POLITIČNOST UMJETNOSTI BALKANA: BLUT & HONIG/ ZUKUNFT IST AM BALKAN (BLOOD & HONEY/ FUTURE’S IN THE BALKANS)
POLITICALITY OF ART AT BALKANS: BLUT&HONIG/ZUKUNFT IST AM BALKAN (BLOOD &HONEY/FUTURE IST AM BALKANS)

Summary/Abstract: Historic discourses on the Balkans have determined modes of its perception: inherently unstable, “torn” by its internal conflicts and irreconcilable differences the Balkan is condemned to the “eternal transition” and continuous ambiguity. The “Balkan art”, defined and “limited” by the Balkan entity (and identity), is an expression of the Balkans’ conflicting nature: therefore, it is defined as inherently “political”. The self-sustained, self-referential, self-generating “art world” have produced this category and legitimized the “political” as an art genre. Nevertheless, the “political” cannot be conceived as an inherent attribute of any individual artwork or any art practice, neither can be “located” inside any system of representation: “political” is in dissensus or in effects of unexpected meanings produced inside a specific local “situation” of art exhibiting or performing. Political is an intervention of those meanings in the social sphere.

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