Field Reports w. Dan Perjovschi (Bucharest, Romania)

"Field Reports," informal conversations on contemporary aesthetics and democracy during the pandemic. Today we will be speaking with Dan Perjovschi (Bucharest, Romania).

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Slought is pleased to present "Field Reports," a series of conversations throughout November 2020 with contemporary artists, theorists, and curators whose work engages the politics and aesthetics of Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Intended as a series of casual talks for local students and Slought's expanded network, these intimate, midday sessions will provide an informal platform for thinkers to share and discuss their practices, reflect on how their work has been impacted by the pandemic, what is transpiring in their communities and institutions; and how these factors intersect with democracy and democratic processes as they unfold throughout the broader Central and Eastern European region.

On the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, cultural actors and institutions throughout Central and Eastern Europe face myriad challenges, ranging from increasingly conservative governments and the politics of illiberalism, to a second pandemic wave that threatens to further destabilize the region's socio-economic and political infrastructure. As economic austerity and barriers to mobility are fraying progressive networks of people, cultural production, and institutions, many are attempting to forge new ties and devise new strategies of resilience.

Field Reports is presented as part of an ongoing Slought program, On the Other Side of Elsewhere, which aims to map, engage, and share knowledge across a broad international network of civic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, and who are reinvigorating civil society and the promise of democracy. The project investigates the informal economies, networks of interdependence, and modes of survival developed among nonprofits and small-scale institutions whose missions directly engage artistic, political, and social engagement.
Dan Perjovschi is an artist based in Bucharest, Romania. Perjovschi began his career as a political cartoonist for the Romanian magazine Revista 22 in the early 1990s and has since developed an ongoing project of large-scale wall drawings for both the public and private space. Perjovschi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at notable institutions around the world including the Reykjavik Museum of Art, Ludwigsburg Kunsthalle, Royal Ontario Museum, San Francisco Institute of the Arts, Espai d'Art Contemporani in Castellon, Tate Modern, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.