Agnes Szanyi

Agnes Szanyi is a PhD candidate in Sociology. Her dissertation is a comparative study of political and social activism among contemporary artists in two art worlds (New York and Budapest). Drawing on interviews and participant observation, she aims to better understand the alternative structures artists create: solidarity economies, artist coops, and alternative spaces.  Her work will analyze the role of these structures relative to the state and the traditional art market. Her study seeks to explain how the different social and political contexts of these post-socialist and neoliberal capitalist societies affect art activism.