Research Catalog

Title

Artists & agents : performance art and secret services / Kata Krasznahorkai, Sylvia Sasse (eds.).

Publication

• Leipzig : Spector Books, [2023]
• ̐ư2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arns, Inke
• Krasznahorkai, Kata
• Sasse, Sylvia
• Hartware MedienKunstVerein, host institution.

Description

687 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits; 22 cm.

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

Series Statement

HMKV Ausstellungsmagazin, 2629-2629 ; 2019/2

Alternative Title

• Artists and agents
• Performance art and secret services

Subject

• 1900-1999
• 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

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Texts in English and German.

Contents

Archives and agents -- Theories -- Documentations -- Interactions and counteractions -- Counter-surveillance -- Measures and "decompositions" -- Re-reading, re-enactment, re-construction -- Achrive appropriation.

Call Number

JQD 24-134

ISBN

• 9783959053334
• 3959053339

OCLC

1380912212

Title

Artists & agents : performance art and secret services / Kata Krasznahorkai, Sylvia Sasse (eds.).

Publisher

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2023]

Copyright Date

̐ư2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

HMKV Ausstellungsmagazin, 2629-2629 ; 2019/2

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Texts in English and German.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

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.

Research Call Number

JQD 24-134