Re-Thinking the (Post-)Socialist Body Art, Theory, and Politics

Oliver Aas is a postdoctoral fellow in the research group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual” at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and a research associate at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center. His research examines the relationship between language, visuality, and the natural environment across Anglophone, (Post)-Soviet, and Scandinavian traditions..Hana Gründler is head of the permanent and independent research group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual” at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut. Her research areas include the intersections of philosophy and art (history), extending from the early modern period to the present time. She focuses on art and philosophy as resistant practices under repressive regimes in Eastern Europe since 1945.  .Magdalena Nieslony is professor of modern and contemporary art history at Universität Innsbruck, Austria. Her research focuses on the Russian avant-garde, American art of the 1970s, and Polish contemporary art. She works on the role of art in consumer culture and related issues of art evaluation.