Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Marina Grzinic

www.grzinic-smid.si

Study of philosophy at the University of Ljubljana | Ph.D. with a dissertation on the "Philosophical Aspects of Virtual Reality and the Change of Spatial and Temporal Paradigms in the 1990s" | Marina Grzinic lives in Ljubljana.

Since 1982, she has worked as a video artist in collaboration with Aina Smid | Numerous exhibitions and festival participations, including: After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm | Positionen, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna | 100 Years of Lacan, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna | Europe, Europe, 100 Years of Avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna | Numerous international awards for video art, including ZKM Karlsruhe | San Francisco International Film Festival | FIV Buenos Aires and Nuremberg.

1997/98 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research from the Japan Society for the Advancement of Science in Tokyo | 2001 Apex Residency Program, New York | International lecture and teaching activities at Duke University, USA; UCLA, Los Angeles, USA; San Francisco College of Art, USA; IMI, Osaka, Japan; Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany.

Current research projects include: The virtual and aesthetic constitution of the (post)modern subject and its political-philosophical and epistemological implications; Theory of virtuality and cyber-space; Philosophy and politics in the postmodern era.

Monographs:

Gržinić, Marina; Tatlić, Šefik (2014): Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life, Lanham
Gržinić, Marina (2008): Re-politicizing art, theory, representation and new media technology, Vienna
Gržinić, Marina (2005): Une fiction reconstruite: Europe de l'Est, post-socialisme et rétro-avant-garde, Paris/Budapest/Torino
Gržinić, Marina (2004): Situated contemporary art practices: art, theory and activism from (the east of) Europe, Ljubljana/Frankfurt am Main

Published books and anthologies:

Gržinić, Marina; Pristovšek, Jovita (eds.) (2023): Political Choreographies, Decolonial Theories, Trans Bodies, Newcastle upon Tyne
Gržinić, Marina; Pristovšek, Jovita (eds.) (2022): Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities: For Radical Change, Newcastle upon Tyne
Gržinić, Marina; Šefik Tatlić (eds.); in collaboration with: Zabret, Valerija; Pristovšek, Jovita; Kancler, Tjaša; Uitz, Sophie (2020): Dialogues for the Future: Countering the Genealogy of Amnesia, Belgrade/Vienna
Gržinić, Marina; Pristovšek, Jovita; Uitz, Sophie (eds.) (2020): Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism: Rethinking the Past for New Conviviality, Newcastle upon Tyne
Gržinić, Marina (ed.) (2018): Border Thinking. Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence, Vienna/Berlin
Gržinić, Marina; Stojnić, Aneta (eds.) (2018): Shifting corporealities in contemporary performance: danger, im/mobility and politics, Cham
Gržinić, Marina; Stojnić, Aneta; Šuvaković, Miško (eds.) (2017): Regimes of invisibility in contemporary art, theory and culture: image, racialization, history, Cham

Contributions to anthologies:

Gržinić, Marina; Pristovšek, Jovita (2020). “Race and its far-reaching contemporary ontological and epistemological implications” in: Rosen, Matt (ed.); Diseases of the head: essays on the horrors of speculative philosophy, Earth, Milky Way, pp. 197-235.
Gržinić, Marina (2018). “What is the aesthetics of necropolitics?” in: Lushetich, Natasha (ed.); The aesthetics of necropolitic, London/New York, pp. 17-36.
Gržinić, Marina (2017). “How institutions think?: institutions do not think, they simply act!” in: OʼNeill, Paul; Steeds, Lucy; Wilson, Mick (eds.); How institutions think: between contemporary art and curatorial discourse, London, pp. 145-155.
Gržinić, Marina (2017). “Racialized bodies and the digital (financial) mode of production” in: Gržinić, Marina; Stojnić, Aneta; Šuvaković, Miško (eds.); Regimes of invisibility in contemporary art, theory and culture: image, racialization, history, Cham, pp. 13-28. 

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