ARTPOOL 40

Description

The international conference celebrated the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Artpool and its concurrent relocation to the Central European Research Institute of Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

It aimed to map the cultural-political-historical contexts of Artpool's activity by bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in transnational research on artist archives, progressive curatorial and museological practices, and the historiography of Cold War art scenes and networks.

The conference took Artpool’s 1979 concept of an “Active Archive” as a starting point to explore its contemporary interpretations and applications, and its similarities with and differences from other artist archives.

The conference involved presentations of new museological, curatorial, academic, or artistic perspectives and methodologies that allow the consideration of archival practice as a creative and active form of researching art and artistic visions of the future.

The conference was organized by Artpool Art Research Center – Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Dr. Judit Bodor (then Glasgow School of Art) and Dr. Beáta Hock (Universität Leipzig), and iwas realized in the framework of the COST Action New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent (NEP4DISSENT) generously supported by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.

Period	20 Feb 2020 → 21 Feb 2020
Event type	Conference
Location	Budapest, HungaryShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International