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"I am Jugoslovenka!": Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism

Hardback

Main Details

Title "I am Jugoslovenka!": Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jasmina Tumbas
SeriesRethinking Art's Histories
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:344
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Postmodernism
Performance art
ISBN/Barcode 9781526156471
ClassificationsDewey:305.4209497
Audience
General
Illustrations 125 colour illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 22 February 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

Author Biography

Jasmina Tumbas is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo -- .

Reviews

'Examining both well-known and heretofore neglected artists, this book provides a nuanced discussion of gender, feminism and identity politics in the region. It also serves to widen the discussion about feminist performance practices and strategies beyond the canonical west.' Amy Bryzgel, Professor of Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen '"I am Jugoslovenka!" is an essential, nuanced feminist intervention into Yugoslav studies. In discussing Yugoslav feminist performance politics, the book places artists and performers as divergent as Marina Abramovic, Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova side by side. Tumbas effectively dismantles elitist hierarchies about "high" and "low" cultural production and feminist praxis during and after Yugoslavia.' Dijana Jelaca, Brooklyn College 'Jasmina Tumbas's book surveys the cultural landscape of late socialist Yugoslavia to reveal the figure of "Jugoslovenka" as an innovative theoretical construct that captures the simultaneity of emancipatory opportunities and entrenched patriarchy. Imaginative and original, it provides a much-needed extension of the ongoing feminist reassessment of state socialism to the field of art history.' Vladimir Kulic, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Iowa State University 'Tumbas's sensitive awareness of historical context is made in the deft interweaving of visual cultural analysis with the author's story as a refugee from Vojvodina in Germany in the early 1990s...' Art Monthly 'I am Jugoslovenka!" presents a supremely compact overview of performance politics during and after Yugoslav socialism, providing elaborated examples and visual analysis of numerous performances, events or figures that were seen as agents of female emancipation and empowerment. As Jasmina Tumbas not only expertly chooses and compiles the existing research material, but also engages in producing novel approaches and theoretical concepts that will, hopefully, initiate future interest and interpretations.' Dr. Jana Dolecki -- .