Notes
1. “Network of networks,” “cultural exorcism,” “scripted avantgarde,” “manufactured dissent” and “weaponized aesthetics” are some of these terms.
2. “Soros Realism” is a term increasingly used to refer to these structural parallels, with Octavian Esanu’s book The Postsocialist Contemporary: The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe after 1989 (reviewed by Izabel Galliera on pp. xx of this journal issue) being one significant contribution to the discussion.
3. Quote from Aaron Moulton’s presentation at the workshop “Agents of Cultural Change: Subsidy for the Arts around the Regime Change,” November 24, 2020 (online), GWZO Leipzig.