Museum Lecture: “Staging the Real of Power: NSK History and Continuity” with artist Eda Čufer and professor Marina Filipovic
75 Russell Street
Lewiston, Maine 04240
Join us for visiting artist Eda Čufer in discussion with Marina Filipovic, Visiting Lecturer in Russian at Bates. Their talk will encompass subject matter relating to the Neue Slowenische Kunst | Monumental Spectacular exhibition–on view until October 5–including avant garde arts practices in Yugoslavia in the late twentieth century.
Eda Čufer is a dramaturg, curator, writer, and professor of contemporary art history and theory. In 1984, she co-founded the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Between 2005 and 2020 she lived in the US where she taught art history and theory at Maine College of Art and Design. Her research and writings are concerned with the ideologies of contemporary art, in particular the relationship of political and technological systems to art systems.
Marina Filipovic received her MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from University of Illinois at Chicago, with a specialization in Russian and Yugoslav literatures; and her PhD in Russian literature and film from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Marina’s teaching ranges from the nineteenth-century to present-day Russia, and across all periods of Soviet culture, including Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultures. She looks at literatures, film, technology, gender, the avant-garde, socialist realism, and the history of science.