Positive / Negative Program
December 8th - 23rd 2004

Wednesday, December 8th, Academy of Fine Arts, Obala Maka Dizdara 3

SEMINAR:
Lecturer Bojana Pejic (Berlin)
THE COMMUNIST BODY: Politics of Representation and Spazialization of Power in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ), 1945-1991

11.00-12.00 am

Towards a Definition of the Communist Body

12.15-1.15 pm

Yugoslav Communist Party (KPJ): A New "Mother" for the New Society and the Advent of the "Socialist Subject"
People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Art after the Revolution

3.00-4.00 pm

Monument as Producer of the Revolutionary Body (I)
The Flame of the Revolution: The Body in Revolt

Monument as Producer of the Revolutionary Body (II)
The Altar of the Revolution: The Body in Pain

4.15-5.15 pm

Victory of Socialist Modernism in SFRJ

Thursday, December 9th, Academy of Fine Arts, Obala Maka Dizdara 3

11.00-12.00 am

Daughters of the Revolution - In Real Life and in Representation

12.15-1.15 pm

Monument as Producer of the Revolutionary Body (III)
Construction of the "Unknown Comrades" (1945-1991)
Undisciplined Body

5.00-7.00 pm

Picture of Comrade Tito: Photography, Iconicity and Allegorical Documentary

EXHIBITIONS:

Opening on Thursday, December 9th, 8 pm , National Gallery of B&H, Zelenih beretki 8 December 9 -23

Goranka Matic (Belgrade), "Softly Does the Sutjeska Flows"

HEROES:
Nebojsa Seric-Soba (Sarajevo), "Heroes"
Kurt&Plasto (Sarajevo), "By the Commission's Decision: Everyone to One's Own"
Sokol Beqiri (Peja), "Peoples II"

Friday, December 10th, National Gallery of B&H, Zelenih beretki 8

PANEL DISCUSSIONS: Moderator: Bojana Pejic
Panel 1: Monuments and Violence

10.30 am - 3.00 pm

Introduction to the Panel Discussion - projection of documentary film Damnation Memoriae, directed by Bogdan Zizic (Zagreb)

Panelists:
Enver Kazaz (Sarajevo), Branislav Dimitrijevic (Belgrade),
Dubravko Lovrenovic (Sarajevo), Ibrahim Krzovic (Sarajevo), Bogdan Zizic (Zagreb),
Petar Cukovic, (Podgorica), Milorad Zivanovic (Banja Luka).
Presentation: Arch. Azra Hadzimuhamedovic (Sarajevo), The Stolac Case

5.00 - 8.00 pm

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Boris Buden (Zagreb-London), "In the Shoes of Communism"
Sokol Beqiri (Peja), "Peoples"
Petar Cukovic (Podgorica), "The Orchid"

Saturday, December 11th, National Gallery of B&H, Zelenih beretki 8

10.00 am - 6.00 pm

Panel 2: Dealing with the Past
Moderator: Senadin Musabegovic

Themes:
Misuse of history - history as a political instrument - forgotten past / invented past
Reviving myths - old / new myths - character and mitologization of the wars 1991/2 - 1995/6 - 1999.
Polarization of Symbols
Revising history - WW II, fascism - anti-fascism - consequences.
Ethno-nationalism - National Socialism; Socialism - nationalism.
How to recognize fascism today?
Post-totalitarian Subjects: Women's policy and activism relating the ruling politics and ideologies

Panelists:
Olivera Milosavljevic (Belgrade), Ugo Vlaisavljevic (Sarajevo),
Ivan Lovrenovic (Sarajevo), Mile Babic (Sarajevo),
Nirman Moranjak Bamburac (Sarajevo), Senadin Musabegovic (Sarajevo),
Dubravko Lovrenovic (Sarajevo), Boris Buden (Zagreb London),
Olga Manojlovic (Beograd), Enver Kazaz (Sarajevo), Ivan Vukoja (Mostar).

7.00 - 8.30 pm

FILM / VIDEO SCREENINGS

"Pines and Firs", Sanja Ivekovic (Zagreb), 2003
"On Love, Afterwards", Milica Tomic (Belgrade), 2003

december 1st-31st, 2004,

By the commission's decision: everyone to one's own (II)

Art interventions in public space obala maka dizdara, park in front of the presidentship (tito street) and liberation square

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