https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/2812fd5a-056b-4436-aa04-fd58115d24d0 This will be a book discussion of the book Past: An Introduction to the Problem which is distributed through our friends at Iskrabooks.org: https://www.iskrabooks.org/past We will be joined by Boris Buden, Olivera Jokić, Zoran Pantelic, & Dubravka Sekulić to discuss the book, thinking with the Yugoslavian Socialist past, film including "The Black Wave," and filmmaker Želimir Žilnik's work and thought specifically. The book Past • An Introduction to the Problem is also a part of the research program of Center_kuda.org and associates that examines the social, cultural, and intellectual heritage of former Yugoslavia. This program is carried out through the projects “The Continuous Art Class,” “Media Ontology,” and “Political practices of (post-) Yugoslavian art.” These projects provide a new reading of the progressive practices of the Neo-Avant Garde for today, and open a new way of communication between these practices and contemporary art production. Boris Buden is a writer, cultural theorist and translator based in Berlin. Born in former Yugoslavia he studied philosophy in Zagreb and received his PhD in cultural theory from Humboldt University in Berlin. Since the beginning of the 1980s Buden publishes essays and books on critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, politics and contemporary art in Croatian, German and English. He is permanent fellow at The European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies in Vienna, and teaches at various universities in Europe. Recently published: Transition to Nowhere: Art in History After 1989, Berlin 2020. Olivera Jokić helped Past: An Introduction to the Problem appear in English with new appendices and orientation aids. She spends a lot of her days in New York City. Zoran Pantelić artist, producer, curator and program editor in kuda.org. He founded artistic association Apsolutno (Absolutely) in 1993. The art collective was active in the nineties in the field of interdisciplinary art projects and media pluralism (www.apsolutno.net). In 2000 Zoran founded kuda.org_new media center, in Novi Sad, the collective dedicated to new technologies, art, education, activism and politics. Zoran is dedicated and focused on experimentation in arts and cross disciplinary works. That is why in his research he always initiates inter-disciplinary lines that can overlap to create projects that explore processes and techniques, address social, political, cultural and critical issues. Dubravka Sekulić is an educator and spatial theorist born in Yugoslavia. Focused on issues of solidarity and liberation, her work explores the connection between spatial literacy and collective political emancipation. She is currently writing a book under the tentative title City Against the City - Minor Planning for the Liberated Future. In 2009, with Gal Kirn and Žiga Testen, she initiated the project Surfing the Black - Yugoslav Black Cinema and its transgressive moments, which culminated with the book published in 2012 by Jan van Eyck Academie. The book can be found here. She works as a programme lead for MA City Design at Royal College Art. https://www.kuda.org/en The book was produced by Boris Buden, who wrote the essays and conducted conversations with Želimir Žilnik Želimir Žilnik, who answered Boris Buden’s questions, orally and in writing Hito Steyerl, who recorded conversations between BB and ŽŽ Olivera Jokić, who translated the book into English, re-edited and significantly improved the text kuda.org, the book’s initiators - who edited, redacted, and coordinated the work of book creation Publishers: New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad, Serbia, ISBN 978-86-88567-41-1 Multimedia Institute — MaMa, Zagreb, Croatia, ISBN 978-953-8469-13-8 Iskra Books, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, ISBN 979-8-8691-9071-0 Previous discussions on Yugoslavia - “Deciding and Building Their Everyday Society” Reflections on Yugoslavia With Gal Kirn and Dubravka Sekulić: https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/deciding-and-building-their-everyday-society-reflections-on-yugoslavia-with-gal-kirn-and-dubravka-sekuli Yugoslavia and Constructing Non-Alignment with Gal Kirn and Dubravka Sekulić: https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/yugoslavia-and-constructing-non-alignment-with-gal-kirn-and-dubravka-sekuli To support our work become a patron for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:02:00 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/2812fd5a-056b-4436-aa04-fd58115d24d0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.