Professional gathering and academy – Awareness! Resist! React! Performance and politics in the post-Yugoslav context of the 90s

The 1990s, as a decade of war, disintegration and crisis, had different beginnings in these areas. Linda Gusia, Asja Mandić, Bojana Piškur, Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski and Rok Vevar will talk about these specifics, as well as possible interpretations of artistic practices in the context of resistance. Furthermore, Ljubica Anđelković Džambic, Josipa Bubaš, Zvonimir Dobrović, Suzana Marjanić and Darko Šimičić will present some particularities of the Croatian context and separate author’s works represented at the exhibition. In the final part, in cooperation with Studio Artless and Udruga Domino in Gorgona Hall, a ceremonial academy will be held dedicated to Željko Zorica Šiš, performer, multimedia artist, designer and writer.

Program

10.30 – 10.40 Vesna Meštrić, MSU director and Jasna Jakšić, MSU senior curator, welcome speech

10.40 – 11.00 Bojana Piškur: Performance and politics in the post-Yugoslav context of the 1990s

11.00 – 11.20 Asja Mandić: Performative as resistance to war violence and transition

11.20 – 11.40 Biljana Tanurovska Kjulakovski: Mapping historical assumptions of political performance as an expanded field in North Macedonia

11.40 – 12.00 Rok Vevar: Performance and politics in Slovenia in the transition period of the 1990s 12.00 – 12.20 Linda Gusia: Humor as resistance – Theater Dodona

12.20 – 12.40 Discussion

12.40 – 13.20 Lunch break

13.20 – 13.40 Suzana Marjanić: Communitas of the independent scene of the nineties in Croatia: LAE (1991), ATTACK! (1997), MMC Palach (1997)

13.30 – 13.50 Darko Šimičić: Paranoia View Art

13.50 – 14.10 Ljubica Anđelković Džambic: Body of resistance of Satan of Pannonia: from autobiography to action

14.20 – 14.35 Zvonimir Dobrović: History of political performance

14.35 – 14.50 Josipa Bubaš: Performances and actions of Boris Šincek

14.50 – 15.20 Visit to the exhibition Awareness! Resist! React! Performance and politics in the post-Yugoslav context of the 1990s and discussion

15.20 – 15.50 Visit to the exhibition Tomislav Gotovac a.k.a. Antonio G. Lauer: an ascending descending genealogy

17.00 – 18.30 Gorgon Hall Festive academy on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the birth of intermedial artist Željko Zorica Šiš, in cooperation with Studio Artless and Udruga Domino. Participants: Marina Protrka Štimec, Bosiljko Domazet, Nikola Iskra, Zvonimir Dobrović, Matea Antunović, Igor Pavlica, Damir Prica Kafka, Ivan Marincel and other friends and guests, with text reading by Suzana Marjanić, music and video works by Željko Zorica Šiš. The program is led by Škart Pro.