Archiving performances as a dissident practice: A Review of: Corinna Kühn, Medialisierte Körper. Performances und Aktionen der Neoavantgarden Ostmitteleuropas in den 1970er Jahren, Cologne: Böhlau, 2020. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3-412-51422-8.

Christian Drobe

doi:10.5817/AEC2022-2-11

Archiving performances as a dissident practice

A Review of: Corinna Kühn, Medialisierte Körper. Performances und Aktionen der Neoavantgarden Ostmitteleuropas in den 1970er Jahren, Cologne: Böhlau, 2020. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3-412-51422-8.

Vol.2,No.2(2022)

Christian Drobe

https://doi.org/10.5817/AEC2022-2-11

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.76707

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Abstract

Focusing on one Czech artist, a Hungarian, a Romanian and two artists / groups from Poland, this publication provides a well-composed and multi-layered picture of artistic practices in central Europe during the 1970s. Kühn’s book rests on a complex theoretical framework that draws from figures such as Erving Goffmann, Erika Fischer-Lichte or recent ideas on praxeology.

Keywords:
performance; neo-avantgarde; non-conformist art; socialism; media art

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