Fiction Reconstructed : Eastern Europe, Post-Socialism & the Retro-Avant-Garde

"The point of departure is a difference between Eastern and Western Europe that I try to conceptualize philosophically, insisying on a difference - a critical difference within and not a special classification method marking the process of grounding differences. This book can be perceived as a radical theorization of a particular (Eastern European) position; here positioning means repoliticization. Fiction Reconstructed offers a very detailed inquiry into specific Post-Socialist art and media strategies." -- p. [4] of cover

Memoria e historia y el acto de recordar

In this era of global neoliberal necro-capitalism, we are increasingly faced with a political and social amnesia that yields results without the past producing more and more processes of dehistorization and depoliticization. In these processes is fundamental the logic of repetition (neoliberal), which produces at least two different procedures of (de) historicization. On the one hand, we have the logic of the Western neoliberal world, which functions as a mere transhistorical machine; On the other hand, in the eastern and southern regions of Europe we detect forced techniques to accept historicization as totalization. In both cases, the result is a suspension of the history whose primary intention is to discard any alternative it contains. Gržinić's idea is to offer some examples and, even more, try to define these processes on a much broader scale, in order to see their political, social and cultural consequences.En esta época de necrocapitalismo neoliberal global, cada vez más nos hallamos ante una amnesia política y social que arroja resultados sin que el pasado produzca más y más procesos de deshistorización y despolitización. En estos procesos es fundamental la lógica de la repetición (neoliberal), que produce al menos dos procedimientos diferentes de (des)historización. Por un lado, tenemos la lógica del mundo neoliberal occidental, que funciona como una mera máquina transhistórica; por el otro, en las regiones del este y el sur de Europa detectamos unas técnicas forzadas para aceptar la historización como totalización. En ambos casos, el resultado es una suspensión de la historia cuya intención primaria es desechar cualquier alternativa que contenga. La idea de Gržinić es ofrecer algunos ejemplos y, aún más, tratar de definir estos procesos en una escala mucho más amplia, a fin de ver sus consecuencias políticas, sociales y culturales

Mind the Map : History is Not Given : A Critical Anthology Based on the Symposium

"Mind the Map! History Is Not Given takes as its point of departure the project East Art Map (EAM) by the Slovenian fine arts group IRWIN. East Art Map is a project that tracks back in history (over the past 50 years) the art works and cultural processes in the territory known as the former Eastern Europe. [...] The book presents the theoretical and artistic positions of the young scholars, professors and artists who participated in the symposium that has been held in October 2005 in Leipzig, and it also includes an additional selection of texts and art works." -- e-flux.co

In Sight : Media Art from the Middle of Europe

Investigating the notion of central European identity through the events of the recent past, the authors describe some of the problems related to artistic production in Slovenia, write on the introduction of video into Romanian art classes, and document Polish video art since 1973. Biographical notes on 16 artists

The Militant Image Reader

"The Militant Image Reader brings together eight diverse texts from theorists and artists from Europe and North America that speculate on the relationship of artistic representation and social change today." -- Publisher's website