20/20

“20/20” is a list of some of the most accessed articles, reviews, and interviews ARTMargins Online has published over these 20 years. Apart from giving readers and researchers a sense of what was most in demand, we also aimed at a cross section of the many writers, curators, and artists from a variety of countries and regions we have been fortunate to publish over the years. Among the brightest and most influential of these—Svetlana Boym and Piotr Piotrowski—are sadly no longer with us, and we repost their texts as a tribute to their legacy and lasting impact. These 20 texts also reflect AMO’s interest in looking at contemporary art from Eastern Europe from the vantage point of its various margins – the outer Balkans, the Baltic States, Eurasia but also—as Vladimir Paperny and Svetlana Boym demonstrate in their piece “Leaving Las Vegas”—the (far) West.

• 20/20
• Performing Oneself into History: Two Versions of Trio for Piano (Tallinn, 1969/1990)
• When Canons Roar: Artists Reflect on the Conflict in Ukraine
• Socialist Realist Graphic Art in Albania (Book Review)
• To be Partisan, Unsettled, and Alert: Conversation with Geeta Kapur
• Interview with Geta Brătescu (Adriana Oprea)
• From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: Marina Gržinić in conversation with Maja and Reuben Fowkes
• Provincializing the West: Interview with Piotr Piotrowski
• Troubles with History: Skopje 2014
• Ostalgia at the New Museum (Review Article)
• Interview with Artpool Cofounder Júlia Klaniczay
• Miško Suvaković, “The Neo-Avant-Garde in Yugoslavia 1951-1973” (Podcast)
• Chto delat’? The Theory and Practice of Critical Intervention: Sven Spieker in Conversation with Dmitry Vilensky (St. Petersburg) (Podcast)
• Creating Context: Zdenka Badovinac on Eastern Europe’s Missing Histories (Interview)
• The Public and the Private Body in Contemporary Romanian Art
• East of Art: Transformations in Eastern Europe: “On (Un-) Changing Canons and Extreme Avantgardes”
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Video, Archive, Storage: Moscow Performance Art in the Age of Digital Repetition
• “A Universal System for Depicting Everything”: A Dialogue Between Ilya Kabakov and Boris Groys
• “It’s Yesterday’s Train That’s Late” : Underground Rock and the Changing Face of Art Theory in Hungary
• Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art – Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975

Susan Snodgrass

Susan Snodgrass is a Chicago-based critic and coeditor of ARTMargins Online. Much of her writing is devoted to alternative models of critical practice and artmaking, whether exploring new genres of public art or contemporary art in former Eastern Europe. She is a 2018 recipient of a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her blog, In/Site: Reflections on the Art of Place, which explores art, architecture and urbanism, and a finalist for the 2019 Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Arts Journalist Award. She has written for both print and online publications for over 30 years, most notably for Art in America for which she was a Corresponding Editor, as well as Artforum, Textile: Cloth and Culture and THE SEEN. Her book Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs was published by Half Letter Press in 2019.

Sven Spieker

Sven Spieker is a founding editor of ARTMargins. He specializes in European modernism, with an emphasis on the Eastern European avant-gardes, postwar and contemporary literature and art, especially in Eastern and Central Europe. Spieker's book publications include The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy (2008; Korean translation, 2013); Destruction (ed., 2017); Art as Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge (forthcoming, MIT Press). He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) and lives in Los Angeles and Berlin.