Jan 20
YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY: Film Screening
The film deals with the question of how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90s, 5th October revolution, etc.). Going back through the images, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people, ideology, and the state.
The film is a part of the two-year-long research project Performance and the Public, carried out by Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić, and Marta Popivoda of the Belgrade theoretical-artistic collective TkH [Walking Theory] at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in Paris. Apart from the film, the research resulted in the book Public Sphere by Performance by Bojana Cvejić and Ana Vujanović.