Socially Engaged Art after Socialism : Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.

Cover -- Author bio -- Endorsements -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Within and Beyond the Borders of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania -- Subversive Potential in Social Capital -- Politics of Socially Engaged Art in CEE -- Research Methodologies and Significance -- 1 Points of Contention: Socially Engaged Art Practice in Contemporary Theory -- 2 Civil Society, and Social,Cultural and Political Capital -- Civil Society -- Social, Cultural and Political Capital -- 3 Historical Antecedents: Participatory Art under Socialism, 1956-89 -- Socially Engaged Art in Socialist Hungary -- Participatory Art in Socialist Romania -- Unconventional Art in Socialist Bulgaria -- Part I From Second Society to Civil Society -- 4 Civil Society in a Period of Post-Socialist Transition -- 5 Antipolitics: Exhibitions at the Soros Centres for Contemporary Art -- Reclaiming Public Life through Interventionist Public Art -- Curatorial Visions: Framing Community-Oriented Art Projects -- Soros Centres for Contemporary Arts: Constraint and Self-Determination -- 6 Sofia: Participatory Public Art and Emerging Contemporary Art Institutions -- Friendship Networks in Post-1989 Emerging Art Institutions for Contemporary Art -- Part II From Localized Public Sites To EU Transnational Public Spheres -- 7 Place-Making: Framing Art in Public Spaces Curatorially -- Moszkva Tér (Gravitacio) / Moscow Square (Gravitation) -- Visual Seminar -- Spațiul Public București / Public Art Bucharest -- Catching Up to Europe with Culture -- 8 Representing Counterpublics in Bucharest, Budapest and Sofia -- h.arta: Undermining Curatorial Protocols in Self-Organizing Collaborative Projects -- János Sugár: Staging Confrontation in Participatory Public Art -- Luchezar Boyadjiev: Roma Counterpublic Art Monuments in Sofia.

Ivan Moudov: Performing a Museum of Contemporary Art through Collective Participation -- 9 Contesting the Politics of Belonging in the Post-1989 EU Community -- About the Artists: Bejenaru and Big Hope -- 'Mental Maps' in 'Fortress Europe' -- The Power of the Gaze -- Constructing Differential Spaces through Social Capital and Political Capital -- Part III Institutionalized and Institutionalizing -- 10 Institutionalized Community Arts Programmes -- Art for Social Change: Bypassing Systemic Causes -- cARTier: Cultivating Self-Help through Art in Marginalized Communities -- Participation and Collaboration as Apolitical Strategies of Engagement -- 11 Big Hope: Reviving Leftist Activism in Budapest -- Hungarian Cultural Institutions: Stage for Populist Right-Wing Narratives -- Big Hope and Homelessness -- Disobbedienti -- In and Out of Institutions -- 12 Self-Institutionalizing as Political Agency -- From DINAMO to IMPEX: Expanding Institutional Framing -- Department of Art in Public Space: Challenging the Left's Official Condemnation -- 0GMS's Self-Institutionalization -- Self-Institutionalizing as Platforms for Self-Determination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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