Marta Popivoda: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

Marta Popivoda will introduce and discuss concepts and ideas from theoretical - artistic research project Performance and the Public (Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers) that she did in collaboration with theorists Ana Vujanović and Bojana Cvejić. She will specifically focus on the artistic aspects of the research and her film Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, that will be presented before the artist talk.

It’s a research-based essay film that 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.). Traversing this archival footage, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people, ideology, and the state.

Marta Popivoda (Belgrade) is a Berlin-based filmmaker, video-artist, and researcher. Her work explores tensions between memory and history, collective and individual bodies, as well as ideology and everyday life, with a focus on antifascist and feminist potentialities of the Yugoslav socialist project.

Event is part of the cycle entitled What a Body Can Do? initiated by Juraj Mydla in cooperation with tranzit.sk.

Event will be held in English. All details about the online event are available "here"://https://www.facebook.com/events/2528495407451247/?active_tab=about.