Table of contents : Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 9 List of contributors......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction......Page 16 Part I Geopolitics and transnationalism of art production......Page 32 1 Beyond “East” and “West” through The Eternal Network: networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe......Page 34 2 Tactical networking: Yugoslav performing and visual arts between East and West......Page 47 3 Connection with the world: internationalism and new art practice in Yugoslavia......Page 60 4 Questioning the East: artistic practices and social context on the edge......Page 75 Part II Locating the second public sphere......Page 88 5 Basements, attics, streets and courtyards: the reinvention of marginal art spaces in Romania during socialism......Page 90 6 Performing the proletarian public sphere: gender and labour in the art of Tomislav Gotovac......Page 103 7 Outside by being inside: unofficial artistic strategies in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 117 8 From a local to a national to a transnational public sphere: the emergence of solidarity in Poland from a theatrical perspective......Page 130 9 Surveilling the public sphere: the first Hungarian happening in secret agents’ reports......Page 142 10 Performance art in Latvia as intermedial appropriation......Page 153 11 Escape into nature!: the politics of melancholy in Czechoslovakian performance art......Page 166 Part III Facets of gender in the second public sphere......Page 180 12 Gender, feminism, and the second public sphere in East European performance art......Page 182 13 Decision as art: performance in the Balkans......Page 199 14 Communities of practice: performing women in the second public sphere......Page 217 15 Artistic collaborations of performing women in the GDR......Page 234 Part IV Post-socialist performance......Page 252 16 Socialist performance replaced: re-enactment as a critical strategy in contemporary East European art......Page 254 List of Performances Index......Page 268 Names Index......Page 272 Terms Index......Page 275