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October 5, 2006, 7 pm
Book presentation: "Mind the Map! - History is Not Given"
Frankfurt Book Fair, Atelier Frankfurt
Hohenstauffenstr. 13-27, 60327 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Mind the Map! History Is Not Given takes as its point of departure
the project EAST ART MAP (EAM) by the Slovenian fine arts group
IRWIN. EAST ART MAP is a project that tracks back in history (over
the past 50 years) the art works and cultural processes in the
territory known as the former Eastern Europe. The task is to now
interpret the topography laid out and establish new perspectives for
plotting and understanding art history, cultural practices and
theoretical models. The book documents the Symposium as
representative of a NEW THINKING that is presently emerging at
several intersecting points: the intermediality between different art
forms, the fracture zones between the national cultures of Eastern
and Western Europe, the fissures between past and present, and the
interferences between humanities, arts and social movements. With the
project Mind the Map! History Is Not Given we are thus engaged in
constructing a matrix that represents a densely-woven structure of
information on specific and, frequently, less known artistic and
cultural processes, products and realities. The book presents the
theoretical and artistic positions of the young scholars, professors
and artists who participated in the symposium that has been held in
October 2005 in Leipzig, and it also includes an additional selection
of texts and art works.
Edited by Marina Grinić, Günther Heeg und Veronika Darian
Distributed by revolver, Frankfurt am Main, 2006
ISBN: 3-86588-165-3
A project by the Institute of Theatre Studies of the University of
Leipzig, initiated by East Art Map (IRWIN), Slovenia, and relations
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