Performances from the opening of The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition

Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Azra Akšamija, Ilija Šoškić

27 Apr 2017

Performances by Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Ilija Šoškić and Azra Akšamija, in the frame of the exhibition The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents at Moderna galerija (Ljubjana, Slovenia).

To mark the opening of The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition. The 1980s through the Prism of Events, Exhibitions, and Discourses – Part 3, Moderna galerija hosted performances by Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Ilija Šoškić and Azra Akšamija.

The exhibition presents a re-enactment of the last big art exhibition in Yugoslavia in 1989: Yugoslav Documents '89 was curated by the artists Jusuf Hadžifejzović and Rade Tadić and realised under the auspices of the ZOI '84 Olimpijski centar Skenderija in the 8,000-square-metre Skenderija Center in Sarajevo. The current exhibition does not attempt to reconstruct Yugoslav Documents '89, but instead highlights its absences; indeed the tendency then had been to reference postmodern trends, rather than completely contextualise itself within the civil aura of Yugoslavia at the time. Here, three artists re-enact and perform to the exhibition, almost thirty years on.

Recorded at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 27 April 2017

Camera: Valérie Wolf Gang, Urša Bonelli Potokar, and Tomaž Kučer

Editing: Valérie Wolf Gang

Exhibition: The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition (The 1980s through the Prism of Events, Exhibitions, and Discourses – Part 3), 26 April to 17 September 2017

Curated by: Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur

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