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MATCH BALL

37^th Split Salon, November 4 – December 4, 2011, Diocletian’s Palace, Split

By Anita Kojundžić

When the Uzor company from Split declared bankruptcy in February 2011, we witnessed another fall of a once successful business. In early June, since the material conditions to continue its operations ceased to exist, all the employees (and all of them female), were made redundant. Frustrated by another victim of conversion and privatisation à la croate, a crowd of people tried to sympathise with the workers, by organising public actions that were followed by the media, but it all ended exactly where it started – it was nothing more than a symbolic gesture of support from a small group of people.

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LIVING ARCHIVES OF POST-YUGOSLAV FEMINIST ART

Bring In Take Out – Living Archive, Gliptoteka HAZU (Croatian Academy of Arts and Science), Zagreb, October 13-16, 2011

By Tihana Bertek

For the purpose of the conference entitled REDuction: Trans-Yugoslav Feminism and Female Heritage (October 13-16, 2011), Gliptoteka in Zagreb hosted the Bring In Take Out – Living Archive exhibition. It was organised by the Red Min(e)d Association, more specifically, its members and curators: Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović. Red Min(e)d aims to build and make visible an open archive of feminist art, as well as raise awareness about the issue of female heritage and feminism in general regarding the post-Yugoslav territory. According to their own words, the curators see feminist art as an open space for experimentation and a means to fight against the calcified academic and legitimately institutionalised systems. The exhibition dealt with the unacknowledged part of women in the history of the Balkans, how they were systematically underestimated through selective memory and patriarchal concept of historiography. more >

PASSING BY AS ABSOLUTE SPACE OF TRAVEL

Exhibition Passing by Nika Radić, Multimedia Culture Centre Split (MCC), October 13-27, 2011

By Anita Kojundžić

In late October, at the Multimedia Culture Centre Split, Nika Radić’s second exhibition in Split since 1996 was held, although she is a very successful multimedia artist with over 30 solo exhibitions here and abroad. The author has been dealing with the issue of the (im)possibility of communication for many years now, the relationship between language and meaning and the issue of artistic reception.

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