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Research paper thumbnail of My Private Bio-Politics A Performance on a Paper Floor

Performance Research, 2008

... And I was thinking that painting is very difficult because you need to train. Then the music,... more ... And I was thinking that painting is very difficult because you need to train. Then the music, for me was … I need to learn solfeggio – you know it's very difficult. ... It was 19 June 2005, 9:34 am when I sent this email to Bojana Cvejić, a theorist from Belgrade and Brussels. ...

Conferences by Sasa Asentic

Research paper thumbnail of Research Festival and Exhibition "Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation," Tanzhaus Zürich, Aargauer Kunsthaus, ADC Geneva, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Dampfzentrale Bern, and HKB Bern, September 14-29, 2024

Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, 2024

This is a first glimpse into the schedule for our long-awaited research festival and exhibition, ... more This is a first glimpse into the schedule for our long-awaited research festival and exhibition, "Conserving Performance: Performing Conservation," which is currently in its final planning phase. The events, which also mark the conclusion of our research project, will take place in venues across Switzerland from September 14 to September 29, 2024. Please save the dates and join us this fall in Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Aarau, and Bern!

Can performance be conserved, and if so, how? And what does it mean to conserve performance? Examining performance through the lens of conservation, this research festival and exhibition celebrates performance in its social, material and epistemic networks by bringing together practitioners of performance, dance, museums and conservation with researchers across disciplines.

Edited Volume by Sasa Asentic

Research paper thumbnail of The Resilience of History: The Yugoslav Wars through Art. Eds. Blaž Kavšek and Gregor Moder. Ljubljana: Maska.

The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on ... more The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on artistic, and especially theatrical, responses to them. The authors consider the role of art in both the acute processing and the long-term formation of political and personal memory of the trauma of war and exile. Although the primary subject of the monograph is the relationship between art and trauma on the backdrop of Yugoslav wars, it also features a special section dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza.

Books by Sasa Asentic

Research paper thumbnail of The Resilience of History. The Yugoslav Wars through Art

The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on ... more The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on artistic, and especially theatrical, responses to them. The authors consider the role of art in both the acute processing and the long-term formation of political and personal memory of the trauma of war and exile. Although the primary subject of the monograph is the relationship between art and trauma on the backdrop of Yugoslav wars, it also features a special section dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza.

Research paper thumbnail of My Private Bio-Politics A Performance on a Paper Floor

Performance Research, 2008

... And I was thinking that painting is very difficult because you need to train. Then the music,... more ... And I was thinking that painting is very difficult because you need to train. Then the music, for me was … I need to learn solfeggio – you know it's very difficult. ... It was 19 June 2005, 9:34 am when I sent this email to Bojana Cvejić, a theorist from Belgrade and Brussels. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Research Festival and Exhibition "Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation," Tanzhaus Zürich, Aargauer Kunsthaus, ADC Geneva, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Dampfzentrale Bern, and HKB Bern, September 14-29, 2024

Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, 2024

This is a first glimpse into the schedule for our long-awaited research festival and exhibition, ... more This is a first glimpse into the schedule for our long-awaited research festival and exhibition, "Conserving Performance: Performing Conservation," which is currently in its final planning phase. The events, which also mark the conclusion of our research project, will take place in venues across Switzerland from September 14 to September 29, 2024. Please save the dates and join us this fall in Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Aarau, and Bern!

Can performance be conserved, and if so, how? And what does it mean to conserve performance? Examining performance through the lens of conservation, this research festival and exhibition celebrates performance in its social, material and epistemic networks by bringing together practitioners of performance, dance, museums and conservation with researchers across disciplines.

Research paper thumbnail of The Resilience of History: The Yugoslav Wars through Art. Eds. Blaž Kavšek and Gregor Moder. Ljubljana: Maska.

The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on ... more The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on artistic, and especially theatrical, responses to them. The authors consider the role of art in both the acute processing and the long-term formation of political and personal memory of the trauma of war and exile. Although the primary subject of the monograph is the relationship between art and trauma on the backdrop of Yugoslav wars, it also features a special section dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza.

Research paper thumbnail of The Resilience of History. The Yugoslav Wars through Art

The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on ... more The volume deals with the traumatic experiences of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and focuses on artistic, and especially theatrical, responses to them. The authors consider the role of art in both the acute processing and the long-term formation of political and personal memory of the trauma of war and exile. Although the primary subject of the monograph is the relationship between art and trauma on the backdrop of Yugoslav wars, it also features a special section dedicated to the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza.

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