Andreas Broeckmann on Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:16:14 +0100 |
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Syndicate: Moscow Art Magazine: East-East, East-West |
Viktor Misiano writes: ________ "Moscow Art Magazine" "The East is Looking at the East. The East is looking at the West" Special Issue Moscow Art Magazine" is the unique Russian periodical, dedicated to problems of the contemporary art theory and art practice. The first issue appeared in 1993. Till now there had already been published 20 issues. The magazine comes out once in two months (6 issues per year). Nowadays the editorial board of the "Moscow Art Magazine" has started to prepare a special issue, dedicated to the problems of art and culture of Eastern European countries. The authors of this issue, artists, art critics, philosophers, will have to participate in the discussion of the following problems: - What kind of conclusions can be made concerning the post-communist experience of our countries. Have our hopes for democratic development of these countries and for free development of culture in a market situation come up to our expectations? What are the losses and gains? - How can we define the experience of the socialist period? How can it be described now, when all sources of exposure have already been exhausted? - What is the most adequate position of an artist and an intellectual in post-communist countries? Is it possible to have a critical, independent point of view, free both from nostalgia of the past and passive acceptance of all realities of the transition period? - How is the Western world seen nowadays? As the West is not a myth anymore, but a reality? Is it possible to speak about united Europe? - Are European models and Western perception of the Eastern art and cultural world adequate? - Do Eastern European artists and intellectuals have an autonomous articulation of the West? - Is there anything in common between art and intellectual cultures of our countries? Does Eastern European identity exist? Or it is an ideological fiction, inculcated before by the Soviet Union and now by the West? - Does the actual experience of our countries have anything universal and valuable? Or we can speak only of something local and outlying? - And at last, modern situation can suggest a lot of other questions, which coincide with cultural problems of our countries. Moscow Art Magazine" is waiting for any interesting and fresh ideas, suggestions and materials, texts, projects and idealogies. The editorial board is open to have various kinds of cooperation, which can proceed in any fruitful way. This issue of the "Moscow Art Magazine" will be published in two languages, English and Russian. Your material can be sent till the 1st of January 1998. ____________________________________________________________________ "Moscow Art Magazine" - Bolshoj Palashevsky per. 9/1 - 103104 Moscow Russia - Tel./fax: 7-095-299.54.81. - E-mail: martmag@glasnet.ru