Ivana Marjanović: QueerBeograd Cabaret – A Shared Space between Queer, Anti-Facism and No Borders Politics
Book launch and discussion between Ivana Marjanović (author), Stephanie Graf (philosopher) und Andrei Siclodi (curator)
On April 30, Fellow Ivana Marjanović will present her book QueerBeograd Cabaret as part of the Follow-Ups series. QueerBeograd was a clandestine festival in Belgrade, Serbia, that created spaces of critique and transformation to promote the politics of networking. In her book QueerBeograd Cabaret – A Shared Space between Queer, Anti-Facism and No Borders Politics, Ivana Marjanović examines the transnational activist cabaret within the festival between 2006 and 2008, which was conceived, directed and produced by Jet Moon, a founding member of the QueerBeograd collective.
After the book presentation, Ivana Marjanović will discuss with Stephanie Graf and Andrei Siclodi the specific practice of QueerBeograd’s performances, intersectional perspectives beyond identity, and art activism.
On site at Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen, the book can be purchased at a reduced price.
The book:
Ivana Marjanović, QueerBeograd Cabaret. A Shared Space between Queer, Anti-Facism and No Borders Politics
300 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-3-8376-6994-7, Bielefeld: transcript, 2024
https://www.transcript-verlag.de
Access Info:
Online: The call will be enabled with automatic closed captions in English. The event is hybrid and will be held in English. You can either attend in person at Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen or follow the event online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided after registration via Eventbrite.
Onsite: Unfortunately, the space in Innsbruck is not wheelchair accessible. The bathrooms are used as gender neutral. Chairs with backs, arms and floor seating is all available. We have plenty of space to store mobility devices of all kinds. There is a low sensory space available.
Stephanie GRAF studied in Vienna, Mexico, and Jerusalem and holds a doctorate in political and moral philosophy. She is currently a research assistant at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She teaches and researches in the fields of critical theory and political aesthetics.
Ivana MARJANOVIĆ is a curator, author, and the director of Kunstraum Innsbruck since 2019. Her work focuses on art and cultural production in the context of transnational knowledge, migration, the post-Yugoslavian space, and gender debates. Marjanović studied art history at the University of Belgrade (graduated in 2005). She completed her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2017. Since 2019, she has been a member of the editorial team of Migrazine – online magazine by migrant women for all (migrazine.at). Ivana Marjanović was a Büchsenhausen Fellow 2011-2012. During this time, she wrote the first chapter of the book QueerBeograd Cabaret at Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen.
Andrei SICLODI (*1972 in Bucharest) is a curator, writer, editor and cultural worker whose theoretical research focuses on forms of critical-emancipatory knowledge production in art. He is director of Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck and founding director of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory which takes place there. He is also editor of the publication series „BÜCHS‘N’BOOKS – Art and Knowledge Production in Context“ and producer of the monthly radio broadcast „Büchs’n’Radio“ on Radio Freirad.
Andrei Siclodi (*1972 in Bucharest, † 18 August 2025 in Hall i.T.)
We are mourning the loss of Andrei Siclodi, director of Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen, esteemed colleague and dear friend.
Location
Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen