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Stevan
VUKOVIC (Yugoslavia)
They
Came as Workers
Main
topic of the text is the relation of art to the process of
ideological interpellation and the potentials of art to engage in
emancipatory social practices by demasking and demonstrating the
processes of the creation of identities by ideological
interpellation. The context is former Yugoslavia and especially
Serbia in eighties and nineties, the processes of ethnic
mobilization and the swich of class identities to ethnic ones.
Three types of artistic practices are described through the work
of two Serbian artist and one group of artist. The thesis of the
text is that these practices can be considered as emancipating
from ethnic closure of artistic, cultural and social sphere. Title
of the text is taken from the title of a newspaper text describing
one of the most succesfull political speeches of Slobodan
Milosevic, held in front of the workers gathered for strike, who
afterwards left as Serbs convinced that their unberable life
standard is caused by the conspiracy of internal and external
enemies of the Serbs, not by the politics of the oligarchy on
power. One of the inspirations for the text are the lines of a
song by an ex-Yugoslav band called Haustor, released in
mid-eighties, which go as follows: "In half past three in the
morning from the third train stop working class goes to
heaven".
The
structure of the text/presentation/lecture ‚They Came as
Workers‘:
The
theoretical framework:
1
Towards the theory of ideological interpellation – Althusser and
Lacan
2 Towards the theory of ideological interpellation – Butler and
Zizek
3 Ideological inteprellation and hegemonic struggle – Laclau and
Mouffet
The
political framework:
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Yugoslav socialist patriotism‘ and the heroic image of the
working class
5 The working class goes to heaven‘ – ethnification of Serbia
in the eigthties
6 They came as workers and left as Serbs‘ – Milosevic’s
interpelatory machine
The
work of art working the frame – three cases from Serbia
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Rasa Todosijevic as ‚serbobljsevik‘ and ‚uberserbe‘
8 Dusan Otasevic and the ‚Tronoska Erminija‘
9 Skart’s campaigne ‚Neither Sloba nor NATO‘
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