aneta stojnic cv oct 2016
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Curriculum Vitae, 20th October, 2016
Aneta Stojnic
Theoretician, Artist and Curator, based in Belgrade and Vienna
Contact: FMK Faculty of Media and Communications
Department of Humanities and Theory of Arts and Media
Karađorđeva 65, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +381 63 7795768 (Sebia)
+43 680 2429186 (Austria)
Web: https://anetastojnic.wordpress.com
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2015 — present, Assistant professor at Faculty of Media and Communications (Singidunum University, Belgrade) Department for Humanities and Theory of Art
2015 Postdoc fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, PCAP Post-conceptual art practices study program
2013-14 Postdoc fellow at Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Research centre S:PAM (studies in Performing Arts and Media)
2013 — present, editorial board member in A+M Journal for Art and Media Studies
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PUBLICATIONS in English
Articles in Journals:
“Only Cyborgs and Cockroaches” under review in Performance Research issue Vol. 22:3, Turning Animal, 2017
“Denkmal oder Mahnmal? Historization and its consequences. Debating the political articulation of a traumatic past” in Documenta: tijdschrift voor theater, jaargang XXXIV, #1, 2016: 148-168
“Digital anthropomorphism: Performers avatars and chat-bots” in Performance Research issue Vol. 20, No. 2 On Anthropomorphism, 2015: 71-78
“The Problem of the Political in Cyberspace” in A+M, Journal for Art and Media Studies, No.7 (2015): 103-111
“Transfeminists and transmigrants perspectives in Europe” (with Marina Gržinić) in n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal, Volume 34, July 2014: 16-27
“Cyborgs From Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First?” in IDENTITIES. Journal for Gender, Politics and Culture, Vol.10 No 1, Summer/Winter 2013: 49-54
Book chapters:
“(Un)Dead and (Un)Buried: From Antigone to Chelsea Manning” in Eds. Katharina Pewny, Luk Van den Dries, Charlotte Gruber, Simon Leenknegt, Occupy Antigone: Tradition, Transition and Transformation in Performance, Tübingen: Modernes Theater, 2016: 165-176
“What archives?” in Eds. Joanna Krakowska and Daria Odija, Platform. East European Performing Arts Companion, Lubin: Adam Mickiewicz Institute/Center for Culture Lubin/ Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016: 394-405
„Live or Living Dead: (Un)Setting the Stage for the Hologram Performer“, in Eds. Žarko Cvejić, Andrija Filipović, Ana Petrov, The Crisis in the Humanities: Transdisciplinary Solutions, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016:174–182
“A Discussion of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Post-dramatic Theatre” in Eds. Miško Šuvakovic, Žarko Cvejić and Andrija Filipović, European Theories in Former Yugoslavia: Trans-theory Regulations between Global and Local Discourses, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015: 173 -178
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“From Feminism to Transfeminism: from Sexually Queer to Politically Queer”, (with Marina Gržinić) in ed. Katarzyna Kosmala, Sexing the Border: Gender Art and New Media in central and Eastern Europe,, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014: 231-252
“Decoloniality of New Media Technology” in Utopia of Alliances, Conditions of Impossibilities and the Vocabulary of Decoloniality, Ed. Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Genealogies, Wien: Locker, 2013: 260-266
“De/Re/Construction of memories of Yugoslavia: The Draft for the Exhibition”, in ed. Snežana Ćuruvija, De/Re/Construction: time, space memories, Pančevo Cultural Centre, 15th Biennale of Art, 2012: 39-44
Edited Publications:
"This Body is in Danger! Shift-shaping CorpoRealities in Contemporary Performing Arts”, Eds. Aneta Stojnić, Christel Stalpaert and Marina Gržinić, Ghent: Academia Press (forthcoming)
“Image, Racialization, History”, Eds. Miško Šuvaković, Aneta Stojnić and Marina Gržinić (under review)
Focus issue editor, AM Journal for Art and Media Studies, No.8: Postfeminism, Transfemnism and Feminist Subjectivities beyond Identity Politics, October 2015
Guest co-editor (with Nikola Dedic), focus issue: “Serbian art in 2000s – Interviews”, Art Margins Online, September 2012
Guest editor of “New Moment Magazine” no. 32, special edition on contemporary art and design in Balkans, 2008
Book reviews:
“Aldo Milohnic: ‘Theory of Contemporary Theatre and Performance’ (book review)” in A+M, Journal for Art and Media Studies, no.6 (2014)
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PUBLICATION in French
“TRANSFORMATIONS et défis dans les BALKANS” with Marina Gržinić (Transformations and Challenges in Balkans) in Théâtre/Public, No. 222, La Grece Et Les Balkans: Scenes En Transition Coordonne, (October 2016): 7-13
PUBLICATIONS in Serbian
Monographs:
“Žak Lakan” (Jacques Lacan), Orion Art, Belgrade, 2016 (in print)
“Teorija izvođenja u digitalnoj umetnosti: Ka novom političkom performansu” (Performance Theory in Digital Art: Towards a New Political Performance), Orion Art and FMK, Belgrade, 2015
Articles in Journals:
“Ima li posthumanog performera? Transgresije i subverzije tela u sajberproetoru” (Is there a Posthuman Performer? Transgressions and Subversions of Body in Cyberspace”) in Kultura – Journal for Theory and Sociology of Culture and Cultural Policy, No. 152, Autumn 2016
“Dekolonijalni obrt i politike epistemičkog razdvajanja” (Decolonial Turn and politics of epistemic delinking) in Srpska politička misao, No. 3, 2016.
“Uloga tehnologije u dekolonizaciji znanja” (The Role of Technology in (de)Colonisation of Knowledge) in AM, Journal for Art and Media Studies, No.1, (2011)
“Ideološki rad melodramskog zapleta u filmovima o Holokaustu” (Ideological Work of Melodramatic Plot in Movies on Holocaust) in ProFemina, Journal for Women’s Literature and Culture, no. 54, (2011):13-20
Novomedijska slika i Izvođačke umetnosti: Modovi interakcije” (“New Media Image and Performing Arts: Modes of Interaction”) in Kultura – Journal for Theory and Sociology of Culture and Cultural Policy, no.127 (June 2010): 287-304
Book chapters:
“Sajber tenologija između kritike i apologije kapitalizma” (Cyber Technologies Between Critique and Apologie of Capitalism) in Eds. Irfan Hošić, Amir Husak, Kriza, umjetnost, akcija (Critis, Art, Action), City Gallery Bihać/University in Bihać, 2016: 140-151
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“Lumino kinetika u svetlu prostora i vremena” (Lumino – Kinetics through Time and Space) in Radikalne Abstrakcije (Radical Abstractions), Eds. Miško Šuvaković, Nikola Dedić and Ješa Denegri. Beograd: Službeni Glasnik, 2013: 53-64
Book Reviews:
“’Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji – XX vek’ (recenzija knjige)” in AM, Journal for Art and Media Studies, no.1, 2012: 122-126
Other Commissioned Writings (selection):
“Doplgenger: Neimenovani fragmenti” (Doplgenger: Fragments Untitled) text in exhibition catalogue “Fragments Untitled” by artist duo Dobpgenger, Dom omladine, Belgrade: 2014
“Umetnost kao akcija u javnom prostoru / Art as Action in Public Space” text in exhibition catalogue “Danilo Prnjat – Art as Action in Public Space” Kontekst gallery, Belgrade: 2009
“Izvođenje, prisustvo i elektornska reprodukcija (Performance, Presence and Electronic Reproduction) text in festival catalogue “nama.TRE.ba” Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2009
“Iza enformela" (Behind Informal) text in exhibition catalogue “Igor Bošnjak – Painting of Internal Necessity”, Academy of Arts, Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2008
“Wild Beauty Models — nova kolekcija brkova za žene” (Wild Beauty Models — new collection of mustaches for women) text in exhibition catalogue “Danilo Prnjat — Wild Beauty” Most Gallery, Podgorica, Montenegro: 2008
Translations from English to Serbian:
“Politika i izvođačke umetnosti” collection of essays by Janelle Reinelt, eds. Ivana Vujić and Milija Gluhović, University of Arts in Belgrade, 2012 (co-translated several essays in the collection)
“Teorija kao umetnička praksa” by Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield in A+M, Journal for Art and Media Studies, no.1, 2011 (translation of two parts essay “Theory as Art Practice. Notes for discipline” and “Outnotes for Indiscipline” originally published in Art&Research, vol 2 no.2 and vol 3 no.1)
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
“Liminal Spaces and Shifting Realities in Contemporary Performance: Body, Politics, Technologies” postdoc research project at the Academy of fine arts Vienna IBK, post-doc research project, 2015
“Body and it’s Double” post-doc research project at Gent University Research center S:PAM, 2013/14
Collaboration in research group PEPPER: Performance, Philosophy, Ethics and Politics, Gent University Research center S:PAM, 2014
“Politics of Body in 21st Century”, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Ernst-Mach scholarship, 2013
“Performing in cyberspace: STRL Reloaded” Tanzquartier Vienna, artistic research residency, 2011
“Post conceptual art practices and performance politics” KulturKontakt Vienna, writers residency (part of PhD research), 2012
ENPARTS Open Campus, colaborative artistic research project, Dansens Hus Stockholm (2011)
“What Archives? In Search of a history of Theatre and Performing Arts in Serbia”, East European Performing Arts Dictionary (EEPAP), research on the performance and theatre archives (2013)
“Platfoma. colboratove artistic research project on self-education and colaboraiton processes in art and activism” LeIpzig 2011, 2015
“Art and/as politics” research group within Deschoolong classroom project, TkH – Walking Theory, 2010/11
CTLS Center for Theatre and Laboratory Studies – research visit (consulting the archives), Holstebro, Denmark, 2006
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, Department of humanities and theory of art (2015 — present):
- PhD level courses: Performance studies; Decolonial theories of art and culture; Art and Technology; Critical Turn in Arts; Media and post-media research;
- MA level courses: Theory of Experimental Music Theatre and Performance in 20th and 21st century; History of Experimental Music, Theatre and Performance; Performance and politics;
- BA level course: Performance Studies and Contemporary Culture;
- Workshop seminar: Art on Ignorance (based on Ignorant Schoolmaster).
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, PCAP study program (2013 and 2015):
- Workshop seminar, BA and MA level: P.S. to Societies of Control
- Workshop seminar BA and MA level: Conceptual Art and Techno-Bodies: Cyborg and Queer in the New Technology Environment
Ghent University, research center S:PAM (2013-14):
- Modes of Interaction Between Performance and New Media Technology; (guest lecture series for MA students within the course of Visual Strategies led by Prof. Dr Christel Stalpaert)
- co-teaching the PhD specialist course “Art and Ethics: Shifts from Biopolitics to Necropolitics” with a guest expert Prof. Dr Marina Grzinic
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EDUCATION
2013 PhD in Theory of Arts and Media, Interdisciplinary studies, University of Arts in Belgrade, thesis title: “Theory of Performance in Digital Art: Towards a New Political Performance” under supervision of Prof.dr. Miško Šuvaković and Prof.dr. Marina Gržinić
2010, 2012 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Conceptual Art Department – study visits as a part of PhD research
2009 MA in Theory of Arts and Media, Interdisciplinary studies, Belgrade University of Arts, thesis title: “Performing Arts Between Live Presence and Electronic Representation”
2006 UR Hamlet – seminar with Eugenio Barba, Odin Theatre and international ensemble, Ravenna – Holstebro – Helsingor
2005 ISTA International School of Theatre Anthropology, under supervision of Eugenio Baraba, hosted by Gortowski Center, Wroclaw
2004 BA in Theatre Directing and Acting, Academy of Arts, Belgrade
SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
Scholarship of the Stipendienstifung der Republik Österrich for the postdoctoral research at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2015
BASILEUS scholarship for postdoctoral research at Ghent University research center S:PAM — Studies in Performing Arts Media, 2013/14
Ernst-Mach Scholarship for PhD research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 2013
KulturKontkt Austria – writer in residency in Vienna, June 2012
(OEAD) Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research scholarship for one month study visit to Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, March 2012
ENPARTS (European Network of Performing Arts) Open Campus, residency at Dansens Hus Sotckholm, funded by Vennice BIennale, June, August 2011
Platforma 11 residency in Leipzig, funded by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, September 2011
Research residency at Tanzquartier Wien, in collaboration with KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, March-May 2011
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation grant for attending Conference on Art and Political Education as a guest speaker in Working in Process workshop, Berlin, September 2011
(OEAD) Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research scholarship for one month study visit to Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, June 2010
UEPS award for the “Publication of the Year” for editing the “New Moment Magazine”, Belgrade, 2008
CONFERENCES
“Liminal Bodies and Radical Subjectivities” at IFTR conference: Presenting the Theatrical Past. Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices, Stockholm 13-17 June. 2016
“Politics of image in the video films by Gržinić & Šmid” at international conference Image, Racialization, History, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, 25-16. September, 2015
“Genealogy of Amnesia” (coauthor wi th Mar ina Grž in ić ) at in ternat ional symposium Fragments of Empire, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, IKL, 24-25. Jun, 2015
”Digital Anthropomorphism Performers Avatars, Chat-bots, and Holograms” at conference Bodies on stage: Acting confronting technologies, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, 3-5. Jun, 2015
“Live or a Living Dead: Hologram Performers, Capitalism and Crises of Body” at conference Beyond the Crisis in the Humanities. Transdisciplinary Transformations of Contemporary Discourses on Art and Culture, FMK, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum Univerzitet, Beograd, 24-25. April 2015
”Race, class and gender in the post-human era. Where do we stand from a decolonial perspective?” (coauthor with Marina Gržinić) at conference Does it Matter? Composite Bodies and Posthuman Prototypes in Contemporary Performing Arts, Ghent University Belgium, 17-19. March 2015
“Transfeminism and Transmigration: Decolonial Perspectives” at international conference Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches, Institute of Sociology Justus-Liebig Univesity, Gissen, November 2014
“Cyborgs and Other Others” at ITFR World Congress:Theatre and Stratification, The University of Warwick, August 2014
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“Re-Visiting Retroavntgarde” at PSi#20 Performance Studies international conference “Avant-Garde, Tradition, Community”, Shanghai Theater Academy, July, 2014
“Settings the stage for posthuman performer” at international conference Theatre, Performance, Philosophy: Crossings and Transfers in Anglo-American Thought, Paris University – Sorbonne, June, 2014
“(Un)Dead and (Un)Buried: From Antigone to Bradley Manning” at international conference
Occupy Antigone: Tradition, Transition and Transformation in Performance, Gehnt University, March 2014
“Interrelations between Body and Technology” FACELESS Symposium at Quartier21 MQ, during VIENNA ART WEEK, November, 2013
“New Media Technology: Questions of Politics and Performativity” at Psi #17 Conference Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience, Utrecht, Jun, 2011
“Video Killed the Theatre Star” at Contemporary Theory of Art Symposium, Faculty of Philosophy – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November, 2011
INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTARIES
“LIMINAL BODIES, (DIS)EMBODIED SUBJECTIVITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CONTROL” Guest lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2016
Comments on Jasmina Tešanović and Bruce Sterling’s “In Bed With The Exotic Enemy LECTURE, PERFORMANCE, CONFESSION”, Wienwoche festival, Vienna 2016
“Mira-study for a portrait” panel discussion in the framework of Jelena Jureša’s exhibition at MoCAB/ Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, 2016
“Tracing Information Society” panel discussion in the framework of the exhibition SOCIAL GLITCH, project by the Working Group Technopolitics, Kunstraum NIEDEROESTERREICH, Vienna, 2015
“Perspectives of Home” panel discussion after performance-presentation by Helene Kazan at KEX Studio, WUK, Vienna, 2015
“Transdisciplinarity of Performance Studies: is Performance a General Paradigm of Contemporary World?”, lecture at the House of Culture, Belgrade, 2015
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„Denkmal oder Mahnmal? Historicization and consequences – debating political articulation of traumatic past”, discussion with Jelena Juresa at Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, 2015
“Archival Twitch” panel discussion in the framework of Doplgenger’s exhibition Fragments Untitled, at DOB, Belgrade, 2014
“‘Balkans’ and ‘Post-War’ – Artistic Empowerment Beyond those labels”, panel discussion at Depot in collaboration with Open Systems, Vienna, 2013
“Hard Candies and Breadcrumbs of Performance Archives”, panel discussion at CDU Center For Drama Art, Zagreb, 2013
“Video Killed the Theater Star”, lecture at Student’s Culture Centre Belgrade, 2012
“New Media Image and Performing Arts”, lecture at Student’s Culture Centre Belgrade, 2011
“Digital Performative”, lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2011
“Getting the Public”, panel discussion at Platforma11, Leipzig, 2011
“Performance (&) Theory”, artist talk at the Academy of Fine arts Vienna, 2010
“Performance, presence and Electronic Representation” lecture at namaTRE.ba 3 Video Art Festival Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009
“Media Manipulation as Artistic Method” panel discussion at the 49th October Salon, Belgrade, 2008
CURATORIAL PROJECTS (selection)
The Art of Ignorance, MAIZ, Linz 2015
EUROPE after the Cold War: Marina Grzinic&Aina Smid, FMK, Belgrade 2015
Open Systems 1-01-04/13 (co-curated with Walter Seidl, Işın Önol, Federica Bueti and Nikola Dedic) at Open Space/Open Systems & GPL contemporary, Vienna, January 2014
ARTSLAB issue3,(co-curated with Nikola Dedic) at Open Systems Vienna, 2013
15th Biennial of Arts in Pančevo, De/Re/Construction: time, space memories, (co-curated with Nikola Dedić), 2012
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ARTISTIC PROJECTS (selection)
Performance and Theatre:
“RADICAL POSITIONING OF THE SUBJECT IN THE ERA OF SOCIETY OF CONTROL” —Lecture performance with Marina Gržinić, AMRO Festival Art Meets Radical Openness, Linz, 2016
“Cyborgs and Other Others” — lecture performance, CZKD Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, 2016
“Performance(and)lecture: Subjectivity in Cyber Space, Liminal Spaces and Post-Human Bodies” lecture performance/intervention within project “Le Puzzle n’est pas un Jeu Solitaire [seminar/performance/diner]” by Adva Zakai and Åbäke at Les Laboratoires D’Aubervilliers, 2014
“I Sing the Body Electric” — author and performer, Kondenz Festival Belgrade, 2012
“Sex on Trains and Rights of Lefthanders: Reloaded” — author and performer, Tanzquartier Wien, 2011
“Save the Last Dance” — performer and co-author with Pontus Pettersson and Tom Engels, within ENPARTS Open Door, Dansens Hus, Stockholm, 2011
“This is so Political” — performer and co-author with Isidora Ilic, Platforma 11, Leipzig, 2011
“Sex on Trains and Rights of Lefthanders” — author and performer, MKM Magacin u Kraljevića Marka, culture center, Belgrade, 2011
“The Dessert is Present” — author and performer, intervention/guerrilla performance at Park Avenue Whiter, New York, 2011
“Balkan Desire” — durational performance, author and performer, Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skoplje, 2009
“On Presence: Performance, Body, Screen” — lecture performance, author and performer, namaTRE.ba festival, Trebinje, 2009
“Rashomon — Movie Theater” (based on R. Akutagawa) director and set designer, BITEF Theatre, Belgrade, 2007
Actress in “Ur Hamlet” directed by Eugenio Barba, Odin Teatret, 2006
“Phaedra’s Love” (Sarah Kane) — director, theatre Atelje 212, Belgrade, 2004
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“The Bear” (A.P. Chekhov) — director, DADOV theatre, Belgrade 2003
“Shakespeare Files” — director, Ohrid summer festival, 2002
Installation and Video:
“All world is readymade. All politics is artificial.— Notes, thoughts, clips and tips” installation created with Art and/as Politics Group, Deschooling Classroom, MKM, Belgrade, 2012
“All world is readymade. All politics is artificial.— Notes, thoughts, clips and tips” art-book section created with Art and/as Politics Group for TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory No.19, 2011
Performer in “How Far Can We Talk?” video performance by Martina Rusham and Vlado G. Repnik, Wiener Festwochen, Tanzquartier Wien Studios, 2011
Performer in “The Eye is Not the Camera” three channel video installation by Erica Tasini, ENPARTS Open Door, Dansens Hus Stockholm, 2011
“Deschooling Video Classroom” — collaborative research artistic project, concept: Marta Popivoda, co-authors: Marta Popivoda, Aneta Stojnić, K. Petrović, D. Zarevska, M. Cvetković, M. Marković, Dopelganger, N. Janković — TkH-center for Performing Arts Theory and Practice, following program of 51st October Salon, Belgrade, 2010
“Busyness Turned it into a Commodity” commissioned video art for DisArter festival, Belgrade, 2010
“Without borders? Some Critical Reflections on European and Global Border Conditions” – installation, collaborative project, concept: Kontekst Belgrade and h.arta group from Timisoara, Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, 2009
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND NETWORKS
PSi – Performance Studies international
IFTR-International Federation for Theatre Research
Performance Philosophy – international research network
UDUS – Serbian Association of Dramatic Artists
Other Scene – Platform of the Belgrade Independent Arts and Culture Scene
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LANGUAGES
Serbian - native
English - excellent, fluent
French - good
German - basic
Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin - excellent (native level)
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