Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere

<p><i>Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere</i> is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions each chapter explores the particular critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances. </p><p></p><p>The artistic networks of Yugoslavia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.</p>