Art and Activism in YU and Ex-YU 1968–2008 /Misko Suvakovic
Art and Activism in YU and Ex-YU 1968–2008 /MISKO SUVAKOVIC/ The methods of political, cultural and art activism1 take completely different forms, from individual actions, to different practices of self-organizing, to in- formal non-institutional or formally institutionalized activities. Types of ac- tivism range from protest by way of writing public messages to newspapers, electronic media, institutions or politicians, to cultural campaigns, to political, social, economic, or rather gender, racial, class actions in public marches, 1 STEVEN M. BUECHLE R, SOCIAL MOVE M ENT S IN ADVANCED CAPITALI sm : THE POLITICAL ECONO M Y AND CULTURAL CON S TRUCTION OF SOCIAL ACTIVI sm , OXF O RD UNIVER S ITY PRE ss , OXF O RD , 1999; MARINA GRZINIC (ED ), THE REAL , THE DE S PERATE, THE AB S OLUTE – Ess AY S ON ART S Y S TE ms , NARRATIVE S OF POWER, S TRATEGIE S OF I M PLO S ION , PER S PECTIVE S ON DI S A S TER S , OBJECT S A S M ON S TER S AND ACTIVI sm , GALERIJA so D ob NE U M ETN os TI , 2001 “OnE DAY, INSTEAD OF ONE NIGHT,REALITY A BUR SCHECKT OF art & actiVISM reaDer MACHINE-GUN Fire WILL FLASH, IF LIGHT CANNOT COME OTHERWISE”, MILICA TOMIC, 2009, PHOTOGRAPHER: SRDJAN VELJOVIC. DEDICATED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST INITIATIVE - BELGRADE, 6 3. SEPTEMBER, 2009. 7 strikes, protests, or subversive, that is to say, guerilla actions. Activism can manifesto “Revolution is without a project…“, which became the manifesto of be of a left (union activism, socialist activism, communist activism, activism the new left.
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