No War but Class War!, 2009, 6:38 Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid In collaboration with Zvonka Simcic Text by Marina Grzinic Ljubljana/Slovenia No War but Class War! What does it mean to perform class struggle? It means to expose the…
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No War but Class War! (2009)
Posted in video Tagged with: aesthetics, capitalism, class, colonialism, coloniality, democracy, discrimination, enslavement, Europe, explotation, Mbembe, politics, precarity, racialization, racism, resistance, struggle, technology, terror, violence, war
Dan D (D Day) (1997)
The video is a passionate, in the aesthetic of an experimental film, a radiography of the multi ethnic, racial, and psychological matrix of today’s modern cities. As a voyeur searching for faces, gestures, bodies, traumas, the work shows how bodies…
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Moscow Portraits (1990)
Moscow Portraits is a video project that reconstructs the work and life of the great Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935), a pioneering avant-garde artist and theorist, known as the founder of Suprematism, a revolutionary movement focused on pure geometric abstraction. Malevich was…
Posted in video Tagged with: 1989, aesthetics, animation, avant-garde, collaborative, computer-graphics, history, homage, installation, international, Malevich, Mondrian, Moscow, performance, portraits, simulation, Soviet-Union, suprematism
Os življenja (Axis of Life) (1987)
— The story of the video Axis of Life is that of two women remembering their “common” husband – a man who is alleged to have killed both of them, whereas in fact they are alive and they have…
Doma (At Home) (1986)
– The story of the film At Home takes place in the early 1950s. This is the story of a man and his part in the 2nd World War, during which he is forced to murder his wife. After the…
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Ikone glamurja, odmevi smrti (Icons of Glamour, Echoes of Death) (1982)
The video is about the phantasmatic world of a woman stereotype portrayed as a model (Marina Grzinic)/apparently a transvestite (who switches between languages between sexes, being she and then suddenly he), and her friend – a hermaphrodite (Aina Smid).…
Posted in video Tagged with: aesthetics, avant-garde, drag-practices, female-pleasure, feminism, gender, hermaphrodite, lesbians, masturbation, performances, phantasmatic, pornography, sadomasochism, sexuality, socialism, stereotype, transvestite, women
