The 51^st Zagreb Salon: Challenges to Humanism side program

MILICA TOMIĆ

Artist talk: What is the name of the war today?

Friday, June 24 at 6.00 pm

HDLU Club

Artist talk: What is the name of the war today?

It seems that in last decades the term “war” had acquired a new meaning. This new type of war introduced ideological and criminalization mechanisms outlawing certain ethnic groups, religious communities and whole states. At the same time there is generally an absence of differentiation between war and peace. In the light of this I would argue that the experience of the war arrives as one of the most precious global values.

The lecture is tied to the artist’s exhibition O Labudoviću: Kino, škola i rat za neovisnost, instalacija (On Labudović: Cinema, shool and the independence war, installation), scheduled to open on June 23 at 8.00 PM in 90-60-90 Gallery / POGON Jedinstvo. The exhibition will be open June 23 – 28 / 4.00 PM – 9.00 PM.

Milica Tomić (Belgrade / Graz / Berlin, born in Yugoslavia) explores in her work the different genres and methods of art practice, which focus on research, examination and creating debates on political violence, economic bases and social amnesia, with a special emphasis on the fine line between the personal and the political. In 2002, she founded the theoretical Monument group (Nova jugoslavenska umjetnost) and in 2010 she initiated the project Four Faces of Omarska (FFO Working Group). She is the head of the Institute at the Graz University of Technology, and professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014/2015). She has participated in numerous international exhibitions: the 24th Sao Paolo Biennial (1998), the 49th and 50th Venice Biennial (2001/2003), the Prague Biennial (2007), Manufacturing Today Trondheim Biennial (2010), the 6th International Art Biennial in Gyumri, Armenia (2008), the 10th Sharja Biennial (2011), the Odessa Biennial (2013), After Year Zero/Forensis at the House of the World’s Cultures in Berlin, Germany (2013/2014), Invisible Violence at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Serbia and at the Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria (2014), The School of Kyiv – The Biennial (2015).