ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the range of artistic motivations for re-performing the happenings, body art and actions of the socialist period in today’s radically different political, economic and art-institutional context. Contemporary artistic strategies of appropriation, re-insertion and critique of ephemeral and dematerialised performative practices are considered as an exercise in the historicisation of the achievements of the East European neo-avant-garde within global art history and as a subversive tactic for opening up critical perspectives on the social and ideological transformations of post-communism.
