Aleksandar Bošković has published a short booklet under the title “Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia,” published by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade Regional Center for Advanced Studies of Humanities–RECAS, and the Regional Network of the Centers for Advanced Studies of Southeast Europe.
This text deals specifically with Yugoslav experimental art practices. It investigates the relationship between negation practices across different art forms and media – literature, film, visual arts, radio – in former Yugoslavia (1918–2006), as well as the notion of artistic, economic, and symbolic values. Yugoslav experimental art practices are bearers of decolonial aesthetics and its radical epistemologies. Examining how they questioned, even deconstructed, existing ideologies (and their values) helps create a space for us today to operate both within and beyond specific ideologies with more freedom.
