Curatorial note
For Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies the art historian and curator Susanne Altmann was invited to develop a new research project, which she calls When Technology Was Female: A Cultural Investigation of Former Socialist Europe, 1917–1989 and After. From the visual detail to production methods, Altmann explores how ‘industrialisation’ meant widely varied things across contemporaneous state socialist contexts and, by extension, across women’s artistic practices that operated therein.
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For Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies the art historian and curator Susanne Altmann was invited to develop a new research project, which she calls When Technology Was Female: A Cultural Investigation of Former Socialist Europe, 1917–1989 and After. From the visual detail to production methods, Altmann explores how ‘industrialisation’ meant widely varied things across contemporaneous state socialist contexts and, by extension, across women’s artistic practices that operated therein.
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