fwd: cfp art and politics / Lithuania

[claudia westermann]

Art and Politics: Case Studies from Eastern Europe
16-02-06 15:28




Where: Kaunas, Lithuania

When 26-27 October, 2006

Call for papers deadline: 20 April, 2006


Organized by the Art Institute of the Vytautas Magnus University, 
this conference entitled Art and Politics: Case Studies from Eastern 
Europe, to be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 26-27 October 2006, aims 
to bring together different case studies on art and politics in order 
to analyze the complex relationship between artistic and political 
regimes as well as political meanings of art in Soviet and 
Post-Soviet conditions.



The following topics will be discussed:

- subversions of political art in non-democratic state

- cultural policy and culture as resistance

- in search of panacea: resistance, transgression, appropriation

- critique of representation and creating of new myths

- aesthetical norms and/or national style

- self identities [autobiography, body, individual mythologies] in 
the sidelines of regime

- deological art and artistic ideologies



Participants are requested to submit their papers in the form of case 
studies using a particular artifact, event or phenomenon as the 
grounds for research of a broader problem focused on the varied 
intersections of art and politics. Presentations will be limited to 
20 minutes. A publication of conference proceedings is also planned.

Abstracts of 250-300 words, accompanied with a short CV, should be 
submitted by 20 April 2006. Accepted papers will be notified by 2 May 
2006.



Contact: Art Institute, Vytautas Magnus University, Laisves ave. 
53-405, LT-44309 Kaunas, Lithuania; e-mail: 
Linara_Dovydaityte at fc.vdu.lt and Jurate_Tutlyte at fc.vdu.lt