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This roundtable examines public and street art under authoritarianism, exploring the artistic practice not merely as genres but as contested states of publicness where artistic visibility becomes a site of political negotiation. When visual art confronts systematic censorship and state oppression, “publicness”; transforms from a spatial designation into a precarious achievement requiring continuous struggle.
Analyzing cases from the Soviet Union and contemporary authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe (Belarus, Russia, Hungary) and beyond, the discussion foregrounds how publicness operates through new forms of presence alongside continuing absence as censored works, suppressed voices as constitutive elements.
Roundtable participants:
Dr. Margarita Kuleva, NYU RSS
Dr. Dzmitry Suslau, UCL, Climate Art
Dr. Agnes Szanyi, independent scholar
