The video is a punctuated string of visuals and documents by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid ordered to better understand the speculative disaster by financial capital in the present. The paths are two, one is historical and the other lies in the possibility for analyzing contemporary forms of racism and processes of racializations that are — which are within Europe and the rest of the world — hidden behind the financial capital disaster crisis…
Tag: history
Into the Now. Performance on theory, politics and history (2017)
Posted in news, video Tagged with: capitalism, coloniality, crisis, history, performativity, post-socialism, racialization, socialism
Migration, Sex, History: Africa/Europe (2014)
Departing from a tradition in politically engaged art experimental projects, we want to make a film to reflect on Europe and its borders, elaborating different conditions for living and acting. This is coming as an imperative. It is a question of establishing new possibilities for forming a different, but counter, almost bastard, dissident history of Europe, better to say of EU, that is, of migration, empowerment and reflection…
Obsedenost (Obsession) (2008)
– The video OBSESSION reflects on emancipatory politics and the possibility of a production of radical knowledge that opposes the new and old colonial context of capitalism. The video is based on knowledge and resistance developed from thoughts and ideas…
Posted in video Tagged with: anti-Semitism, Badiou, capitalism, critique, decoloniality, Eastern-Europe, emancipative, Europe, experimental, genealogy, history, knowledge, Mignolo, obsession, politics, radical, signifier, Tatlic, vocabularies, Vujanovic
Vzhodna hiša (The Eastern House) (2003)
– The Eastern house is a video that re-reads some key names and some key sequences from film history: Antonioni (Blow-up), Coppola (Apocalypse Now), Don Siegel. It also re-articulates the body and conceptual happenings performed in the Eastern European context.…
Posted in video Tagged with: actions, Antonioni, articles, body, capitalism, cloning, Coppola, cyberfeminst, cyberworld, Eastern-Europe, empathy, ethics, feminism, film, happenings, history, hybrid, identity, Iraq, Paripovic, political, sex, Siegel, technology, war
O muhah s tržnice (On the Flies of the Market Place) (1999)
– On the Flies of the Market Place is a video that deals with the idea of the European space, divided, sacrificed. In an exemplary, visually constructed surrealistic world of facts and emotions, using documents from books and magazines, the…
Posted in video Tagged with: arts, atrocities, divided, East, emotions, Europe, facts, history, indivisible, philosophy, remainder, rereading, sacrificed, space, surrealistic, symptom, West
LUNA PARK (1997)
LUNA PARK was a video interactive project, which played almost literally on the card of communication/dis-communication. Today we have to have digitized/numbered cards to live properly, to go to the bank, or to enter a hotel room. Although instead of…
Posted in video Tagged with: communication, discommunication, error, globalisation, history, intercommunication, interface, intimate, love, machine, re-memorize, replay, sex, socialism, space, war, Yugoslavia
Troubles with Sex, Theory and History (1997)
“The work consists of the video, film, and theoretical work by Grzinic & Smid (in the period between 1982 and 1997), and is now classified on four levels of values ranging from – – to -+, and from +- to…
Posted in video Tagged with: chance, contingency, destiny, function, gambler, history, interactions, intimacy, meaning, nonsense, prejudices, redundancy, stereotypes, user, values, void
