In Eastern Europe, however, traditions of performance art remain largely unexamined. In her paper, Amy Bryzgel will present case-studies, in which she attempts to situate these artists and their performances within the context of performance art. Using local, regional and global contextualisation, she aims to present a more nuanced understanding of performance art practices, East and West.
Amy Bryzgel is specialised in contemporary art from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Her current book manuscript, Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980, is forthcoming with IB Tauris (2012). New research is in examining controversial art works and acts in the late- and post-communist periods in Eastern Europe and Russia. She is also working on a monograph on the Latvian performance artist and painter, Miervaldis Polis.