[spectre] CONF: SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage (London, 27 Feb 09)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From:    Maja & Reuben Fowkes <fowkes at translocal.org>
Date:    6 February 2009
Subject: CONF: SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage (London, 27 Feb
09)



SOCIALEAST SEMINAR ON ART AND ESPIONAGE

The Courtauld Institute of Art London
1-7pm Friday
27 February 2009

This symposium considers the involvement of art during the Cold War with
espionage, both on the level of international exchange and in specific
national contexts. It deals with attempts within the Eastern Bloc to
monitor artists through surveillance and networks of informers, the role
of art espionage as an instrument of Sovietisation, and the methods used
to control the involvement of artists in the international art world.
There will also be discussion of the parallel role of Western
organisations in activities from cultural espionage to the use of art as
a propaganda weapon. The seminar will also consider artistic responses
to the phenomenon of spying and the wider legacy of artistic espionage
for the topography of contemporary art.

The symposium has been organised by SocialEast Forum in collaboration
with The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum. The SocialEast Forum
is conceived as a platform for innovative, transnational research on the
art and visual culture of Eastern Europe. Based on active collaboration
with institutes of art history across Europe and the involvement of
prominent academics, curators and artists, SocialEast is an
internationally-recognised generator of groundbreaking research into the
art history of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

The SocialEast Forum was initiated by Dr. Reuben Fowkes at Manchester
Metropolitan University in 2006 and documentation of the six preceding
seminars can be found on http://www.socialeast.org


For programme and booking details see:
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/conferences/current.shtml



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