Multiple realities experimental art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s Pyś, Pavel S. curator. Hernández Luege, William curator. Walker Art Center organizer, host institution. Phoenix Art Museum host institution. text bibliography exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs History Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition. mnu 2023 First edition. monographic eng print 484 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s offers a survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Charting a generation of artists invested in experimentation, the Walker-organized exhibition features artworks rarely exhibited in the United States. Despite their geographical proximity, artists working during this time encountered different conditions for daily life and art-making, confronting varying degrees of control and pressure exerted by state authorities. Embracing conceptual or formal innovation and a spirit of adventurousness, Multiple Realities sheds light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony. Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s brings together works by more than 100 artists from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. While it presents select canonical figures from the region, the exhibition foregrounds lesser-known practitioners, particularly women artists, artist collectives, and those exploring embodiment through an LGBTQ+ lens. Multiple Realities: Navigating Experimental Art in Central Eastern Europe, 1960s-1980s / by Pavel S. Pyś -- Section 1. Public and Private Spaces of Control / Lászlo Fehér [and fifteen others] -- Persons and Objects Are to Be Removed from the Balcony: Artists Performing in Public and Private Spaces of Control during the Cold War / by Kathleen Reinhardt -- Section 2. Dimensions of the Self / Jana Želibská [and thirty-six others] -- Eternal Shapes: Weaving the Erotic into Cybernetics in 1970s Poland / by Natalia Sielewicz -- Section 3. Being Together: Alternative Forms of the Social / Karol Radziszewski [and twenty-seven others] -- Nothing but a Joke: Humor and Revolutionary Mourning in Eastern European Art / by Ivana Bago -- Memory Is a Powerful Thing: A Roundtable Discussion on the Performative Nature of Queer Archives / with Anna Daučíková, Libuše Jarcovjákova, Alexandra Pirici, and Karol Radziszewski, moderated by Michał Grzegorzek -- Section 4. Looking to Other Futures: Science, Technology, Utopia / Stano Filko [and twenty-two others] -- Being Together: Alternative Forms of the Social / by Daniel Muzyczuk -- Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia / by Dušan Barok. with contributions by Ivana Bago, Dušan Barok, Anna Daučíková, Michał Grzegorzek, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Daniel Muzyczuk, Alexandra Pirici, Pavel S. Pyś, Karol Radziszewski, Kathleen Reinhardt, Natalia Sielewicz ; edited by Pavel S. Pyś. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, the exhibition brings together works by nearly 100 artists from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, shedding light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony-- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references and index. ec----- ee----- Arts Europe, Central Experimental methods Exhibitions Arts Europe, Eastern Experimental methods Exhibitions Arts and society Europe, Central History 20th century Exhibitions Arts and society Europe, Eastern History 20th century Exhibitions Arts Europe centrale Méthodes expérimentales Expositions Arts Europe de l'Est Méthodes expérimentales Expositions Arts et société Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle Expositions Arts et société Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle Expositions Arts and society Arts Experimental methods Central Europe Eastern Europe 1900-1999 fast NX542 .M88 2023 709.47 9781935963288 1935963287 2023013774 pda,print DLC 230323 20250318222841.6 in00005465645 eng