Bio : Marina Gr?ini? born 1958 in Rijeka, Croatia, the former Yugoslavia. Lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Vienna, Austria. Aina ?mid born 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the former Yugoslavia. Lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Description : The video is based on the philosophical text “Mapping Post-socialism” by Marina Gr?ini? that is a kind of philosophical-media reflection (tractate) about the cultural-artistic and political space regarding the condition of post-socialism in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia in the 1980s and 1990s. Three artists, art groups respectively coming from Ljubljana (IRWIN), Zagreb (Mladen Stilinovi?) and Belgrade (the artist known only by his fake name, as Kasimir Malevich) with their artistic projects and especially with their relation to the socialist and post-socialist ideology code in a specific way with the ex-Yugoslavia space or territory are presented in the video. “Retroavantgarda” is a specific aesthetic and social movement produced by these artists and recently with some others from Eastern Europe. The video consists of some exclusive historical documentary materials and of statements by two important philosophers the Slovenian Slavoj ?i?ek and the German/Austrian Peter Weibel.