Critical Writing Index

Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism

by Barbara Borčić

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003

Due to its accessibility and tight relationship with television, video has the exceptional role of generating social change, even within the constraints of totalitarian management. In the context of a society ready to enter civil war, such privileged position of art can be brought into question. Through examination of rich and diverse forms of video art practices in Yugoslavia before the nation was divided (from the 1960s to the late 1980s), Borcic reveals the delicate ways in which the government and its opposition can confront, but also collaborate with and influence each other.

ITEM 2003.146 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Rhythm 4Marina Abramović

Was ist Kunst, Who profits from art and who makes honest moneyGoran Trbuljak

Belo mleko belih prsi (The white milk of white breasts), Video paintingRaša Todosijević

RhythmOHO

Cenzurišem se (I am censoring myself)Nuša Paripović

TV-Timer (1973)Mladen Stilinović

Videogram 4, AutovizijaSanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis

American DreamMiha Vipotnik

Rhythm 4Bogdanka Poznanović and Marko Kovačič

Laibach

Video Heads

Ulay

Srečo Dragan