The art of thinking Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific …
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Surrealism — Nadrealizam
Yugoslavia — Serbia The collective activity of the Belgrade Surrealists began in the inspiring atmosphere brought on by two Surrealist manifestos by André Breton. The first joint edition the almanac Nemoguće-L′impossible was published in 1930 in Belgrade, with the manifesto signed by thirteen founding members of the movement.The members of the Belgrade Surrealist movement published …
Andromeda: Science Fiction Almanac
An old Yugoslav collection of science fiction works – in Serbo-Croatian – published by Galaksija (Galaxy) magazine as the Andromeda almanac in 1977. It included A report from the Cosmos by Ljubiša Jocić and an excerpt from 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues by Sam Lundwall which are below (in English). It’s worth preserving …
Bigger than Myself: Heroic Voices from ex-Yugoslavia
Unsung heroes, but human beings capable of influencing the course of political events and history: it is to them, to these civil heroes who often remain invisible and silent, to solidarity, and to the great ideals that today more than ever before are needed, that this exhibition is dedicated: “Bigger than Myself. Heroic Voices from …
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Songs We Sang Before the Future
In summer 1962, the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students took place in Helsinki, bringing together more than fifteen thousand people from all around the world engaged with the struggle for peace and in solidarity with global liberation movements. Openly aligning with the socialist bloc, the festival happened during the most antagonistic period of …
Ivana Bago: Yugoslav Fanonism in Three (Exhibitionary) Acts: 1950/1972/1989
Monday, 24 May 2021 In March 1950, Pallais de Chaillot in Paris, the home of the National Museum of French Monuments, became the site of the exhibition L’art médiéval yougoslave, the first large-scale official presentation of Yugoslav art in the West after WWII. Under the guidance of writer Miroslav Krleža (1893–1891), the project evolved from …
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The Working Class Is Off To Paradise (For May 1st)
The story takes us into the everyday lives of five former employees of the industrial giants in Zrenjanin, Serbia. Created in the form of a documentary drama the film gives a fresh insight into the fates of the forgotten heroes of the working class – people, who have overcome time, the system, the transition and …
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Yugoslav architect Svetlana Kana Radević is saluted at the Venice Architecture Biennale
“Svetlana Kana Radević, a socialist Yugoslav architect who effortlessly moved between and drew influence from Philadelphia, Tokyo, and the Montenegrin capital city of Podgorica over the course of her celebrated career is the subject of a comprehensive exhibition opening May 22 at the Palazzo Palumbo Fossati as one of 17 collateral events at the 17th …
Dissent of Zenitism – A Tribute
Artistic, Programmatic, Aesthetic, Political and Existential Critique of the World The journal Zenit (Zenith) was a Yugoslav avant-garde review of new art and culture, initiated in 1921 by the poet and critic Ljubomir Micić. Until 1923, it was published in Zagreb, and subsequently in Belgrade. Zenit was sharply criticised, prohibited even, and accused of being …
Transition to Nowhere
Art in History after 1989 Chapter I: The Condition Called Post-Communism The post-communist condition is often associated with post-politics: general consensus upon the only remaining path of history agreed beyond any ideological differences. It implies one essential feature, an all-encompassing notion of culture,or more precisely, the ability of culture to translate all conflicts into its …