Edit András, Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute for Art History of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Title: One-way traffic, two-way traffic or a dead end? Dynamism of Contemporary Art Discourse in the East-West Relation

The author intends to shed light upon the shifts, gaps and discrepancies between mainstream art history writing and its Central European local, national variants focusing mostly on the period after the political changes. It would explore burning issues of what could be absorbed into the main debate, what remains invisible from outside, and how the border patrolling mechanism operates. Case-studies would be given of contemporary Hungarian artists like Little Warsaw, Andreas Fogarasi, Kriszta Nagy, Emese Benzcúr etc.

DISCUSSION 17.15 – 17.45/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

PAUSE: DRINKS, SANDWICHES

AT 18.15 LECTURE by Vojtech Lahoda

Vojtech Lahoda, Deputy Director of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. University Professor at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Title: Regional Cubism? How to write on Cubism in East Central Europe

The author's aim is to concentrate on the issue of Cubism outside Paris, especially in the region usually called East Central Europe. The discussion will deal with the question whether it is still valid to write about a homogeneous western born "Cubism", or whether we should think about different local and regional "Cubisms" within the territory of Central and Eastern Europe. The author proposes the term Regional Cubism for Cubist hybridization east of Paris and stresses international aspects of Cubist regionalism.

DISCUSSION 20.00 -20.30/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

TUESDAY, 25 November 2008

2. SESSION 9.30 until 14.00

AT 9.30 LECTURE by Ljiljana Blagojevic

Mart Kalm, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Art and Culture Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn, Estonia

Title: What is Estonian Architecture?

This presentation will discuss the establishment and formation of the Estonian architecture culture during the 20th century. From Finnish architects serving Estonian society before the first Estonian architects emerged to the Baltic-German and Estonian architects in inter-war Estonia-the course will explore Estonian interpretations of traditionalism and modernism. From there, the architecture of Soviet Estonia, with eyes in West but organization and rules from Moscow, is followed by the post-communist Estonian architecture – and is now dissolved in globalization?

DISCUSSION 13.30-14.00/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

LUNCH BREAK 14.00 UNTIL 15.30

3. SESSION 15.30 -18.00

AT 15.30 LECTURE by Misko Suvakovic

Misko Suvakovic, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Title: Politics and Art after the fall of the Berlin Wall

The author will point to the crucial changes that happened in society, philosophy and art after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more precisely, after the end of the cold war division of the world. The era of postmodern social, cultural and artistic plurality was turned into a period of globalization and of restructuring of the social, political, cultural and artistic local-global relations. These processes are marked in art by a fundamental change in the media of artistic representation and expression, converting new media practices into the mainstream art of this epoch.

DISCUSSION 17.00 to 17.30/ facilitate by Grzinic and the tutors

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Thursday, 8, January 2009

AT 15.30 INTRODUCTION in II second final part by Marina Grzinic

AT 15.45 LECTURE by Jan Bakos

Jan Bakos, Member of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Faculty of Letters, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Title: Humanists versus Relativists. Visions and Revisions of the Vienna School Methodological Doctrine

The Vienna School of Art History based art historical research on the belief in method and its scientific nature. The orthodox epistemological model of the Vienna School as formulated by Alois Riegl regarded art history as an exact and non-partial objective science. Riegl’s followers developed and transformed or critically revised his model. The present paper deals with the process of transformations and revisions of the Vienna School orthodox model.

DISCUSSION 17 to 17.30 facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

PAUSE 17.30 – 18.00: DRINKS, SANDWICHES

AT 18.00 LECTURE by Piotr Piotrowski

Professor and Chair of Art History Piotr Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Title: Towards a Horizontal Art History

The author proposes a theory of a horizontal art history as both a critique of the vertical one, understood as hierarchical and Western oriented scholarly practice, as well as the proposed methodological approach to rewrite a history of modern art along with the pluralistic and non-hierarchical model. The model suggested here is based on an equality of different art historical narratives. Its crucial point is to negotiate different discourses, not in order to create one alternative super-structure, but rather to unveil a dynamic process of exchanging values between them.

DISCUSSION 19.30-20.00/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

AT 20.00 end notes

WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT AKBILD STUDENTS FROM THE CLASS and ACADEMY IN GENERAL CAN ATTEND THIS SEMINAR AS A FACULTATIVE COURSE, WHERE YOU CAN GET ADDITIONAL GRADE/MARK, besides your mark for the conceptual art class.

PREPARATION INTO THE SEMINAR/COURSE Writing Central European Art History

28.10.2008 TUESDAY, Akbild, SEMPER depot/M1

At 16.00 until 19.00/20.00 Grzinic, Jurica and Marjanovic NON PUBLIC STUDENT INTRO INTO THE SEMINAR: Writing Central European Art History, part 1 PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES are 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

On 28.10 2008 it will be a non public/i.e for students presentations of positions and texts by Edit András, Vojtech Lahoda, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mart Kalm and Misko Suvakovic, with a resume of their basic points of departure, reading passages from their other texts published in English, commentaries.

29.10.2008 WEDNESDAY, M1

At 12.00 until 17.00 Grzinic, Jurica and Marjanovic NON PUBLIC STUDENT INTRO INTO THE SEMINAR: Writing Central European Art History, part 2 PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES are 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

On 29.10 2008 it will be a non public/i.e for students presentations of positions and texts by Edit András, Vojtech Lahoda, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mart Kalm and Misko Suvakovic, with a resume of their basic points of departure, reading passages from their other texts published in English, commentaries.

9.12.2008 TUESDAY, M1

At 16.00 until 19.00 Grzinic, Jurica and Marjanovic

NON PUBLIC STUDENT INTRO INTO THE SEMINAR: Writing Central European Art History, part 3 PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES are 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

On 9.12.2008 it will be a non public/i.e for students presentations of positions and texts by Jan Bakos and Piotr Piotrowski with a resume of their basic points of departure, reading passages from their other texts published in English, commentaries.

23.01.2009 in the RUNDGANG: EXAM as a public discussion with the students enrolled in the course

Preparation of this presentation will be facilitated by Ivan Jurica and Ivana Marjanovic in the time from 11 to 17.01.2009.

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