Ivana Marjanović: QueerBeograd Cabaret. A Shared Space between Queer, Anti-Facism and No Borders Politics
Ivana Marjanović speaks with Mišo Kapetanović about her recently published book on QueerBeograd Cabaret and its political-cultural activism as part of the Academy Library’s event series Wer A… sagt.
The clandestine festival QueerBeograd created spaces of critique and transformation in order to foster a politics of interconnectedness. Ivana Marjanović explores the festival's transnational activist cabaret between 2006 and 2008, which was devised, directed and produced by Jet Moon, a founding member of the QueerBeograd collective. This pioneering study demonstrates how the process of staging QueerBeograd Cabaret created a shared space between queer, anti-fascism and No Borders politics, contributing to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity. The study thus investigates historical genealogies of gender and political difference in the former and post-Yugoslav space, bringing these into relation with global social and art movements.
Ivana Marjanović will talk with Mišo Kapetanović about the QueerBeograd's practice of performance as political organizing and artistic activist practice, beginnings of queer activism in the post-Yugoslav space, and networking with transnational social movements. They will discuss QueerBeograd's cultural activism and its antagonistic relation with the local gender regulative structures, critique of discourses of anti-antifascism, capitalist transition, and the contestation of the EU border regime.
Ivana Marjanović is a curator and author. The focus of her work is on art and cultural production in the contexts of transference of transnational knowledge, migration, the post-Yugoslav space, and gender debates. Marjanović graduated from the University of Belgrade in 2005 with a degree in Art History. In 2017, she completed her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently the director of Kunstraum Innsbruck and is also a member of the editorial team of Migrazine – Online Magazine by Migrant Women for Everyone (migrazine.at).
https://independent.academia.edu/MarjanovicIvana
Mišo Kapetanović is a cultural anthropologist and researcher. His work combines ethnography with critical archival methods and has addressed topics such as post-socialist spatial politics, informal construction, migrant memory and everyday life, and, more recently, historical gender and sexual diversity in the Western Balkans. He earned his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 2021 and has held research and teaching positions in Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, and Austria, including at the University of St. Gallen, the University of Rijeka, and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin. Kapetanović is currently Principal Investigator of the DINARKVIR project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he explores historical gender regimes and queer affects in the region.
https://oeaw.academia.edu/Mi%C5%A1oKapetanovic
Ivana Marjanović, QueerBeograd Cabaret. A Shared Space between Queer, Anti-Facism and No Borders Politics
300 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-3-8376-6994-7, Bielefeld: transcript, 2024
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