Wednesday 9 June, 2021, 16.00 – 17.30 European Central Time.
A discussion in English, to mark the publication of the third volume in the series, Art Critics of the World, jointly published by AICA Press, Paris and Les presses du réel, Dijon.
Introduced by Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves (Brazil), International President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris.
Moderated by Henry Meyric Hughes (UK), Hon. President of AICA, with the participation of the publication’s three editors: Daniel Grŭń (Bratislava), Jean-Marc Poinsot (Series Editor, Rennes), Henry Meyric Hughes (London).
Featuring a dialogue between Andrea Euringer Bátorová (AICA Slovakia), whose review of this publication, in English, appears on ARTMargins (5 February 2021), and the AICA member (Slovakia), Daniel Grŭń.
Andrea Euringer Bátorová is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava. Her research focuses on alternative and unofficial art and its societal contextualisation, between the 1960s and the 1980s, in Eastern Europe and, especially, in former Czechoslavakia. She has published extensively in this field, most recently in her books, The Art of Contestation: Performative Practices in Slovakia in the 1960s and 1970s (2019) and Art as Life and Life as Art: from Ready-Made to Street Art, Comenius University, Bratislava, 2020
Daniel Grŭň is an art historian, curator, writer and AICA member, working as Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, in Bratislava. His conducts research in the fields of artists’ archives, the legacy of neo-avant-gardes, and contemporary arts.
He co-curated the international retrospective, Július Koller: One Man Anti Show in mumok, Vienna (2017). Recently he co-edited the volumes White Space in White Space, 1973−1982. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský (Vienna, 2021), and was editor of Subjective Histories. Self-Historicisation as Artistic Practice in Central-East Europe (Bratislava, 2020). He is in charge of the Július Koller Society, lives and works in Bratislava.
Registration by Tuesday 8 June: aicainternacional.webinar@gmail.com
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Andrea Euringer Bátorová’s review of AICA’s Tomáš Štrauss in ARTMargins (05/02/2021) may be found at: https://artmargins.com/ostkunst-a-different-yet-similar-art-some-notes-on-the-complexity-of-tomas-strausss-thought/ “