Project Details
Projekt
Nonconformist Visions. Alternative Art and Culture in Central and East Europe: Descripting Papers of nonconformist Artists and their Artist’s Publications in the Archive of the Research Center for East European Studies.
Applicants
Reiner Diedrichs; Professorin Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
Subject Area
Art History
Modern and Contemporary History
Modern and Contemporary History
Term
from 2019 to 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 431354022
Of late, the archive of the Research Center for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen has experienced a remarkable rush on personal papers of Central and Eastern European Artists. This growing demand of researchers, curators and memory institutions can be explained by a recent interest in generally late Socialism and in various forms of expression of dissent and nonconformism. The project answers to this increasing interest in providing necessary papers and data for scholars. The projects aims to index papers, provide bibliographic descriptions and make transnational thematic references visible. In creating important preconditions questions on on the transnational dimension of art as a contact space and the materiality of artistic productions between dissent and consensus can be adressed. Transnational networks of Soviet nonconformist artists and the international Mail-Art scene of the 1970ies and 1980ies are the main focus. Beside papers of such important actors like the art theorist Boris Groys or the artist couple Sergey Sigey and Ry Nikonova, the collection of Klaus Groh’s artist’s publications from the Soviet Union, Poland, GDR, Czechoslovakia and Hungary is being processed within the project. In cooperation with the Centre of the Common Library Association (VZG) metadata will be imported into national and international union. Visibility and Usability are significantly increased by the presentation of metadata in osmikon, arthistoricum.net, the german national online portal for Autographs and Personal Papers Kalliope, as well as in the discipline-specific online portals Russian Art Archives Networks and European Art Net. In the course of processing personal papers and artist’s publications little or not-known Central and Eastern European artists, artist groups and underground publishing houses are listed, which are not yet available in the joint authority file (GND). By importing data into the GND and making thesauri accessable via the datahub DANTE, the project contributes to networking information resources.
DFG Programme
Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
