Where the West Ends?
dal 17/3/2010 al 18/3/2010
Segnalato da
Press department Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
17/3/2010
Where the West Ends?
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
A two-day seminar with Claire Bishop within the framework of the Former West project
In the frame of the Former West project, a two-day seminar with Claire Bishop focusing on art in the former Soviet Union and its immediate zone of influence after the transition of 1991. The motivations for turning to the East (rather than to the 'Former West') are twofold, and tied to the specifically Polish context, where the Museum of Modern Art in based. The first concerns art critical frames of reference. Despite the West's growing interest in art practices from this region, it is difficult adequately to map and describe these practices using Western artistic vocabularies, which seem insufficient and badly adapted to the post-socialist context. The second concerns points of identification. Since 1989, Eastern European artists have tended to adopt one of two polarised positions towards the West: on the one hand, expressing a strong affiliation or 'natural' adhesion to the West, and on the other hand, a complete detachment from or even denial of Western models. Former West is a contemporary art research, education, publishing, and exhibition project (2008-2013), initiated and organized by Bak, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.