Feminist Resistance from the Post-Yugoslav Periphery: Troubling the Representations of the (Ethnic) Other in Europe

Jasmina Tumbas
Lecture, 30′

In English
Free admission

In her book “I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism (2022), Jasmina Tumbas theorizes the concept of “Jugoslovenka” as the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia’s anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies during socialism and after its demise in the 1990s ethnic wars. In her analyses of a diverse range of performative actions in art and culture, such as performance art, conceptual art, video works, film, pop music, and lesbian activism, she explicates Jugoslovenkas’ queer-feminist artistic and political legacies of resistance within the (post-)Yugoslav region.

The lecture will focus on the photograph Bosnian Girl (2003) by Šejla Kamerić and both episodes of the video installation Before the Fall There Was No Fall by Anna Dasović: raw material (2019) and surfaces (2020). These artworks disrupt the representations of the ethnic “Other” formed by the international community during the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina (1992–1995) from different points of view: Jasmina Tumbas will talk about them from the perspective of feminist art and resistance from the post-Yugoslav periphery of Europe.

At 17.00 the lecture will be followed by artist talks (in English) by Šejla Kamerić and Anna Dasović, moderated by Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc.

This lecture will be live-streamed.

Organisation: City of Women as part of the European project BE PART co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, in co-operation with Škuc Gallery; support: Creative Europe, Ministry of Public Administration, Municipality of Ljubljana.