Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

KATALIN CSEH-VARGA AND ADAM CZIRAK

Part I
Geopolitics and transnationalism of art production

 1 Beyond “East” and “West” through The Eternal Network: networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe

RODDY HUNTER

 2 Tactical networking: Yugoslav performing and visual arts between East and West

MIŠKO ŠUVAKOVIĆ

 3 Connection with the world: internationalism and new art practice in Yugoslavia

DIETMAR UNTERKOFLER

 4 Questioning the East: artistic practices and social context on the edge

ILEANA PINTILIE

Part II
Locating the second public sphere

 5 Basements, attics, streets and courtyards: the reinvention of marginal art spaces in Romania during socialism

CRISTIAN NAE

 6 Performing the proletarian public sphere: gender and labour in the art of Tomislav Gotovac

ANDREJ MIRČEV

 7 Outside by being inside: unofficial artistic strategies in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s

ANDREA BÁTOROVÁ

 8 From a local to a national to a transnational public sphere: the emergence of solidarity in Poland from a theatrical perspective

BERENIKA SZYMANSKI-DÜLL

 9 Surveilling the public sphere: the first Hungarian happening in secret agents’ reports

KATA KRASZNAHORKAI

10 Performance art in Latvia as intermedial appropriation

LAINE KRISTBERGA

11 Escape into nature!: the politics of melancholy in Czechoslovakian performance art

ADAM CZIRAK

Part III
Facets of gender in the second public sphere

12 Gender, feminism, and the second public sphere in East European performance art

AMY BRYZGEL

13 Decision as art: performance in the Balkans

JASMINA TUMBAS

14 Communities of practice: performing women in the second public sphere

BEÁTA HOCK

15 Artistic collaborations of performing women in the GDR

ANGELIKA RICHTER

Part IV
Post-socialist performance

16 Socialist performance replaced: re-enactment as a critical strategy in contemporary East European art

MAJA FOWKES AND REUBEN FOWKES

List of Performances Index

Names Index

Terms Index

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. List of figures
6. List of contributors
7. Acknowledgements
8. Introduction
9. Part I Geopolitics and transnationalism of art production
   1. 1 Beyond “East” and “West” through The Eternal Network: networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe
   2. 2 Tactical networking: Yugoslav performing and visual arts between East and West
   3. 3 Connection with the world: internationalism and new art practice in Yugoslavia
   4. 4 Questioning the East: artistic practices and social context on the edge
10. Part II Locating the second public sphere
    1. 5 Basements, attics, streets and courtyards: the reinvention of marginal art spaces in Romania during socialism
    2. 6 Performing the proletarian public sphere: gender and labour in the art of Tomislav Gotovac
    3. 7 Outside by being inside: unofficial artistic strategies in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s
    4. 8 From a local to a national to a transnational public sphere: the emergence of solidarity in Poland from a theatrical perspective
    5. 9 Surveilling the public sphere: the first Hungarian happening in secret agents’ reports
    6. 10 Performance art in Latvia as intermedial appropriation
    7. 11 Escape into nature!: the politics of melancholy in Czechoslovakian performance art
11. Part III Facets of gender in the second public sphere
    1. 12 Gender, feminism, and the second public sphere in East European performance art
    2. 13 Decision as art: performance in the Balkans
    3. 14 Communities of practice: performing women in the second public sphere
    4. 15 Artistic collaborations of performing women in the GDR
12. Part IV Post-socialist performance
    1. 16 Socialist performance replaced: re-enactment as a critical strategy in contemporary East European art
13. List of Performances Index
14. Names Index
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1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. List of figures
6. List of contributors
7. Acknowledgements
8. Start of Content
9. List of Performances Index
10. Names Index
11. Terms Index