Ana Vilenica

Ana Vilenica is an urban researcher, art theoretician and housing and feminist organiser. She is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the ERC project 'Inhabiting Radical Housing' at the Polytechnic of Turin's Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) and a member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab. She is currently working on setting up a new agenda for research on transnational organising in and beyond radical housing struggles.

She holds a PhD from the University of Arts in Belgrade and defended her theses in Theory of Art and Media with a title “Theory and practice of activism in art in second half of XX century”. Ana Vilenica spent two years working at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (2012-2014), where she did a research on role of art and culture in urban regeneration in Serbia and implications of regeneration art on neo-colonial modernisation of so called periphery of Europe. She was a post-doctoral Marie Curie Research Fellow at School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University (2016-2018), where she has been working on a project tackling issues around role of art in so-called housing crises based on case studies in London and in Belgrade.

She contributes regularly to journals, books and online portals. She edited the books Postajanje majkom u vreme neoliberalnog kapitalizma (Becoming a Mother in Neoliberal Capitalism, Uzbuna, Belgrade, 2013; 2nd ed., 2016) and Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2021) and co-edited the books Na ruševinama kreativnog grada (On the Ruins of Creative City, kuda.org, Novi Sad, 2012) and Fragments for Studies on Art Organisations, vol. 1 (kuda.org, Novi Sad, 2021).

She is a member of the Radical Housing Journal Editorial Collective, the editorial team of Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements for Central and Eastern Europe, and E.A.S.T (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational).

Links

• Academia.edu
• Profile on LSBU