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Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91

Branislav Jakovljevic
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In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989 was either "official" or "dissident" art; and shows that the break up of Yugoslavia was not a result of "ancient hatreds" among its peoples but instead came from the distortion and defeat of the idea of self-management.

The case studies include mass performances organized during state holidays; proto-performance art, such as the 1954 production of Waiting for Godot in a former concentration camp in Belgrade; student demonstrations in 1968; and body art pieces by Gina Pane, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, and others. Alienation Effects sheds new light on the work of well-known artists and scholars, including early experimental poetry by Slavoj Žižek, as well as performance and conceptual artists that deserve wider, international attention.

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Socialism and Sociality
    • Self-Management
    • Alienation
    • Performance
  • One. Bodywriting
    • Performance State
    • Choreography of Labor
    • Et in Illyria Ego  . . .
    • Socialist Baroque
    • Socialist Aestheticism
    • Labor’s Other
  • Two. Syntactical Performances
    • Beyond the Performance Principle
    • Cracked Baroque
    • Performing Self-Management
    • Expanded Media / Constricted Politics
    • The Magician as Surgeon
    • The Surgeon as Stitcher
    • Alienating the Unalienable
    • 1968/86/89
  • Three. Disalienation Defects
    • A Federation of Interests
    • The Other Line
    • Did Somebody Say Alienation?
    • The Strange
    • Money as the Medium
    • Postconceptualist Politics
    • The Use-Value of Postmodernism
    • The Management of the Self
  • Afterword: “A” is for . . .
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2016
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-90058-9 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-07314-6 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-05314-8 (paper)
Series
  • Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Subject
  • Art:Art History
  • History:European History
  • Theater and Performance
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