Ghosts from Eastern Europe
bys Boris Buden, Keti Chukhrov, Vit Havránek, Marco Scotini and Joanna Warsza
- Author(s)
- Boris Buden, Keti Chukhrov, Vit Havránek, Marco Scotini, Joanna Warsza
- Publication, year
- Milano : Mousse Publishing, 2014
- Scope
- 300 Pages, illustrated, 19 cm.
- ISBN
- 9788867490691
The Empty Pedestal – Ghosts from Eastern Europe” – presented at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Bologna from January 24 to March 16 and organized by Arte Fiera – this book accompanies a project that traces recent developments in the art scene of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Alongside a compendium of images, the book presents a selection of essays by philosophers, art critics and curators that illustrate and comment on certain key concepts examined in the show, including the notions of “East” and “West”, and of “democracy”, “struggle”, “History”, and “site-specificity”. “None of these so-called archeologists”, writes exhibition curator Marco Scotini, “is practicing an art of ruins: they all act upon time but also ‘against’ time, in favor of a time to come. Neither do they aim to predict anything. All they do is allow the unknown knocking on the door to enter”.
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 1: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties
