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Central and Eastern European Museum Professionals
Workshop
The Central and Eastern
European Museum Professionals Workshop, which took place in
New York in October and November of 1999, brought participants
from Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,
Latvia, Lithuania, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia,
Slovakia, and Slovenia to MoMA for a series of wide-ranging
discussions of exhibition-related issues. It was the first
workshop at which participants were asked to give presentations
on their own institutions to MoMA staff and invited guests.
The workshop also included tours of private collections in
the city and visits to a selection of other institutions.
The New York portion of the workshop was made possible by
the sponsorship of The International Council and the Trust
for Mutual Understanding. Participants then traveled to Los
Angeles in a program arranged by MoMA and the Getty Trust.
This trip was sponsored by the Open Museum Initiative of the
Open Society Institute—New York, and The Ford Foundation.
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MoMA’s International
Program was responsible for the publication of Primary
Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art
since the 1950s, the first collection of English-language
documents on modern art drawn directly from the artistic archives
of Eastern and Central Europe. Compiled by Laura Hoptman and
Tomáš Pospiszyl and featuring the writings of
Tadeusz Kantor, Komar and Melamed, Slavoj Žižek,
and many others, this important volume serves as an introduction
to the region’s major artistic and critical movements
during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Primary
Documents Table of Contents (.pdf file; requires
Adobe Acrobat)
Purchase
Primary Documents at momastore.org
On March 11,
2003, the International Program and MoMA’s Department
of Education co-organized a public panel discussion, entitled
“East of Art: Transformations in Eastern Europe,”at
MoMA Gramercy in Manhattan. Marking the publication of Primary
Documents and moderated by the book’s editors, the
roundtable discussion included several prominent artists and
critics whose writings are featured in the book, including
Boris Groys, Professor of Philosophy and Media Theory, Academy
for Design, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Rector, Vienna Academy
of Fine Arts; Katarzyna Kozyra, artist, Warsaw; Bojana Pejiç,
art historian and curator, Berlin and Belgrade; Slavoj Žižek,
cultural critic and philosopher, and Senior Researcher, Institute
for Sociology, University of Ljublana, Slovenia; and Roger
L. Conover, Executive Editor of The MIT Press, the book’s
distributor, who served as respondent.
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