In Another Moment (1971) [EN/SR]

“The exhibition At Another Moment was conceptualized as curatorial translation of the temporary exhibition At the Moment, organized in the entrance of an apartment house in Frankopanska 2A, Zagreb, into a more “permanent” exhibition, taking place within the (alternative) institutional space of the Student Cultural Center (SKC) in Belgrade.”

Curated by Nena and Braco Dimitrijević; held in three consecutive periods: 15-20 September, 22-27 September, and 29 September-3 October 1971.

Participants: Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Jan Dibbets, Braco Dimitrijević, Barry Flanagan, KOD Group, OHO Group, Douglas Huebler, Alain Kirili, Jannis Kounellis, David Lamelas, John Latham, Sol LeWitt, Goran Trbuljak, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson.

Two introductory texts by Nena Dimitrijević
Designed by Nenad Čonkić and Braco Dimitrijević
Publisher Studentski kulturni centar, Belgrade, Oct 1971
[21] sheets

Commentary: Jelena Vesić (Parallel Chronologies).

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Daniel Buren: Five Texts (1973)

Artist Daniel Buren’s writings on minimal and conceptual art.

Contents:
Preface : Why write texts, or, The place from where I act —
I. Beware —
II. It rains, it snows, it paints —
III. Standpoints —
IV. Critical limits —
V. Function of the museum.

Publisher John Weber Gallery, New York, and Jack Wendler Gallery, London, 1973
64 pages
via x

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Branislav Jakovljević: Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91 (2016)

“In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989 was either “official” or “dissident” art, and shows that the break up of Yugoslavia was not a result of “ancient hatreds” among its peoples but instead came from the distortion and defeat of the idea of self-management.

The case studies include mass performances organized during state holidays; proto-performance art, such as the 1954 production of Waiting for Godot in a former concentration camp in Belgrade; student demonstrations in 1968; and body art pieces by Gina Pane, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, and others. Alienation Effects sheds new light on the work of well-known artists and scholars, including early experimental poetry by Slavoj Žižek, as well as performance and conceptual artists that deserve wider, international attention.”

Publisher University of Michigan Press, 2016
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License
ISBN 9780472900589
xii+369 pages

Reviews: Jestrović (Contemp Theatre Rev), Goulish (TDR), Tepavac (arcadia), Halilbašić (rezens.tfm), Radosavljević (Modern Drama), Jovićević (Peščanik).

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