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Born 1978 in [[Pančevo]], Yugoslavia. She is the author of numerous articles in the fields of criticism, theory and art history. She graduated from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University, and completed her postgraduate studies in stage design at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She finished her doctoral studies with the Group for Theories of Art and Media, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is engaged in the artistic-activist initiative “Tourrorist Agency”, and she is particularly interested in creating alternative sensitive models of being outside existing sets of power relations. She is a director of [[ProSfera]], based in Pančevo, Serbia from 2007.
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'''Ana Vilenica''' is an urban researcher and art theoretician. 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.
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She holds a PhD from the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she defended her thesis in Theory of Art and Media entitled “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 researched the role of art and culture in urban regeneration in Serbia and the impact of regenerative art on the neo-colonial modernisation of the 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.
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She contributes regularly to journals, books and online portals. She edited the books ''[[Media:Vilenica Ana ur Postajanje_majkom_u_vreme_neoliberalnog_kapitalizma 2013.pdf|Postajanje majkom u vreme neoliberalnog kapitalizma]]'' (Becoming a Mother in Neoliberal Capitalism, Uzbuna, Belgrade, 2013; 2nd ed., 2016) and ''[[Media:Vilenica_Ana_ed_Radical_Housing_Art_Struggle_Care_2021.pdf|Radical Housing: Art, Struggle, Care]]'' ([https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/radical-housing-art-struggle-care/ Institute of Network Cultures], Amsterdam, 2021) and co-edited the books ''[[Media:Vilenica Ana centar kuda.org ur Na_rusevinama_kreativnog_grada 2012.pdf|Na ruševinama kreativnog grada]]'' (On the Ruins of Creative City, kuda.org, Novi Sad, 2012) and ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23186 Fragments for Studies on Art Organisations, vol. 1]'' (kuda.org, Novi Sad, 2021).
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She is a member of the [http://www.radicalhousingjournal.org Radical Housing Journal Editorial Collective] and the editorial team of ''[https://www.interfacejournal.net Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements for Central and Eastern Europe]''. (2022)
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* [https://independent.academia.edu/AnaVilenica Academia.edu]
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* [https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people/people-finder/dr-ana-vilenica Profile on LSBU]
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Latest revision as of 21:36, 13 January 2024

Ana Vilenica is an urban researcher and art theoretician. 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, where she defended her thesis in Theory of Art and Media entitled “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 researched the role of art and culture in urban regeneration in Serbia and the impact of regenerative art on the neo-colonial modernisation of the 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 and the editorial team of Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements for Central and Eastern Europe. (2022)

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