Dr Jasmina Tumbas鈥 lecture will theorise post-Yugoslav contemporary art through the lens of queer and feminist diaspora. Analysing art from the 1990s to today, this presentation will think through diverse forms of resistance practised by artists after the violent disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Highlighting queer and feminist works by ex-Yugoslav immigrants now dispersed in diasporas, this talk centres questions of gender and race in Eastern Europe, and considers how (dis)integration has shaped the politics of the Yugoslav diaspora today.
Jasmina Tumbas (PhD, Art History, Duke聽University) is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History &聽Performance Studies in the Department of聽Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at聽the University at Buffalo. She is the author of聽鈥淚 Am Jugoslovenka!鈥 Feminist Performance聽Politics during聽& after Yugoslav Socialism聽(Manchester University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. Tumbas spent fall 2024 as a scholar at the Getty Research Institute, where she conducted research for her second book project,听Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art of Resistance Beyond Nationhood, which is also the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Tumbas serves as聽a volume editor for the multivolume project聽Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe聽(Brill) and is also co-editing the anthology,听Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology.听Her research has appeared in聽ArtMargins,听Camera聽Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies,听Art Monthly, Art in聽America, ASAP Journal, and聽Zeitschrift f眉r Kunstgeschichte.
Organised by Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Reader in 20th Century Modernism, The Courtauld, as part of the research cluster Migrations: People, Borders, Objects.听
