Ostfuturistisches Erinnern: Die Transformationszeit in Postsozialistischer Videokunst - Paperback

by Ulrike Gerhardt (Author)

This study centres around video art works from the 2010s dealing with the transformation period of the 1990s. It focuses on the so-called "Transformation Generation", in particular on female-identifying artists and collectives born between 1975 and 1985. Ulrike Gerhardt also explores how they and their respective practices relate to the accelerated change and breakpoints following 1989/91, as well as their after-effects in the present. The emphasis is on the blurring of traces, on decentration and amalgamation, on speculation and alienation, whereby the transformation presents as a highly complex, challenging cultural process.

Author Biography

Ulrike Gerhardt, Visual Studies scholar, researches and publishes on transformation history, intergenerational memory processes, unsettling materialities, and post-digital image practices after 1989/91. After working at District*School Without Centre, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, and the University of Potsdam, she is currently a research associate in the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Together with Suza Husse, she is the founder and co-director of the nomadic, queer-feminist video art platform D'EST; in 2023, she realised the Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires incl. collaborations with krëlex zentre, Fehras Publishing Practices and Nhà Sàn Collective.