Event overview
Jasmina Tumbas (SUNY, Buffalo) examines the feminist legacy of socialist Yugoslavia through the figure of "Jugoslovenka” in art and culture.
The Feminist Legacy of Socialist Yugoslavia: Jugoslovenka and her Performance Politics
With Zach Blas and Jasmina Tumbas
Tumbas' talk examines women’s feminist performance politics in art and culture under Yugoslav Socialism (1948–1992), during its disintegration in the 1990s, and in the post-socialist context to the present day. Central to her study is the concept of the Jugoslovenka, or Yugoslav woman, a term Tumbas uses to link diverse cultural expressions of feminist resistance in the emancipatory actions and works of multiple generations of women who lived under Yugoslav socialism, or who were born during the Republic and came of age during its 1990s partition into independent nations. In a visual exegesis of women’s political resistance to patriarchal cultural control during socialism and neo-liberal capitalism, her talk hones in on what emancipatory strategies meant during socialism, along with an analysis of Yugonostalgic feminist practices after the end of socialism. Feminist and queer art of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as contemporary engagements with the question of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s will be foregrounded through an analysis of individual works by artists such as Sanja Iveković, Tanja Ostojić, Selma Selman, and Marina Abramović.
Image: Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, Biloactions, video still, 1990.
This lecture is associated with our “Sexes, Genders, Genres” research cluster.
Biographies
Jasmina Tumbas (PhD, Art History, Duke University) is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History & Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is currently finalizing her first book, “I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester University Press), and is also working on a second manuscript, On Gender Violence and Nationalism In Europe: Feminist Art and Resistance Beyond Citizenship. Tumbas was a Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2018 Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in 2018, and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo in 2017. Tumbas was guest-editor of ArtLeaks Gazette #5:Patriarchy Over and Out: Discourse Made Manifest, which was launched during the 2019 Venice Biennale opening at S.a.L.E. Docks, and at Independent Curators International in New York.
Zach Blas is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans moving image, computation, theory, performance, and science fiction. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Blas exhibits and lectures internationally. With Melody Jue and Jennifer Rhee, he is co-editor of the anthology Informatics of Domination, forthcoming from Duke University Press. His artist monograph Unknown Ideals will be published by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst and Sternberg Press in 2021.
Dates & times
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19 Nov 2020 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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