partizan★ke art: recalling antifascist spirits

partizan*ke art: recalling antifascist spirits - joint performances and workshop by nataša mackuljak (WienWoche) & elena messner (MUSMIG)

This event combines performative interventions in the space, joint lecture-performances and a workshop that focuses on the performative reading and debating of basic works of women’s anti-fascist resistance fighters during World War II (“partizanke”). We will engage with texts from the female partisan press “Žena danas” and dive into archive materials - film and documents - to start a debate on the importance of recalling partizanke-spirits for todays political engagement.
Nataša Mackuljak(b. in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a performer, multimedia artist, social worker, curator and cultural producer. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with the thesis On Historical Continuities between Anti-Fascist Women’s Action and Feminist Performance Art in the Former Yugoslavia. She studied sciences and technology of multimedia at the University of Social Sciences in Udine and worked in Italy on media projects as radio and TV editor of weekly programmes on radio and TV Rai 3 (2005–2008). For three years (2016/17/18) she co-curated and co-managed the Transcultural Festival for Art and Activism Wienwoche, where she is currently engaged as executive director.

Elena Messner (b. in Klagenfurt/Celovec), is a scientist, lecturer, novelist, theater writer and curator. She is currently a Senior Post-Doc researcher at the University of Vienna, with a project on translations in (post)yugoslav feminist periodicals. She studied Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in Vienna and Aix-en-Provence. Her PhD thesis was on the post-Yugoslav war literature and its reception in the German-speaking cultures. She was teaching at the University in Aix-Marseille and at the University of Klagenfurt since 2014. She is part of the collective MUSMIG-museum of migration. She is curating several exhibitions on partisan art and feminism.

Cooperation with Brotfabrik – Stand 129 am Viktor Adler Markt, 1100 Wien
Language: Englisch, German + if neede Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
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