Stellenausschreibung: 2 Doctoral Researcher Positions (65%/3 Jahre), Bremen
10. Januar 2023, von OESt
Foto: FSO
The joint research training group of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (FSO) and the Russian Art & Culture Group at Jacobs University has a vacancy for
2 Doctoral Researcher Positions, part-time (65%)
(f/m/d)
in the research project
From the Avant-Garde to Nonconformism: Soviet Artists and their Alternative. Practices between Thaw and Stagnation
funded by the German Research Foundation, for a period of 3 years.
The research group focuses on the activities of alternative artists and artist couples of the Lianozovo and Uktus schools in Moscow, Sverdlovsk, and Leningrad and their roles as independent social actors in the Soviet Union from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. The goal is to analyze their diverse artistic practices and re-situate their artistic legacy in the history of Russian/Soviet art in the second half of the twentieth century.
Research Project 1 – Reference Number: 1/FSO
The historical PhD study will analyze subject constitution processes of artists’ couples such as Ry Nikonova/Sergey Sigey and Oscar Rabin/Valentina Kropivnitskaya in order to gain new insights into the lives and everyday practices of the Soviet people in the decisive transitional phase between thaw and stagnation. It will explore the ideas and discourses fundamental to their self-perception and their relationship to the state and society in the declining thaw, but also the interactions and connections of the mentioned actors within other (alternative) milieus.
Research Project 2 – Reference Number: 2/JUB
The PhD project in art history will examine artistic practices and the related reception and transfer processes during the period between the 1962 Manege and 1974 Bulldozer exhibitions. The position of the artists of the “thaw generation” between the first—the historical—Russian avant-garde and the second Russian avant-garde, which is usually used to describe Moscow conceptualism of the 1980s, will be explored further by not only considering the term “dissident modernists,” coined by Margarita Tupitsyn, but, in particular, Matthew Jesse Jackson’s thesis that before the mid-1980s only a few nonconformist artists considered themselves members of a movement to revive the historical avant-garde.
The project start date in both cases is March 1, 2023.
For further information, please see the job announcement.
Application deadline: 10.01.2023.