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Programme:

History of Art - MPhil/PhD/MSc by Research

Start date:

Sep-22

Mode of study:

Full time

Research title:

Invisible Labour: Women’s Experimental Art in East-Central Europe, 1970-1989

Biography

Tobey Yunjing Pan is currently a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD project, funded by SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, focuses on artistic methodologies in East-Central Europe in the two decades before 1989. The PhD examines experimental art produced by women artists from the region through the lens of labour. Her first published peer-reviewed article in Third Text (2022), titled ‘KwieKulik through the Lens of Feminism’, is based on her Master’s thesis completed in 2019, for which she conducted research in Zofia Kulik’s archive in Łomianki, Poland. She is also involved in ‘Understanding 1989 in East-Central European Art: War vs. Revolution’, a seminar series led by the Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and supported by the Getty Foundation.

Research

Conference Papers:

Theorising (Art) Labour as a Marxist Feminist Approach to Art History,’ the Twentieth Historical Materialism Annual Conference, SOAS, London, November 2023

Archiving and Desiring the Alienated Self: from Self-Portrait with a Flag (1989) to KwieKulik Archive (1968-2024) of Zofia Kulik,’ The Art–Labour Relationship in Contemporary Art in Central and Eastern Europe, 1991–present, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, May 2024

From Pretty Girls (1987) to Pretty Woman (1990): Images of Women at Work in the Transition from Late Socialism to Capitalist Hegemony,’ The Third East-Central European Art Forum: War vs. Revolution, Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research On East-Central European Art, Poznań, June 2024