Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, 2013
Video, 01:02:00.
©Marta Popivoda, TkH (Walking Theory), Belgrade
Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body is a cinematic essay that retells the history of socialist Yugoslavia and its dramatic dismantling from Marta Popivoda’s personal perspective. The film focuses on the mechanisms through which ideology was reflexively materialised in public space through mass performances. Spanning through decades of socialist Yugoslavia and its aftermath, from 1945 to 2000, the film juxtaposes new and old footage of society performing itself through youth work actions, May Day parades and celebrations of Youth Day, as well as the students’ uprising of 1968 or the civic demonstrations of the 1990s in Serbia. Narrated by author’s voice-over, the film creates an account of Yugoslavia’s post-war history through images of collective actions and probes the exhaustion of the idea of collectivity and solidarity in today’s political context.
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> Exhibition: Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.