Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space Case Studies in Hauntology

Contents

Lists of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Yugoslav Hauntologies

Jonathan Blackwood and Jasmina Tumbas

2. Miraz/Dowry: On the Dialectics of Loss 

Bojana Pejić

3. Overcoming Art

Bojan Ivanov

4. Yugoslav Venation: Skeletal Traces of the Past in the Practice of the Present

Jonathan Blackwood

5. Counter-cartographies of Post-Yugoslav Art

Jelena Petrović

6. Ecstatic Bodies: An Archive of Queer Performative Bodies in North Macedonia

Slavcho Dimitrov and Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski

7. Living in the Post

Janka Vukmir

8. Yugoslav Anti-colonial Endeavors in Art and Culture: Particular Cases of the Previous Century 

Bojana Piškur and Ivana Vaseva

9. Resonating Silence: Curating the Yugoslav Narrative in Recent X-ennials

Maja Ćirić

10. Blackness beyond the Euro-American Lens as Exhibited and Documented in the 2000s at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, Serbia

Sunnie Rucker-Chang

11. Practice against Systematic Errors: Cultural Institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a Case Study of the KRAK Center

Irfan Hošić

12. The Common Language of the Yugoslav Cultural Space

Nela Gligorović          

13. Archival Encounters: On Reconfiguring Art Historical Discourses 

Hana Halilaj

14. Yugoslav People’s Art

Bojana Videkanić

15. (Re)Animating the Commons: Repoliticizing Environmental Violence through Counter-Narrating in Art-Activist Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Damir Arsenijević

16. The Return of the Class Struggle or From Socialist Self-Management to Neoliberal Self-Exploitation

Katja Praznik

17. The Yugoslavia of the Mind: Diasporic Practices

Hana Ćurak

Index

Biography

Jonathan Blackwood is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He is active as a curator and writer and has been working for nearly twenty years in the former Yugoslav space, focusing on cultural ecologies and intersections between the practices of contemporary art and radical politics.

Jasmina Tumbas is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, the University at Buffalo, USA. Her research focuses on queer and feminist interventions, diasporic resistance, and migration in contemporary art. She is the author of "I Am Jugoslovenka!" Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism.

"Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: A Case Studies in Hauntology is a timely volume that offers an innovative approach to diverse art-based practices in the context of the urgent necessity to imagine viable alternatives to global neoliberal regimes of violence. Through the analytics of hauntology, this impressive collection embraces a spectral illumination of socialist legacies across a range of critically intersecting considerations related to art/activism during and after Yugoslavia."

-- Dijana Jelača, Brooklyn College, USA