Naslov
Back to the Squeare! Art, Activism and Urban Research in Post- socialism

Autori
Hanaček, Ivana ; Kutleša, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Autorske knjige, ostalo, strucna

Izdavač
Institut za povijest umjetnosti

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2016

Stranica
239

ISBN
978-953-95317-6-6

Ključne riječi
art in public space, post socialism, performance, deindustrialization

Sažetak
In the key institutions of the globalised art-world, art from ex- Yugoslav countries is represented primarily through the work of a few select artists whose careers were built during the peak of the socialist welfare state in the 1970s. Meanwhile, in these countries on the periphery of Europe, socially engaged and contextual artistic practices began to emerge questioning the restoration of capitalism. Strongly embedded in the social context, with the local public as their target audience and shaped by an uncompromising rejection of aestheticisation, these practices are hard to translate into the white cube. In international presentation, nuance can easily be lost in translation and the complexity of these practices reduced to simplified, often exotified images. Therefore it is necessary to invest special effort in unwrapping the social and political context in which the art intervenes. How have the broader political processes shaped the conditions of art production, and how have they changed its audience? How does the space in which the art appears, be it institutional or urban, transform? Lastly, how has the dominant discourse affected the way artists treat certain topics? The need to start from questions such as these can be seen as an intervention in the western-centric discourse of the global art-world, which too often leaves out analysis of broader economic, political and social conditions, appropriating art from the periphery without real interest for the context which shaped it.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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