Artists & agents : performance art and secret services /

Artists & agents : performance art and secret services /

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Imprint:	Leipzig : Spector Books, [2019]. ©2023
Description:	687 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm
Language:	German English
Series:	HMKV Ausstellungsmagazin, 2629-2629 ; 2019/2
Subject:	Performance art -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Intelligence service -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Surveillance in art -- Exhibitions. Intelligence service. Performance art. Surveillance in art. Eastern Europe. Exhibition catalogs. History. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12799677

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Varying Form of Title:	Artists and agents Performance art and secret services
Other authors / contributors:	Arns, Inke, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Krasznahorkai, Kata, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Sasse, Sylvia, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, host institution.
ISBN:	9783959053334 3959053339
Notes:	"This publication was first released in German in the context of the exhibition 'Artists & Agents - Performance Art and Secret Services,' October 25, 2019 - March 22, 2020 at HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund. Curated by Inke Arnes (HMKV), Kata Krasznahorkai (University of Zurich), and Sylvia Sasse (University of Zurich)." -- colophon. "The German edition of this publication entitled 'Artists and Agents - Performacekunst und Geheimdienste' has been published by Spector Books in 2019 with the ISBN 9783959053136." -- colophon Includes bibliographical references. Texts in English and German.
Summary:	"Subversion belongs to no one. It can come from artists who outwit the state, or from secret services who infiltrate the art scene on behalf of the state. But what happens when both sides meet? Since the gradual opening of the secret service archives in Eastern Europe and the fiches in Switzerland, as well as increasing access to individual files in the USA, we know how art and artists have become the target of observation and disinformation. In Eastern Europe, the secret police were particularly afraid of happenings, perfomance art, and action art, and therefore documented them particularly intensively while also trying to manipulate them with counteractions. In Artists & Agents, we show the 'disruptive' creativity of secret police work, the interaction between artistic and secret service actions, as well as the relevance of research in secret service archives for art and cultural history. However, we will also show how artists work with the potential observation of the informers, and how they deal critically with secret service documents and missions today." -- table of contents

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Summary:	How Soviet Bloc secret police surveilled performance art and happenings--and how artists responded Subversion need not belong to a particular culture: it can come from artists who outwit the state or from intelligence agencies that infiltrate the art scene on behalf of the state. But what happens when the two sides meet? After Eastern Europe's state security archives were opened, it became possible for this interaction to be studied in detail. Artists & Agents shows how the Stasi, the KGB and other state secret police monitored happenings, performance art and action art, and looks at the debates they had about the new art form; how the police documented artistic actions, how they manipulated them and sought to thwart them; how artists dealt with the possibility that they were being observed by the secret police; and how they now work with the material stored in state archives. Artists & Agents includes work by Sanja Ivekovic, Orange Alternative, Peng Collective, Daniel Knorr, Cornelia Schleime, Ion Grigorescu and others.
Item Description:	"This publication was first released in German in the context of the exhibition 'Artists & Agents - Performance Art and Secret Services,' October 25, 2019 - March 22, 2020 at HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund. Curated by Inke Arnes (HMKV), Kata Krasznahorkai (University of Zurich), and Sylvia Sasse (University of Zurich)." -- colophon. "The German edition of this publication entitled 'Artists and Agents - Performacekunst und Geheimdienste' has been published by Spector Books in 2019 with the ISBN 9783959053136." -- colophon
Physical Description:	687 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9783959053334 3959053339
ISSN:	2629-2629 ;