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
Tobey Yunjing Pan is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Her project, funded by the SGSAH AHRC DTP, examines women’s experimental art in East-Central Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. The PhD draws on archival research, interviews with artists and researchers, and Marxist feminist debates on social reproduction theory to explore whether—and how—the work of women artists, produced in contexts with a tentative relationship to market demands, can contribute to the histories of transnational feminist thought. Between 2023 and 2024, she was part of 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.
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