after the workshops part 3

The second day of our meetings was mainly focused on discussions that took part on Saturday afternoon. We have been trying to develop several issues on the nineties seen from perspective of artists and curators that have been born at the second part of '80. The starting point for the conversation was the moment of transformation 1989 and its outcomes that had a strong impact both on visual culture and contemporary art. 

Two sessions of the panel discussion were dominated by the problems such as influence of western pop-culture on Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, forgotten heritage of Eastern Bloc and subjectivity perceived as a way of shaping post-structural art history. As a bottom line we have established a hypothesis if the revolution or transformation that happen in '89 wasn't destructive for the cultural institutions and whether it has any other impact on art. Poland seem to be a unique example where we could observe some kind of continuity in cultural institutions. In rest of the countries breakthrough had rather negative impact. After all we have decide to continue our research on subject that - as we have decide - is still a interesting and vivid even 25 years after the end of communism.