Congratulations to Lydia Brawner, who has been awarded the Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship, and to Aniko Szucs, who has been awarded the GSAS Summer Predoctoral Fellowship.
Lydia will visit archives in California and D.C. to research the religious performance practice of a constellation of feminist artists who worked in the Seventies and Eighties. These artists worked within the twin epicenters of New York City and Los Angeles and utilized venues like Martha Wilson’s Franklin Furnace and Los Angeles’s The Women’s Building.
Aniko’s dissertation traces the trajectory of secret reports written by former secret informants for the Hungarian Ministry of State Security in three contemporary artworks: a novel, a screenplay, and a theatre performance. Following the trail of the files, which evolved from unprocessed documents in the Historic Archive to their analysis and publication by researchers, and to fragments of an artistic narrative, Aniko will demonstrate how the artistic use of the historically illegitimate and often coerced reports contests the authoritarian voice of archive and shape a multifaceted memory of Communist Hungary.
