Artists & agents : performance art and secret services = Performancekunst und Geheimdienste / Herausgeber*innen, Inke Arns, Kata Krasznahorkai, Sylvia Sasse ; Texte, Inke Arns, Kata Krasznahorkai, Sylvia Sasse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arns, Inke, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Krasznahorkai, Kata, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Sasse, Sylvia, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Hartware MedienKunstVerein, host institution.

Series:

HMKV Ausstellungsmagazin ; 2019/2.

HMKV Ausstellungsmagazin, 2629-2629 ; 2019/2

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Performance art--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Intelligence service--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Surveillance in art--Exhibitions.

Intelligence service.

Performance art.

Surveillance in art.

History.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

218 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1. Auflage.

Other Title:

Performance art and secret services

Performancekunst und Geheimdienste

Place of Publication:

Dortmund : Verlag Kettler, [2019]

Language Note:

Parallel texts in English and German.

Summary:

Subversion does not belong to anyone. It can come from artists who outwit the state or from intelligence agencies who infiltrate the art scene on behalf of the state. But what happens when the two sides meet? After the old state security archives in many Eastern European countries were opened, it became possible for this interaction to be studied in detail. Drawing on scientific essays and artistic contributions, the book shows how the secret police monitored happenings, performance art, and action art and looks at the debates they had about the new art form; it also demonstrates not only how the police documented artistic actions in detail using forensic techniques but also how they manipulated them and sought to thwart them with counter-actions. In addition to this, the book also reveals how artists dealt with the possibility that they were being observed by the secret police and how they now work with the material stored in the archives maintained by the intelligence services.0Kata Krasznahorkai is a curator and research assistant on the ERC project "Performance Art in Eastern Europe 1950?1990: History and Theory" at the University of Zurich's Slavisches (Slavonic) Seminar.0Sylvia Sasse, author and curator, is professor of Slavonic Literature at the University of Zurich and heads the ERC project "Performance Art in Eastern Europe 1950?1990: History and Theory".00Exhibition: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany (26.10.2019 - 23.02.2020).

Notes:

ISBN missing in book.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the HMKV (Hartware Medienkunstverein), October 26, 2019 - March 22, 2020.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the HMKV (Hardware Medienkunstverein), October 26, 2019 - march 22, 2020.

ISBN:

9783862068395

3862068390

OCLC:

1242599680

Publisher Number:

9783862068395