MARTA POPIVODA and ANA VUJANOVIĆ

Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. For many years, her focus has been on the antifascist and feminist potentialities of the Yugoslav socialist project. Her film Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and is part of the film collection of MoMA New York. Popivoda’s work has been featured in major art galleries, such as Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, and MAXXI Rome. She received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin. Her latest film, Landscapes of Resistance, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the 50th IFFR and won more than ten awards worldwide. Currently, her work is presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale and Manifesta 14 Biennal.

Ana Vujanović (Berlin / Beograd) is a cultural worker. As a theorist, she works in the fields of performance, culture and gender studies. Her most recent book is Toward a Transindividual Self, A study in social dramaturgy, with B. Cvejic (2022). Since 2016 she is a team member and mentor at SNDO, Amsterdam, and from 2022 – a guest professor at the HZT, Berlin. A remarkable part of her work is cultural activism and she has taken part in numerous organizations and initiatives, such as TkH [Walking Theory] from Belgrade. She is also engaged as dramaturge in contemporary performance and film, most recently in documentaryLandscapes of Resistance dir. by M. Popivoda (2021).