You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped it

Višegodišnji umjetničko-istraživački projekt Vi ste Partiju izdale onda kada je trebalo da joj pomognete (2019. – 2022.) u cjelovitom obliku predstavljen je javnosti na samostalnoj izložbi u Muzeju moderne i suvremene umjetnosti u Rijeci 2022. godine. Projekt na inovativan način kroz različite medije suvremene umjetnosti zasnovane na društveno angažiranoj umjetničkoj praksi tematizira stradanje više od 850 kažnjenica na Golom otoku i Svetom Grguru od 1950. do 1956. godine nakon raskola Tita i Staljina. Marginalizirana ženska povijest polazišna je točka rizomatskog širenja, istraživanja i aktivacije teme kroz prostorne umjetničke intervencije na lokalitetima ženskog političkog logora, dvije izložbe, složene internetske stranice, publikacije, strateškog rada na medijskoj vidljivosti te diskurzivnog programa kroz niz radionica i razgovora. Projekt problematizira zajedničku amneziju nasilne ženske povijesti s ciljem uspostavljanja pravednijeg pamćenja te pritom poseže za subverzivnom komemoracijskom formom – antispomenikom – koji ne nameće sjećanje, već ga traži u stalno obnavljajućem prožimanju osporenih sjećanja i spoznaja te osjećajima publike. Tako projekt pokreće proces kolektivnog pamćenja kao jednog od načina prihvaćanja prošlosti i aktivno potiče rasprave oko toga kako se sjećamo, čega se sjećamo i koja je uloga prošlosti u budućnosti. Također, stremi ka osvještavanju činjenice kako je logorska struktura uvijek moguća, kao i tiho odobravanje i sudjelovanje u totalitarnim režimima koji se naziru oko nas, odnosno kako je odgovornost otpora na svima nama.The several-years-long artistic research project You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It (2019-2022), integrally was presented to the public in an individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka in 2022. The project, in an innovative manner and employing various media of contemporary art founded on socially engaged artistic practice, takes up the issue of the sufferings of more than 850 female convicts on Goli Otok and Sveti Grgur Island from 1950 to 1956 after the Tito-Stalin schism. Women’s history, which has been marginalized, is the point of departure for a rhizomatic broadening of, research into and activation of the theme through spatial artistic interventions at sites of the women’s political prison camp, through two exhibitions, complex Web sites, publications, strategic work on media visibility and a discursive programme through a series of workshops and discussions. The project problematises the common amnesia concerning violence in women’s history with the object of setting up a more just memory and at the same time avails itself of a subversive commemorative form, the anti-monument, which does not enforce remembrance but rather searches for it in the constantly renewed permeation of contested memory and knowledge and in the feelings of the public. And so, the project has set in motion a process of collective memory as one of the ways of accepting the past and has actively instigated debates about how we remember, what we remember and what the role of the past in the future is. It also aspires to raise awareness of the fact that the structure of camp is always possible, as are tacit approval of and participation in the totalitarian regimes that are discernible around us; in other words, that resistance is incumbent upon all of us