Performative Gestures Political Moves

While acknowledging the “problem of
performativity”, Performative Gestures Political Moves, however, (still) lingers
on the term, exploring its echoing in the research focused on what should thus
also be considered as an effect of the performance of power – on the art and
theory production in so-called “Eastern Europe”.The book does not (only) represent
the research on performance art and performativity in a region denoted as “East
European”, but also produces positions that go beyond the representation(s) of
what performance art, performativity in/and “Post-Socialist Europe” are.

Performative
Gestures Political Moves therefore
also raises questions of historisation(s) and their ideological positioning.
Especially within feminist art history but also in feminist curating, the
question of labelling art production as feminist has been till today a burning
subject. How, what, when, why, where, by whom and for whom is (performance) art
feminist, obviously does not have an unambiguous answer. The same is true for art
and feminism as such. Therefore, the publication has aimed to foster a
reflection on research positions and theoretical considerations of
performativity, performance art, feminism, historisation and, above all, their
political implications in/and/for the “continental Post-Socialist” condition.

With
contributions by

Angela Dimitrakaki,
Ana Peraica, Barbara Orel, Dunja Kukovec, Grupa Spomenik and DeLVe, Marija
Ratković, Marina Gržinić, Martina Pachmanová, Milijana Babić, Suzana Milevska,
Tea Hvala, Waldemar Tatarczuk

Edited by

Katja Kobolt and Lana Zdravković

The Performative Gestures Political Moves has
been published by the City of Women, Ljubljana and Red Athena University Press,
a collaborative publishing project by the Centre for Women’s Studies Zagreb and
trans-Yugoslav feminist scholars.

Publishers

City
of Women – Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture

Red
Athena University Press Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Croatia - www.zenstud.hr

Co-organization of the presentation: Trubar
Literature House

Funded by: 
ERSTE Stiftung

The publication is in English.
To order and purchase: info@cityofwomen.org
Price: 16 eur