Dr. Amy Bryzgel has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (AH/M005585/1) for her project, Performance Art in Eastern Europe. The fellowship supports the completion and dissemination of her research on performance art in the region, which she began in 2013 with the support of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and grants from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. In addition to completing and publishing her book, Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960, the first comprehensive academic study of the subject, she will also organize a conference on performance art in Eastern Europe at the University of Aberdeen, which will take place in conjunction with a performance art festival that is being organized by Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen in October 2015. A number of guest speakers and performers will be invited to Aberdeen in the context of the project, and various performative events will take place throughout the year to showcase the role of performance art in the community.
For more information on Dr. Bryzgel’s project, please see the official University of Aberdeen media release: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/7651/