PATTERNS_Researching and Understanding Recent Cultural History

PATTERNS is a transnational programme of the culture programme of ERSTE Foundation. The aim of PATTERNS is to research and understand recent cultural history in Central and South Eastern Europe. PATTERNS initiates, commissions and supports contemporary culture projects and academic activities in a variety of formats and media. The programme focuses on the visual arts and culture of the 1960s until today.

Selected Courses

The call for submissions of proposals for university courses was open from January 7 to March 7, 2010.
We received 61 applications from 19 countries: Armenia (1), Austria (4), Bulgaria (2), Croatia (5), Czech Republic (8), Hungary (11), Kosovo (1), Lithuania/Belarus (1), Macedonia (1), Moldova (5), Montenegro (3), Poland (3), Romania(5), Russia (2), Serbia (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), Ukraine (1), United Kingdom (1).

The Academic Advisory Panel met in Vienna on April 8, 2010 and selected the following 16 outstanding courses that will be supported within the PATTERNS Lectures project:

• Olga Briukhovetska, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, UA
  Soviet Cinema since 1960s: Ideological Contradictions (in the framework of Visual Culture Research Seminar)
• Beata Hock, The Hungarian University of Fine Arts, HU
  Feminist Artmaking: Social Voices and Creative Options
• Ljiljana Kolešnik, University of Split, HR
  Art, history, politics and popular culture in relation to critical art practices in South East Europe of the 1960s and 1970s
• Emil-Cristian Nae, George Enescu Univ. of Arts, Iasi, RO
  Politics of Identity in Eastern-European Art after 1989
• Tatiana Nikiforova Stoitchkova, South-West University, BG
  Everyday Culture – Socialist Past and Present Consumption
• Mária Orišková, Trnava University, SK
  Critical Terms for East European Art History and Visual Culture
• Vjeran Pavlakovic, University of Rijeka, HR
  Comparative History of the Culture of Memory
• Levente Polyak, Budapest University of Technology / Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design, HU
  Fragmented Space: The Transformation of Central European Cities
• Lena Prents, European Humanities University, LT/ BY
  What the Party didn't Teach: Inofficial Internal and International Art Practices in Belarus from the Thaw till Perestroika
• Daria Pyrkina, Moscow State Lomonosov University, RU
  From Prague Spring to Post-Perestroika: Art in Eastern and Central Europe from 1960s till present
• Magda Radu, National University of Arts, Bucharest, RO
  Eastern European Art Under Communism: The Romanian Case
• Speranta Radulescu, National Univ. of Music, Bucharest, RO
  The manea in the Romanian public debates
• Roma Sendyka, Jagiellonian University, PL
  (In)Visible Loss. Holocaust and the Everyday Visual Experience in the Central Europe
• Kornelia Slavova and Krassimira Daskalova, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, BG
  Gendering Popular Culture East and West
• Zuzana Štefková, Academy of Art Architecture and Design, CZ
  Testimonies - Female Voices in Czech and Slovak Art

These courses will be implemented at the respective universities in the academic year 2010/2011.