Artist talk with Aleksandra Domanović, Irena Haiduk and Tijana Mišković
As the Yugoslav collective identity disappeared and new borders were drawn, new official narratives of nationhood, belonging, and culture began to take shape. What happens to one’s identity when the place you come from no longer exists? How do you remember a shared past that is being rewritten – or forgotten?
Born in 1981 in the former Yugoslavia – in the part that is now Serbia – Aleksandra Domanović grew up during a time defined by two profound shifts: the rise of the internet and the gradual dissolution of the country she called home. Two infrastructures – one digital and one political – were being built up and dismantled around her at the same time.
In this artist talk, Domanović will share insights from her practice and, in conversation with artist Irena Haiduk and researcher and curator Tijana Mišković, discuss how artists can work with concepts such as geopolitics, memory, and identity.
Artist Irena Haiduk, born in 1982 – also in what is now Serbia – grew up in the same transformative period as Aleksandra. Haiduk’s artistic practice includes Yugoexport, an enterprise that explores the socio-political aesthetics of the Balkans through innovative projects. Yugoexport supports legal infrastructures, commercial enterprise, research, and exhibitions where the frame of art powers life though equivalence, loyalty and familial solidarity between people and things. Haiduks upcoming feature, a science fiction biography of Yugoslav 1990s, titled Nula, is narrated by self-generated cats. Co-produced in Denmark, the feature presents three women as they transform from an illustrator, a statistician and a teenager into a forger, a prostitute and bait.
The conversation will be moderated by Tijana Mišković, an independent curator born in 1982, holding an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Copenhagen. Most recently, Mišković worked as curator and researcher at SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, where she curated the exhibition “Connections – Danish Artists from the Former Yugoslavia.” In her practice, Mišković has a particular interest in diasporic and transcultural aspects of artworks, which are often explored through a dynamic interplay of memories across national, cultural, and generational boundaries.
