 Yael Bartana: Mary Koszmary, 2007. 10' 50" Courtesy of the Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam and Foksal Gallery Foundation Warsaw
| TRANSITLAND > BOOK LAUNCHBook Launch: Transitland – Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009The Ludwig Museum—Museum of Contemporary Art / ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange cordially invites you to the presentation of the reader Transitland – Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009
Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 6 p.m. Location: Ludwig Museum, Auditorium
Edit András, editor and author of the publication, senior research fellow of Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, followed by the brief lectures of two authors: Zoran Erić, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Miklós Peternák, founding head of the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, director of C3 Foundation Moderators of the event: Rita Kálmán and Tijana Stepanovic, curators of ACAX
The lectures will be held in English and Hungarian. Translation provided. All are welcome!
Transitland – Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, a reader with essays, examines the video art of the last twenty years in post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe. The authors of the book are well-established professionals in the region – curators, critics and artists. They provide selective analyses of different aspects, and an angle on the field observed, demonstrating its fecundity and vividness. The publication includes six essays commissioned specially for this volume and twelve republished papers, three of which can be read in English for the first time. The authors are: Edit András, Ruben Arevshatyan, Giorgio Bertellini, Konstantin Bokhorov, Svetlana Boym, Boris Buden, Călin Dan, Margarita Dorovska, Zoran Erić, Antonio Geusa, Boris Groys,Marina Gržinić, Kathy Rae Huffman, Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Mihnea Mircan, Miklós Peternák, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Boryana Rossa, Katarína Rusnáková,Keiko Sei. A separate section, entitled “Transitland Video Archive”, provides the list and short descriptions of the selected 100 videos. The volume has been produced in the framework of the Transitland project, initiated on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Its main outcome is an archive of video works produced in the period 1989-2009, reflecting the transformations in post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe. The Archive includes 100 video works selected by approximately 50 curators from the region. Alongside the numerous discursive and documentary attempts to describe, analyse and contextualise the transformations, a multitude of viewpoints and aspects, presented through the media of video art are meant to provide a unique asset of aesthetic and critical positions to the current discourse on the transition period. The Archive is accessible online and also “capsulated” in so-called video jukeboxes, which makes the entire video-selection available internationally. Furthermore, the project partners organise a series of screening programmes and discursive events in 2009 and 2010 in Bulgaria, Germany and Hungary. The exhibition next January at the Ludwig Museum Budapest, based on the Archive, makes it possible for a broad audience to get an in-depth insight into the Central and Eastern European video art of the last two decades.
For detailed information about the Transitland Archive and the project, please see: www.transitland.eu Transitland is a collaborative project between InterSpace (Sofia), transmediale (Berlin) and Ludwig Museum–Museum of Contemporary Art / ACAX (Budapest).
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