Federation of Artistic Actions and Discourse

Saturday, 23 November at 6:30 p.m.
discussion
+MSUM – Seminar

A presentation of books by Jasmina Založnik Claiming of Space: New Performative Art Practices in Yugoslavia (published in Slovenian, Maska, 2024) and Alexandra Baybutt Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space: (In)dependent Scenes (published in English, Routledge, 2023).

Jasmina Založnik analyses »performative art practices« in the period between 1965 and 1987 in Yugoslavia, focusing on Ljubljana, Novi Sad and Belgrade. »Performative art practices« are those practices that dealt with and emerged from the body – they reconstructed the understanding of the body and explored its »(re)presentations, uses and thoughts.« Založnik’s book studies the artists from former Yugoslavia, male and female, who had been active from 1965 onwards and had used their art practice to move away from the conventional understanding of artwork. These artists no longer felt the nostalgia for post-WW2 revolutionary achievements. Rather, they had been encouraged by the Yugoslavian youth world view, so they wanted to speak up about their problems and manifest the processes of Yugoslav self-management in their organisations.

Alexandra Baybutt’s book focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional network Nomad Dance Academy, and highlights collective approaches to sustain a theorisation of festivals using the concepts of dissensus and imperceptible politics. Through anthropological methods, she studies three specific festivals, namely PLESkavica (Slovenia), Kondenz (Serbia) and LocoMotion (North Macedonia). She provides an analysis of social, political and historic orientations influencing the curatorial practices.

* This discussion is in English.
Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenia in collaboration with MSUM+MG
Free entry

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