Beyond "East" and "West" through The Eternal Network: Networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe

Roddy Hunter

doi:10.4324/9781315193106-2

Beyond "East" and "West" through The Eternal Network: Networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe

Roddy Hunter

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Abstract

This chapter considers how networked communities of post avant-garde artists in the Cold War period reconceptualised frontiers of mind and territory named “East” and “West”, particularly in Europe. Positioning the launch of Sputnik 1 as a paradigm shift in planetary consciousness and telecommunications, Roddy Hunter takes Robert Filliou’s 1968 conception of The Eternal Network as an emblematic post avant-garde response of working in distributed collaboration across the former East/West divide. The analyses of chosen examples will consider whether artists’ attempts to work through horizontal, distributive networks arguably constituted a “second public sphere” anticipating peer-to-peer networks of now ubiquitous globalisation.

In memory of Norbert Klassen (1941–2011)

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere
Subtitle of host publication	Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe
Editors	Katalin Cseh-Varga, Adam Czirak
Place of Publication	Abingdon and New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	1
Pages	19-31
Number of pages	13
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315193106
ISBN (Print)	9781138723276, 9780367735265
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315193106-2
Publication status	Published - 8 Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere - Literaturwerkstatt , Berlin, Germany Duration: 9 May 2014 → 11 May 2014 http://www.2ndpublic.org/news/2014/04/conference-performing-art-in-the-second-public-sphere

Publication series

Name	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Publisher	Routledge

Conference

Conference	Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	9/05/14 → 11/05/14
Internet address	http://www.2ndpublic.org/news/2014/04/conference-performing-art-in-the-second-public-sphere

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Hunter, R. (2018). Beyond "East" and "West" through The Eternal Network: Networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe. In K. Cseh-Varga, & A. Czirak (Eds.), Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe (1st ed., pp. 19-31). (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315193106-2

Hunter, Roddy. / Beyond "East" and "West" through The Eternal Network : Networked artists’ communities as counter-publics of Cold War Europe. Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe. editor / Katalin Cseh-Varga ; Adam Czirak. 1st. ed. Abingdon and New York : Routledge, 2018. pp. 19-31 (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies).

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