We present on-line magazine uz)bu))na)))
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uz)bu))na))) (alarm in English) is an experiment in self-organization seeking to develop more sensible models of being and working together.
uz)bu))na))) is working in the field of the transversal connections between theoretical, artistic and political activist practices that develops in the vicinity of the movement against neoliberal capitalist globalization.
uz)bu))na))) represents a queer, feminist, post-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, anti-fascist world view.
uz)bu))na))) wants to provoke the state of alert in relation to all forms of social discrimination from those based on social class and race to those based gender and sexuality.
uz)bu))na))) wants to explore the potential for a possible new convergency of art and political movements.
uz)bu))na))) wants to provide and create unexpected spaces and unexpected situations for the production of knowledge.
uz)bu))na))) promotes a radical difference to the status quo rather than inclusion in the existing power structure.
uz)bu))na))) opposes all forms of violence, corporate rationality, cultural industries, profit-motivated initiatives, the patriarchal matrix, flirting with the ownership and consumerist models.
uz)bu))na))) indicates danger threatening from economic-political power, which produces and shapes the lives of individuals and populations through regulation and deregulation and managing mechanisms who at the end come life down to his minimum.
uz)bu))na))) is a state of alert, call to direct action and creation of new worlds.
uz)bu))na))) collective are: Ana Vilenica, Tanja Markovic, Nikoleta Markovic and Lina Mounzer.
Ana Vilenica was born 1978 in Pancevo Yugoslavia. She is the author of numerous articles in the fields of criticism, theory and art history. She graduated from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University, and completed her postgraduate studies in stage design at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She finished her doctoral studies with the Group for Theories of Art and Media, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is engaged in the artistic-activist initiative “Tourrorist Agency”, and she is particularly interested in creating alternative sensitive models of being outside existing sets of power relations.
Tanja Markovic was born in Belgrade in 1970. She graduated in Psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. She was a postgraduate student of Theory of Arts and Media at the University of Arts, Belgrade. A member of the Druga Scena (Other Scene) platform of the Belgrade independent scene, she has also done activistic work with the Women at Work and The Center for Queer Studies. She has had several performances in Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana and London in collaboration with the TkH group, and has exhibited installations in group exhibitions in Belgrade, Vienna, San Diego and Timisoara. She is the author of several theoretical and artistic texts (published in TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory), poetry (magazines: ProFemina, Treći trg, Agon, Anthology of contemporary poetry Tracing the Gender-Meaning of Engagement, DEVE, Belgrade, 2006); and, along with Tamara Suskic and Ana Seferovic, is the co-author of the drama plays Discreet Women, Decorative Child and Great Dane (published in Book 24 / 7 of Love, DEVE, Belgrade 2007, and in Scene, Theater Arts Review, 2008) and Navigation (public readings in theatre Preglej, Ljubljana, 2008 and in Sterijino pozorje, Novi Sad, 2009). She is also co-author of a scientific work in psycholinguistics: Kostić A., Marković T., Baucal A., Inflectional Morphology and Word Meaning: Orthogonal or Co-implicative Cognitive Domain? published in Morphological Structure in Language Processing (ed. R.Harald Baayen & Robert Schreuder), Monton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2003.
Nikoleta Markovic’s interests are placed in the liminal space between contemporary art and potential new audience and authors, investigating the complex inter-relations essential to this exchange. Her works are generated mostly within the process of examining positions, roles and responsibilities of the artist in contemporary society, thus thematizing the entire drama of politics going on between an individual and community. Her recent activities revolve around experiments in developing of (motivational) workshop as a model for participative, non-hierarchical art education and in realizing practice of a workshop as a lecture-performance structure for art and activism. She participated in numerous international exhibitions, conferences and workshops. She is the author of several art works in public space and is currently working on her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. (www.elevatorart.info)
Lina Mounzer was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1978 and has lived there for most of her life. A fiction writer, she has also written essays for Bidoun magazine, a journal of arts and culture in the Middle East, and has taught Creative Writing at both the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University. She was a literature fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, and is currently a fellow with JAK, the Young Hungarian Writer’s Association in Budapest, where she is finishing her first novel.
uz)bu))nu))) is initiated by Ana Vilenica during her stay in bilateral artist exchange program, with a period of tree, between Centra_kuda.org Novi Sad, Serbia and Akademie Schloss Solitude Štutgart, Germany. Setting up a web site and realization of first issue of journal is financed by Akademie Schloss Solitude Štutgart.
