East Art Map
East Art Map (EAM) is a multimedia, archival, and art historical project by the Slovenian artist group IRWIN in 2001.[1]
The purpose of East Art Map is to create an art history for Eastern Europe after 1945 by identifying modern artists, works, and projects which had a major impact on visual arts in the region.[2]
So far the project's working art critics, historians, curators, and artists have identified over 250 artists to include in the project. Contributors in the artist selection process include representatives from Albania and Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The EAM aims to be a democratized model that does not impose a singular narrative and invites data, and contributions from the public.[3] The project aims to create a referential history in which artists can be connected by their tactics and qualities.
The European Union’s Culture 2000 programme, the Slovenian Minister of Culture supported the first phase of the project.[4]
See also
- IRWIN. 2006. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe. Afterall Books.
References
- ↑ East.Art.Map e-flux.
- ↑ Rhizome. East Art Map. 2004. East Art Map write-up.
- ↑ "Innovative Forms of Archives, Part Two: IRWIN’s East Art Map and Tamás St. Auby’s Portable Intelligence Increase Museum." Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. e-flux. 2010.
- ↑ "East art map" A (Re-) Construction of the History of Contemporary art in Eastern Europe.
External links
- Irwin project page
- Rhizome Write-Up
- Art Margins Write-Up
- MIT Press Main Book page
- "Archive as Strategy" symposium on East Art Map in Collaboration with the History of Art Department, University College London
- Frieze Write-Up