to anyone anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Certificates of Satisfactory Completion:
Participants who attend 8 out of 10 complete seminar sessions are elligible to receive a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion signed by the Executive Dean of The New School for Social Research.
Presented by the New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
By joining this online event, you will be prompted to accept Zoom Terms of Service. If the session is recorded, you acknowledge that by participating, your name, phone number, and profile picture might be visible to the public. You can customize your personal information when creating your Zoom account. The New School may use any recorded material from the event.
Dr. Margarita Kuleva is a sociologist of culture, artist, and curator, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU. Her research explores labor inequalities in the art world, with a focus on invisible cultural work. She is also a Senior Curator at TAEX and has collaborated with institutions such as Manifesta Biennale, Garage MoCA, and the Goethe Institute. She holds a PhD in sociology from the Higher School of Economics in collaboration with Bielefeld University. Her dissertation, based on over 70 interviews, compares post-Soviet with British art labor experiences and examines the careers of young cultural workers in post-Soviet cities. Kuleva’s work has been published in Cultural Studies and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Dr. Agnes Szanyi earned her doctorate in sociology at The New School for Social Research in New York in 2024. Her dissertation investigates the intersection of art and activism and the dilemmas of artists striving to change the largely privately funded New York art world and the larger society. Between 2007 and 2011, she was the project assistant of the Budapest-based tranzit.hu Contemporary Art Initiative. While a doctoral student, she was a research fellow of the Curatorial Design Research Lab at Parsons School of Design. Since 2014, she has been a member of the art collective BFAMFAPhD. In 2010, she co-edited Art Always Has Its Consequences: Artists' Texts from Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia 1947-2009 (Sternberg Press). In 2022, she edited a thematic issue of Mezosfera on art activism. Currently, she works on a book based on her dissertation research.
The New University in Exile Consortium is committed to an open, inclusive, and collaborative environment. As facilitators of a global online learning community, the Consortium does not tolerate harassment in any form. We are colleagues and we treat each other with respect. Registrants and participants in our co-led online seminars are expected to adhere to the Online Code of Conduct.
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