Andrea Bátorová, PhD works at the Comenius University’s Institute of Cultural Studies in Bratislava, Slovakia. She was engaged as an assistant curator at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and published her PhD thesis Action Art in Slovakia in the 1960s: Actions by Alex Mlynárčik in German in 2009.
Amy Bryzgel, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. In 2017, she published a monograph with Manchester University Press entitled Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960. She is Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture, and a Director of the Demarco Archive Trust.
Maja Fowkes, PhD, is an art historian, curator and co-director of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art. She is the author of The Green Bloc: Neo-Avant-Garde Art and Ecology under Socialism (2015), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Central and East European art history and environmental humanities.
Reuben Fowkes, PhD, is an art historian, curator and co-director of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art. His published research ranges across the visual culture of socialism, monumental sculpture and the contemporary art history of Eastern Europe, along with curatorial and theoretical contributions to the field of art and ecology.
Beáta Hock, PhD, is Research Associate of the Department of Entanglements and Globalization at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO, Leipzig). Her areas of research and teaching include art history, feminist cultural theory, and the cultural dimensions of the global Cold War.
Roddy Hunter is Director of the Institute of the Arts at the University of Cumbria, Carlisle, England. He is an artist, curator, educator and writer and has previously held academic positons at Dartington College of Arts, York St John University and Middlesex University. He is currently a doctoral researcher at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.
Kata Krasznahorkai is an art historian and curator working as a researcher at the University of Zürich in the project Performance Art in Eastern Europe (1950–1990), History and Theory. Krasznahorkai defended her PhD in 2015 at the University of Hamburg. She has published and lectured extensively on performance art and state security.
Laine Kristberga is a doctoral researcher at the Art Academy of Latvia writing her dissertation, Documentation of Performance Art in Latvia in the 1970s. She is a lecturer at several universities in Latvia, teaching Performance Art, Critical Thinking, Sociology, Visual Anthropology, and Creative Industries, among other topics.
Andrej Mircev is a visual artist, dramaturge and theatre scholar. He received his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin in 2011. His work is situated at the intersection of critical studies, dramaturgical practice and performance theory. In 2017/2018 he is a research fellow at the Institute Interweaving Performance Cultures in Berlin.
Cristian Nae, PhD is an associate professor at George Enescu National University of the Arts in Iasi, Romania, where he teaches critical theory, curatorial and exhibition studies and contemporary art history. His research and publications focus on exhibition studies and contemporary art history in Central and Eastern Europe after the 1960s, especially on the histories and legacies of conceptual art and the politics of memory. He has received numerous research grants, scholarships and fellowships. As an active writer of art criticism, Nae is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Ileana Pintilie, PhD is an art critic, a curator and a professor at the West University in Timisoara, Romania. Her books include Actionism in Romania During the Communist Era (2002) and the volume Ştefan Bertalan. Überlagerungen/Suprapuneri/Overlappings. Experimental Photography between 1970–1980 (2015). She curated numerous monographic and collective exhibitions in Romania and abroad, including Zone Performance Festival in Timisoara.
Angelika Richter is an art historian and curator based in Berlin. Her research focus is Gender Studies, media art, art and culture of Eastern Europe, especially of the GDR, performance and body art. She submitted her doctoral thesis Perspectives of Artistic Gender Critique: Performance Art and the Second Public Sphere in the late GDR at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in 2017.
Berenika Szymanski-Düll, PhD is Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at LMU Munich, Germany. In her dissertation, she outlined the theatricality of the Polish resistance movements in the 1980s. Her current research interests include international touring theatre in the nineteenth century, theatre and migration, and performance art in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Her most recent book was Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War (2017) edited together with Christopher Balme.
Miško Šuvaković is a professor of applied aesthetics and theory of art and media at the Faculty for Media and Communication in Belgrade. He has published and edited fifty books, among them: Impossible Histories – Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918–1991 (The MIT Press, 2003), Epistemology of Art (TkH, 2008), The Neo-Aesthetic Theory (Hollitzer, 2017).
Jasmina Tumbas, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo. Her teaching and research fields focus on modern and contemporary art history and theory, East European art history, histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art, art and activism, and feminist art.
Dietmar Unterkofler, PhD, was born in Bolzano/Bozen 1979, studied Comparative Literature, German Studies and Cultural Studies in Vienna, Bologna, and Belgrade. He holds a PhD from the Vienna University. His thesis At Second Glance – Neo-Avant-Garde and Conceptual Art in Hungary and Serbia 1965–1980 offers a detailed comparative analysis of experimental art in late socialism in Hungary and Serbia.