Project title
Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia
Research question
How artworks articulate values?
Project description
Aleksandar Bošković studies experimental art from the former Yugoslavia, focusing on how these creative practices – across literature, film, visual arts, and radio – express decolonial aesthetics and its radical epistemologies.
At the core of these practices is a compelling idea: that “nothing” can help us rethink how value is created. His research demonstrates how, using techniques of refusal and negation, Yugoslav artists reframe the question of value and offer new ways of imagining future cultural narratives.
Radical Yugoslav art practices, Bošković argues, remind us that the same principle applies to both post-Balkan and European contexts: such a culture is founded not on identity but on responsibility.
Selected publications
- Bošković, Aleksandar. 2024. “Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia.” (Belgrade: University Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory; Rijeka: Regional center for advanced studies of humanities, RECAS, 2024).
- Bošković, Aleksandar. 2021. “Underground Šišmiš Radio,” Slavic & East European Journal, vol. 65, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 247–271.
- Bošković, Aleksandar. 2019. “Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine Film Leaflet (1976-1979)” Fiction in Central and Eastern European Film Theory and Practice (ed. by J. Alexander Bareis and Mario Slugan). Special Issue of Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2019.0008.161
