Rethinking Yugoslav Art I: The Catalyzing Dreamworlds of Late and Post Socialist Art

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

How does art incite liberatory potential in times of political quietism, repression, or despair? With an intermedial and comparative scope that considers visual art across former socialist and soviet spheres, each paper in this panel examines artistic practices that invite their contemporaries to imagine alternatives to the entrenched official / dominant narratives of the last forty years. Ultimately, this panel aims to foster a conversation around how art can function as a catalyst for envisioning and enacting future modes of liberation still out of reach in the present. This panel hopes to contribute to the field of New Yugoslav Studies.

Sub Unit

• Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts

Chair

• Marijeta Bozovic, Yale U

Papers

• Cardboard Hare and Gasoline: Conceptual Performance at the Time of Glasnost - Nadezhda Gribkova, U of Chicago

• Queering Yugoslav (Dis)integration: Diasporic Resistance in Contemporary Art - Jasmina Tumbas, SUNY Buffalo

• The (Post-)Socialist Futures of Jasmina Cibic - Nicoletta G Rousseva, Indiana U Bloomington

Discussant

• Amy Bryzgel, Northeastern U