POSTPONED: Bojana Videkanic | Unaligned: The Legacies of Socialist Yugoslavia Talk

Event time: 
Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Loria Center for the History of Art (LORIA), 351 See map
190 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Due to Yale’s Covid-19 Policy, this event is postponed until further notice. You can check the status of Yale’s response anytime at the COVID-19 website being regularly updated by the Office of Public Affairs and Communications.
Join the third talk of the speaker series “Unaligned: The Legacies of Socialist Yugoslavia Speaker Series” by Bojana Videkanic, University of Waterloo, presenting on “Nonaligned Modernism: Yugoslav Art and  Transnational Solidarities.”

Series is sponsored by: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program; the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of the History of Art; School of Architecture; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; and the Department of History
Bojana Videkanic is a performance artist and an art historian/theorist born in Bosnia and Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) now residing in Canada. Her performance art practice mines personal experiences of displacement, movement, and identity as these intersect with larger political, social and cultural questions. Videkanic is an assistant professor in fine arts at the University of Waterloo, and a board member of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival Toronto. Currently she is working on a project involving ideas of body in the age of neurocapitalism. Her academic research examines history of modernist art in the socialist Yugoslavia.

Bojana Videkanic (University of Waterloo)