Socializing the Partisan Archive

international workshop, April 22nd and 23rd I FDV + ZRC SAZU

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation from fascism, the workshop Socializing the Partisan Archive raises the question of how to rethink, archive and practice antifascism today. In a wide range of presentations, the program manager of the City of Women, Iva Kovač, will talk about the creation and interpretation of archives of socialist and anti-colonial solidarities in art through artistic practices presented as part of the City of Women program.

The National Liberation War was a real turning point, and we must think of it and remember it as such. This reflection does not concern our debt to past generations, but rather speaks primarily about our generations and our re-engagement in a period of extremes. Today, war and militarization are becoming an increasingly important part of everyday life, geopolitical blocs are increasingly consolidated, and capitalist contradictions and environmental changes are increasingly brutal.

It is precisely in such a situation that looking back at similar social circumstances and forces that truly changed the world through collective resistance can become one way of mobilizing past sources of emancipation. Thus, we will be interested in whether the power of a community of resistance also lies in remembrance, which can unite national, class, gender, and other intersectional categories?