Volume 8, Issue 1

“Made in Yugoslavia”: Struggles with Self-Management in the New Art Practice, 1965–71
Marko Ilić

In September 1978, Zagreb’s Gallery of Contemporary Art staged the first survey exhibition of conceptual and performance art in Yugoslavia: The New Art Practice, 1966–78. Forty...

Instructive, Dramatic, and Corrective Collectivity: Socialist Realism in the Mirror of Collegial Debates. A Case Study of Documents of the Artists’ Union of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1944–55
Māra Traumane

Based on the study of protocols of the Latvian Artists’ Union and the Organizational Committee of the Artists’ Union of the USSR, the article surveys...

Labor Power Plant
Romana Schmalisch

In those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, labour power is tradable as a commodity and, as such, not a natural good...

Yugoslavia as World History: The Political Economy of Self-Managed Art
Ivana Bago

Branislav Jakovljević’s study on performance and self-management in Yugoslavia and Armin Medosch’s research on New Tendencies and post-Fordism share a number of analytical frameworks that...

Introduction to “Common Space and Individual Space: Comments on a Group Task from the First Half of 1993,” Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
Lidia Klein

The introductory text presents “Common Space and Individual Space: Comments on a Group Task from the First Half of 1993,” a document translated into English...

Common Space and Individual Space: Comments on a Group Task from the First Half of 1993
Monika Dzik

The introductory text presents “Common Space and Individual Space: Comments on a Group Task from the First Half of 1993,” a document translated into English...