Zagreb Reading Group Sessions

22. i 24.05. ; / 29. i 31.05. / 05. i 07.06. to be arranged; Galerija SC
reading groups

TBA

Zagreb: Book Launch CONTEMPORARY ART and NATIONALISM

Book launch followed by discussion on
CONTEMPORARY ART AND NATIONALISM

25.05.; 20h Galerija SC

Sezgin Boynik and Minna Henriksson will present the book ‘Contemporary Art and Nationalism – Critical Reader’, which is a collection of critical texts about the relation of nationalism and contemporary art. It analyzes the situations, and economical and political moments, in which contemporary art, which is always perceived as critical and anti-traditional, serves as a mechanism of materialization of regressive movements of authenticity and originality of nationalism.

Writers to the book are Boris Buden, Sarat Maharaj, Rastko Mocnik, Misko Suvakovic, Simon Sheikh, Mika Hannula, Marita Muukkonen, Margaret Tali, Marina Grznic, Kobena Mercer, Paul Wilson, Nebojsa Jovanovic, Ivor Stodolsky, Suzana Milevska, Erden Kosova, Sezgin Boynik, Branislav Dimitrijevic. Edited by Sezgin Boynik and Minna Henriksson. Published by MM-publication and Missing Identities -project, Kosova, May 2007.

Sezgin Boynik is a sociologist currently working in Istanbul on a book on punk and underground movement in Turkey in the late 80s and 90s. Previously he has worked on the Situationist International. With Minna Henriksson his ongoing project is on contemporary art and nationalism.

Minna Henriksson is an artist working broadly in the art field. Her artistic work is based on social research. In the recent years she has been working a lot in the South-East Europe.

Zagreb Talk: Sezgin Boynik: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF INTERNATIONALISM

Talk and discussion:
May 22nd, 20 – 22h; Galerija SC

The talk examines the disappearance of internationalism from the alternative cultural scene: how, although artists are now traveling much more now than what they did in the ‘70s or ‘80s, they are considerably less aware of the conceptual and historical importance of internationalism than before. For many artists ‘internationalism’ is only about friend-networks, gossiping and personal psychological stories. For example, in the ‘80s underground scene in Turkey and many similar countries, especially in the hard-core punk scene, even though they did not have many tools for communication, people knew what was going on in Peru, Poland, Stockholm, USA and Malaysia.

In his lecture Boynik will develop, with a number of visual examples, a theory about the disappearance of internationalism in the arts and the alternative cultural networks: what influence the non-critical post-modern approaches in the arts and culture had on this, how the optimism of cyber-futurism as well as nationalism are connected to this disappearance.

Sezgin Boynik is a sociologist currently working in Istanbul on a book on punk and underground movement in Turkey in the late 80s and 90s. Previously he has worked on the Situationist International. With Minna Henriksson his ongoing project is on contemporary art and nationalism.

reading list

Jean-Luc Nancy “Singular Plural” (first chapter in “Being Singular Plural”), and maybe also “Inoperative community”?
Agamben “Becoming Community”?
Benjamin, Walter, Author as Producer (?)
Bhabha, Homi K. Kako novina ulazi u svijet : postmoderni prostor / postkolonijalno doba i ku‰nje kulturalnog prijevoda / Homi K. Bhabha ; s engleskog preveo Goran Vujasinoviç 2004
Deleuze, Gilles, A Conversation: What is it? What is it for?
Agamben, Giorgio, Homo Sacer
Jameson, Fredric, The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System
Fanon, Franz, The Wretched of the Earth,
Hobsbawm, Izmi‰ljanje tradicije
nacije i nacionalizam..
Mbembe, Achile Provisional notes on the Postcolony
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London, 1983
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2000.
Fabian, Johannes, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object, Columbia University Press, New York, 1983
Sontag, Susan, Fotografije rata/ Fantom slobode 1-2, 2004. str 263.
Sassen, Saskia , Globalisation and Unsettlement, 9. Istanbul biennale katalog 9, str. 141
Babias, Marius, On the strategic use of politics and the contest of art, 9. Istanbul biennale katalog,
Jenks, Chris, Gledajte kamo hodate: povijest I djelatnost flaneura, Vizualna kultura, str. 203, jesenski I turk 2002
Groys, Boris, Povratak originala. O repolitizaciji umjetnosti, Katalog criss cross
Buden, Boris, Dislokacija kulture, Bastard 1998 decembar
Zizek, Slavoj, Denkverbot, Bastard 1998 decembar
Beck, Ulrich, Intervju, Bastard 1998 decembar
Giddens, Antony, Intervju, Bastard 1998 decembar
Said, Edward, Orjentalizam,
Said, Edward, Krivotvorenje islama
Foucault, Michel, Nadzor I kazna posuditi od Emine
Foucault, Michel, Znanje I moc, pogovor, nakladni zavod globus
Zovko, Jure Walter Benjamin, esteticki izazovi ,Status, 9
Benjamin Walter , Fragmenti, Status, 9
Hassan, Ihab, Kultura indetrminacij I imanencija: margine postmodernog doba, Republika br. 10-12, 1985
Holmes, Brian, Kultura jednakosti putem sudjelovanja, Nova novine 6
Ault, Julie, Izlozba kao politicki prostor, Nova novine 7