Exhibition catalogue. Installation concerned with the voice of the individual victim in war.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
A monograph produced and designed in close collaboration with the artist; forms a personal scrapbook of her life and influences, ranging from Buddhism, the aboriginals of Australia and religious iconography, to Western artists such as Joseph Beuys.
Based upon the Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić (2011-17), an interdisciplinary participatory research art project that included academic and artistic research, five creative workshops, a number of public events, one group performance, and two exhibitions involving more then 30 women.
A collection of polemical writings, assaults, comments and theoretical discussions and analysis that appeared in reaction to the eponymous video, made in Belgrade, in 2007.
In Serbian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, street theatre, paintings, and ideas that pay witness to authoritarian pasts.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This memoir spans Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art.
How did performance artists of the '60s and '70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the '80s, '90s and today? This book argues that the centrality of performance to monuments and indeed public art in general rests not on its ephemerality or anti-authoritarian rhetoric, but on its power to build interpersonal bonds both personal and social.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
A radical theorization of a particular (Eastern European) position / repoliticization, this book offers a very detailed inquiry into specific Post-Socialist art and media strategies.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
An in-depth research on the theme of borders and motherhood.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
A diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, considers the interaction of politics and the visual in such topics as the political consequences of a photograph taken by an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian house in Ramallah; AIDS activism; images of social suffering in Iran; the “forensic architecture” of claims to truth; and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Transcending disciplines, they trace a broader image complex whereby politics is brought to visibility through the mediation of specific cultural forms that mix the legal and the visual, the hermeneutic and the technical, the political and the aesthetic.
This article observes the historical examples of student struggle in former Yugoslavia by looking at the role of art in articulating that political firld and by applying artistic strategis to historical reconstruction.
The book exposes the activity of the OHO Group (1966-1971) and of the movement OHO-Catalogue (1966-1970) in the context of Slovene national culture, Yugoslavian socialistic culture and international youth culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Shown at The Lowry Theatre at Manchester International Festival 2011
A series of episodes exploring life in a spasm, liminal spaces and the body as a permanent site of trauma.
Book about the erasure of tens of thousands of people from the register of permanent residents, which took place after Slovenia gained independence.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).