kuda.org (eds.): The Continuous Art Class: The Novi Sad Neo-Avant-Garde of the 1960s and 1970s (2005) [Serbian/English]
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, art, art history, neo-avant-garde, serbia, yugoslavia
“Although characterised by local specificities the Novi Sad Neo-Avantgarde of the 1960’s and 1970’s has been treated like other Eastern European arts. Other than a few exceptions, it has not been the focus of scholarly research. This is closely related to the social framework in which the artistic practice was carried out, as well as to the obstacles this social context engendered. Together these help to illustrate the impact of youth movements during that time, the geopolitical position and internal affairs of Yugoslavia, particularly within the local context of Vojvodina and Novi Sad.
The book is published on the occasion of “The Continuous Art Class” exhibition in Novi Sad, from the November 18th to the December 3rd, 2005. The exhibition is part of the longterm project “The Continuous Art Class”, and contextualizes project of research of this specific period. The other texts in the publication include: Media Ontology – Mapping of Social and Art History in Novi Sad by kuda.org, Relay as a New Economy of Scale by Katherine Carl, Collective Cultural Practices, Between the Sentiment and Functionality of Creative Communities by Branka Ćurčić, as well as arists, works, video documentation, referent literature presented at the exhibition.”
Translation: Orfeas Skutelis, Nikolina Knežević
Publisher: Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2005
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ISBN 3865882226
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Comment (0)Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber: Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, city, self-organization, urbanism, yugoslavia
“The artist book by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber is based on an unpublished orginal text by French philosopher and urbanist Henri Lefebvre which is printed as a facsimile. This central text is contextualized and interpretated by accompanying commentaries and texts by Ljiljana Blagojevic, Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and Neil Smith.
The text from Henri Lefebvre was submitted as part of a proposal with French architects Serge Renaudie and Pierre Guilbaud for the International Competition for the New Belgrade Urban Structure Improvement in 1986, sponsored by the state of Yugoslavia. In his urban vision for New Belgrade—the capital of former Yugoslavia founded in 1948—Lefebvre emphasizes the processes and potentials of self-organization of the people of any urban territory to counter the failed concepts of urban planning from above. For Lefebvre, at this late point in his life, the promises of both modernist capitalist as well as state socialist architecture and city planning had failed. Yet, Lefebvre viewed New Belgrade and Yugoslavia as having a particular position in what he has elsewhere called “the urban revolution.” As Lefebvre states, “because of self-management, a place is sketched between the citizen and the citadin, and Yugoslavia is today [1986] perhaps one of the rare countries to be able to pose the problem of a New Urban.””
Edited by Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber (Urban Subjects)
With contributions by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and Neil Smith
Publisher: Sternberg Press, with Fillip, Vancouver, 2009
ISBN 9781933128771
160 pages
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Comments (7)Dona Kolar-Panov: Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1990s, australia, migration, video, war, yugoslavia
Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Macedonian and Croatian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups on the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She vividly describes the migrant audience’s daily emcounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness.
Publisher Routledge, 1997
ISBN 0415148804, 9780415148801
270 pages
Keywords and phrases
Serbian, Western Australia, Stjepan Radic, Serbs, SFRJ, Perth, SBS-TV, Vukovar, semiosphere, Republic of Macedonia, Zagreb, Opuzen, satellite television, Skopje, video tapes, Sibenik, Aegean Macedonia, folk music, Croatian diaspora, intertitle
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