Syndicate: Moscow Art Magazine: East-East, East-West

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Viktor Misiano writes:
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                          "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.


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