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Title [sv]
Distrusting Monuments. Art and The War In Former Yugoslavia.
Abstract [en]
In recent times, on an international level, the conflict of commemoration between contemporary art and an older, nationalist memorial culture has gotten a lot of attention in conjunction with the movement of Black Lives Matter. Such a kind of conflict is ongoing with regards to the wars in Yugoslavia (1991-2001). In the process of moving from the present to the realm of the past, a re-evaluation of what will be remembered from the war and how is unavoidable. In former Yugoslavia, this process has come to involve a wide array of agents, materials and forms of expression. This project researches how contemporary art that is rooted in the region — artists, artists groups, collectives and organizations — has been tying in with this movement of memorialization since the end of the war, offering a critical perspective on an official history often embodied by monuments of heroism, nationalism and unity. Our research questions are: in what way does contemporary art represent the conflict in former Yugoslavia? Why is it a matter of contention in contemporary art today? Does art produce a new kind of memory culture?Gathering three researchers, with an expertise in aesthetics, political theory, memory culture and the cultural history of former Yugoslavia, the project will study the critical role of post-Yugoslav visual art with regards to transitional justice, the production of new monuments of genocide and the problematic link between memory culture and revisionist history.
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Sjöholm, C. (2023). Introduction: The politics of aesthetic historicizations and memory culture in former Yugoslavia. Baltic Worlds, XVI(4), 31-33
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: The politics of aesthetic historicizations and memory culture in former Yugoslavia
2023 (English)In: Baltic Worlds, ISSN 2000-2955, E-ISSN 2001-7308, Vol. XVI, no 4, p. 31-33Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Södertörns högskola, 2023
National Category
Arts Philosophy
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53001 (URN)
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 21-PR2-0015
Available from: 2024-01-05 Created: 2024-01-05 Last updated: 2024-01-05Bibliographically approved
Kirn, G. (2023). Partisan Ecology in Yugoslav Liberation and Antifascist Art. Baltic Worlds, XVI(4), 47-53
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Partisan Ecology in Yugoslav Liberation and Antifascist Art
2023 (English)In: Baltic Worlds, ISSN 2000-2955, E-ISSN 2001-7308, Vol. XVI, no 4, p. 47-53Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

Partisan and decolonial ecology is a notion addressed by Andreas Malm and Malcom Ferdinand respectively, in their texts on the Caribbean maroon partisans – the emancipated slaves – who moved to the more mountainous parts of the islands that were still covered by dense vegetation. This concept is here taken to another historical context, that of Yugoslav partisans’ fight against the fascist occupation in the Second World War. I engage in reading an array of partisan artworks that point to fascist domination/war over nature juxtaposed to emerging solidarity among humans and animals/nature. From poems and short stories to drawings and graphic art material, the subjectmatter of forest as a site of resistance and political subjectivity emerges. Diverse animals, pack of wolves, birds that continueto sing despite the thorny branches, the figure of the snail as the affect and attitude of resilience – these become “comrades” inthe struggle, mobilizing nature in their fight against fascism.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Södertörns högskola, 2023
Keywords
Partisan ecology, antifascism of non-human world, partisan aesthetics, becoming, “human animal”, poems, graphic art, figure of resistance
National Category
Arts
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53003 (URN)
Projects
Protests, artistic practices and culture of memory in the post-Yugoslav context
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 21-PR2-0015
Note

Funder: Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS, J6-3144)

Available from: 2024-01-05 Created: 2024-01-05 Last updated: 2024-01-05Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorSjöholm, Cecilia
Co-InvestigatorKirn, Gal
Co-InvestigatorKatz Thor, Rebecka
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2022-01-01 - 2024-12-31
Keywords [sv]
Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
Keywords [en]
Baltic and East European studies, Aesthetics, Cultural History, Political Theory
National Category
HistoryArt History
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:2959Project, id: 21-PR2-0015_OS

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