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Maja Bajevic. Ediz. italiana e inglese
July 1941, Zagreb, German occupied Yugoslavia. Men in trench coats and fedoras came to our apartment and summoned us to report to the police station in the morning. The men were Ustase, the Croatian equivalent of the Gestapo who were implementing the plan to rid Europe of Jews.I was seven years old. This is my story.
Catastrophe & Spectacle
From epidemics in the 17th century and the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 to Guernica in World War II, the essays in this volume trace the development of the catastrophic imagination, relying heavily on pictorial media and different forms of staging. Catastrophe in its modern sense seems to be inextricably linked to its spectacular representation, be it on the stage, on screen or in popular amusement parks. But the modern relationship between catastrophe and spectacle is also increasingly confronting us with the unimaginable side of catastrophe, particularly with regard to the Holocaust and in more recent times to the daily experience of refugees. The essays in this volume elucidate images of the catastrophes that have inspired them by providing a textual commentary that makes it possible to reconsider how the spectacular and the catastrophic are interrelated. Thus, the essays not only deal with the emergence of the modern spectacular imagination of catastrophe in terms of the history of both discourse and media, they also present themselves as a critique of catastrophe, one based on close readings of the scenes and images in question.
Performative Installation
"Performative installation is a five-part series of exhibitions initiated by Siemens Arts Program in cooperation with Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen; Secession, Vienna; and, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig."--p.[253]. Artists include: Victor Alimpiev and Marian Zhunin, Emanuelle Antille, Maja Bajevic and Emanuel Licha, BLESS, John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Angela Bulloch, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Brice Dellsperger, Ayse Erkmen, Andreas Fogarasi, Jef Geys, Oliver Hangl, Swetlana Heger, Jeppe Hein, Christine and Irene Hohenbuchler, Stefan Kern, Karl-Heinz Klopf, Sigrid Kurz, Dorit Margreiter, John Miller, Olaf Nicolai, Rene Pollesch, Pro qm, Lily van der Stokker, Apolonija Sustersic, and Swinger.
Post-Traumatic Art in the City
Setting the (Art) Scenes: A Comparative Approach to Site-Specific Discourses in Post-Conflict Cities -- Past/Present/Here/There: Voicing Loss and Dislocating Subjectivity in Danica Dakić's video installation Autoportrait (1999) -- Witnessing Besides the Forgotten: Maja Bajević's Performances Women at Work (1999-2001) -- Journeys in Time: Traversing Generational Memories with the Moving Image in Lamia Joreige's video A Journey (2006) -- Wounded Places: Architecture and Landscape in the Photographic Work of Paola Yacoub.
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- Part One: History, Theory, and Methodology for Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- The Study of Hungarian Culture as Comparative Central European Cultural Studies -- Literacy, Culture, and History in the Work of Thienemann and Hajnal -- Vámbéry, Victorian Culture, and Stoker's Dracula -- Memory and Modernity in Fodor's Geographical Work on Hungary -- The Fragmented (Cultural) Body in Polcz's Asszony a fronton (A Woman on the Front) -- Part Two: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies of Literature and Culture -- Contemporary Hungarian Literary Criticism and the Memory of the Socialist ...
Victims's Symptom
Victims' Symptom (PTSD and Culture) Victims' Symptom is a collection of interviews, essays, artists' statements and glossary definitions, which was originally launched as a Web project (http: //victims.labforculture.org). Produced in 2007, the project brought together cases related to past and current sites of conflict such as Sre- brenica, Palestine, and Kosovo reporting from different (and sometimes conflicting) international viewpoints. The Victims Symptom Reader collects critical concepts in media victimology and addresses the representation of victims in economies of war.
Outside
Outside: Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live explores cloth’s value, relevance and impact on societies today, recognising the constantly evolving fields of expression, often sited beyond art mediated contexts. The book explores cloth’s potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion. Invited curators, philosophers, artists and scholars employ a variety of didactic styles that include the conversational, metaphoric, process-orientated, poetic, and autobiographical. Each author takes their line of enquiry to the next on a unique journey that probes a range of empathetic modes of investigation and expression. Throu...
Innocence and Victimhood
The 1992–95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia became notorious for “ethnic cleansing” and mass rapes targeting the Bosniac (Bosnian Muslim) population. Postwar social and political processes have continued to be dominated by competing nationalisms representing Bosniacs, Serbs, and Croats, as well as those supporting a multiethnic Bosnian state, in which narratives of victimhood take center stage, often in gendered form. Elissa Helms shows that in the aftermath of the war, initiatives by and for Bosnian women perpetuated and complicated dominant images of women as victims and peacemakers in a conflict and political system led by men. In a sober ...
(Re)Visualizing National History
Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians of national treasure, and to educate citizens and subjects. At the same time, a great deal of attention has been paid to reshaping national histories and values in the wake of the collapse of the Communist bloc and the emergence of the European Union. (Re)Visualizing National History considers the wave of monument and museum building in Europe as part of an attempt to forge consensus in politic...
