Marina Grzinic e Aina Smid

Videoart by Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid

Videoart by Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

Website with video art works, archives and different materials related to the work of Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, whohave been working with video since 1982. They participated in more than 40 video art projects, shot a 16mm short film and created numerous video and media installations; they independently directed several video documentaries and television productions. In 1997, they created an interactive CD-ROM for the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Gržinić and Šmid presented and exhibited their video works and video installations at more than 100 video festivals around the world and received several important awards for their video production. Porno codes, thriller situations and overtly formulated political catastrophes (as in the video Bilocation, from 1990, in which they announced the splitting of ex-Yugoslavia and the war in the Balkans) are the basic elements of their work. In the 1980s they tried to question the Socialist ideology. In the 1990s they focused their work on subverting the Western system of aesthetics/ethics/visuality. Art and pornography were silently forbidden, and body art never came to life in Slovenia. Today they are obsessed with turbo capitalist system, processuality and politics of performativity.

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  • Institution: Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid


  • Language: English

  • Media type: Website, Video

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Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body – Movie by Marta Popivoda

Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body – Movie by Marta Popivoda

10/07/2023In Bodies Politics

The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90s, 5th October revolution, etc.). Going back through the images, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people, ideology, and the state.

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  • Institution: Marta Popivoda


  • Language: Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles

  • Media type: Video

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