Roles in Archive: Speaker
Jelena Vesić is an independent curator, writer, editor, and lecturer. She was Coeditor of Prelom – Journal of Images and Politics in Belgrade (2001–09) and Cofounder of the independent organization Prelom Collective, Belgrade, (2005–10), active in the field of publishing, research, and exhibition practice that intertwines political theory and contemporary art. Her research is dedicated to the politics of representation in art and visual culture, focusing on discourses of Eastern European Art, Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultural–political space, historical avant-gardes, art of the 1960s and 1970s, and current art practices. Her recent curatorial projects include: “Oktobar XXX: Exposition – Symposium – Performance,” Cultural Centre Theatre, Pancevo 2012/Bone Festival, Bern, 2013; “Against Art: Goran Djordjevic – Copies (1979-1985),” Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, and City Gallery, Ljubljana, 2012/13. Vesić will present a talk entitled “Images on other world(s), lost in gravity.”