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'New Artistic Practices' in the Former Yugoslavia: From the Leftist Critique of Socialist Bureaucracy to the Post-Communist Artifacts in Neo-Liberal Institution of Art

The topic, descriptively condensed in this too long of a title, was the theme of one of the chapters of the documentary exhibition SKC in ŠKUC that I …

PPYUART: The Case of Students' Cultural Centre in the 1970s

My colleagues from Prelom and I have recently organized the documentary exhibition related to our research about "the case" of SKC in the …

PPYUART: Socialist Modernism and Partisan Culture

I got interested in 'partisans' through the two projects I was working on at the end of 2001: one was the art historical analysis of the socialist …

PPYUART: Vojin Bakic, New Tendencies and Yugoslav Socialist Modernism

The concepts and the representative practices of the 'Socialist Modernism' as the main principle of culture of the Yugoslav Socialist state is one of …

TV Gallery - PPYUART

Trough the few of the upcoming texts I was planning to thematize the exhibitions, projects and research related to the project Political Practices of …

Self-etnography of the free worker in the field of art and culture

After the conversation with Ronaldo Lemos, mostly dedicated to the questioning of relationships between self-organization and alternative business …

Peripheries, open businesses and creative work: Interview with Ronaldo Lemos

In the framework of the Festival of Free Culture No 2, that took place in Belgrade in the organization of slobodnakultura.org, Ronaldo Lemos, …

Political Practices of [-post] Yugoslav Art

My blogging for labforculture in the period between December '07 and April '08 obviously develops in the direction of research of different events, …

A visit to Kunsthistorische Mausoleum

Kunsthistorische mausoleum is one of the most exciting art spaces in Belgrade. It contains a steady, permanent display, but each visit definitely …

The interruption of the exhibition 'Exception: Contemporary Art Scene from Prishtina' - Two eyewitness account [part III]

part I part II 19:45, or so vlidi: Suddenly and silently, the cordon was split apart and police took the positions alongside the …

The interruption of the exhibition 'Exception: Contemporary Art Scene from Prishtina' - Two eyewitness account [part II]

part I 19:15 vlidi: Another street, another cordon. This was the next logical approach from the city center, trough Jevremova Street. …

The interruption of the exhibition 'Exception: Contemporary Art Scene from Prishtina' - Two eyewitness account [part I]

A week ago, on Thursday, February 7th, the opening of the exhibition 'Exception: Contemporary Art Scene from Prishtina' in Belgrade’s Kontekst …

Let's Talk About War Baby

Some days ago I had a pleasure to see the famous Dictionary of War - a grandiose 2 days X 8 hours piece of conference, a marathon performance, …

On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Creative Commons [part II]

Blue Monday: Luka, you usually end up your CV with the sentence saying you are waiting for the localization of Creative Commons to publish your work. …

On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Creative Commons [part I]

On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Creative Commons licenses, which was exactly at December 15, the four independent organizations: …

MUSEUM OF REVOLUTION - LOST OR FOUND?

I enjoyed the 'participation' in the project by BikVanDerPol What does it mean to participate?You get the invitation to come to the site of the …

Differentiated Neighborhoods: In the Search for a Socialist City

In my previous post I commented on the history of New Belgrade in relation to Yugoslav self-management practice of socialism, as well as to different …