The project "Recuperating the Invisible Past" with wide range of activities - research, exhibitions, festival, symposium, conference, educational program and publications - will focus on reconstruction and articulation of art and culture in former Eastern European countries - their histories and role during Socialist period, and their contemporary legacy. These histories are complex and specific in each scene, though through 50 years existence behind the Iron Curtain mutually interrelated and linked through many parallels. Each partner activities will focus on specific segments and perspectives of these complexities thus together reconstructing multilayered fabric of these diverse realities with common patterns. In this sense the project will seek to transgress the boundaries of the (Western) grand narrative of the European history of art of the second half of the 20th century and strengthen its second or double voice, as well as through analysis of past will grasp the specifity of today's situation in many layers.Through dialogue and active participation, collecting and contextualizing artistic practices, positions, systems within these scenes, the project will increase both practical and theoretical knowledge of these histories and will supplement understanding of them locally and in internationally. One of the streams will examine and interpret cultural and artistic practices from cross-national viewpoints, exploring interrelations between them. Another stream of will display unofficial, experimental, alternative, so called second publicity artistic practices that mostly happened marginally and therefore stayed out of official and recognized art history, although to the great extent these practices where the most progressive art events during that period, and they expose the particular dynamics of the ideological control and alternative art life. The third layer is interdisciplinary aspect, namely, how one discipline or realm effected and informed the others.