Lessons on Defense
Cultural Activities of the People's Liberation Movement
1st Edition
Published in 2020
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144 pages
978-3-9502583-6-3 (ISBN)
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The book Lessons on Defense is a translation of two texts that were created as part of a research project on culture in the People's Liberation Movement (NOP) in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. KURS (Mirjana Radovanovic and Milos Miletic) started researching this topic in 2014 as part of the Politicization of Friendship (Politizacija prijateljstva) exhibition when creating the mural Lessons on Defense, which examined the ties between prominent cultural workers before and during the Second World War. While preparing for this piece, a number of new topics and additional questions arose, leading them to conduct research on culture within the People's Liberation Movement during 2016 and 2017, with the support of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Office for Southeast Europe. During the two-year project, Mirjana Radovanovic and Milos Miletic visited archives and museums in Jajce, Sarajevo, Uzice and Belgrade, released two publications and organized the conference How to Revolutionize Art (Kako stvarati umetnost revolucionarno?), where we presented studies by Vida Knezevic, BLOK Collective (Ivana Hanacek, Ana Kutlesa, Vesna Vukovic), Miklavz Komelj, and Gal Kirn.
The subject of this book is culture in the People's Liberation Movement, with a particular focus on events during the establishment of the liberated territories, where a large group of artists was based and, consequently, cultural production intensified. The book contains translations of two texts: "Toward an Analysis of the Cultural Activities of the People's Liberation Movement" and "Culture of the NOP: The People's Culture / Revolutionary Culture / State-Building Culture". The English translation and adaptation for an international audience was undertaken as part of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2019-20 at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck.
The subject of this book is culture in the People's Liberation Movement, with a particular focus on events during the establishment of the liberated territories, where a large group of artists was based and, consequently, cultural production intensified. The book contains translations of two texts: "Toward an Analysis of the Cultural Activities of the People's Liberation Movement" and "Culture of the NOP: The People's Culture / Revolutionary Culture / State-Building Culture". The English translation and adaptation for an international audience was undertaken as part of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2019-20 at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck.
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Mirjana RADOVANOVIC and Milos MILETIC jointly practice visual art and research as KURS. In their work they explore how artistic practice can contribute to - and become an integral part of - various social movements. They often use archival material as a starting point, in combination with revolutionary poetry and prose and the visual language of progressive movements from the past. Most often they produce murals, illustrations and various printed materials including newspapers, posters, graphics. They are guided by the idea that the content they produce should be didactic and accessible to the wider public.
Mirjana RADOVANOVIC and Milos MILETIC jointly practice visual art and research as KURS. In their work they explore how artistic practice can contribute to - and become an integral part of - various social movements. They often use archival material as a starting point, in combination with revolutionary poetry and prose and the visual language of progressive movements from the past. Most often they produce murals, illustrations and various printed materials including newspapers, posters, graphics. They are guided by the idea that the content they produce should be didactic and accessible to the wider public.
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Andrei SICLODI (*1972 in Bucharest) is a curator, writer, editor and cultural worker based in Innsbruck. He is director of Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck and founding director of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory which takes place there. He is also editor of the publication series "BÜCHS'N'BOOKS - Art and Knowledge Production in Context" and producer of the monthly radio broadcast "Büchs'n'Radio" on Radio Freirad.