Book Launch: What Will Be Already Exists – Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond

4 – 6.30 pm, Friday, 11 February 2022, Online

BIRMAC in association with Artpool, is delighted to celebrate the launch of ‘What Will Be Already Exists’, an edited volume emerging from a conference organised around Artpool’s 40th anniversary, published by Transcript Verlag in 2021.

The book includes texts by Emese Kürti / Zsuzsa László (eds.) with essays by Zdenka Badovinac, Judit Bodor-Roddy Hunter, David Crowley, Lina Džuverović, Daniel Grún, Emese Kürti, Karolina Majewska-Güde, Kristine Stiles, Sven Spieker and Tomasz Zaluski. More information.

Invited respondents, art scholar, critic, and curator Ieva Astahovska (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia) and art historian and curator, Cristian Nae (George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi, Romania), will offer their responses to the publication, which will be followed by a panel discussion with the editors and a number of contributors. Chaired by Dr Sophie Hope (Department of Film Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College).