Miško Šuvakovic
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Prof. Dr. Miško Šuvaković is a contemporary aestheticist, art theorist and conceptual artist born in 1954 in Belgrade
, Yugoslavia
. He teaches theory of art and theory of culture in Interdisciplinary Postgraduates Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade
.
degree with theme "Analytical philosophy and Theory in Art" (Faculty of Visual Arts
, Belgrade, University of Arts in Belgrade
). He teaches aesthetics
and theory of art, Faculty of Music, Belgrade (Professor). He was co-editor of magazine Katalog 143 (Belgrade, 1975–78), Mentalni prostor (Belgrade
, 1982-1987), Transkatalog (Novi Sad
, 1995-1998), Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory, Belgrade, from 2001), Kultura (Beograd, from 2004), Razlika (Difference, Tuzla, 2002), Anomalija (Novi Sad, 2004), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo
, Zagreb
, Ljubljana
, Beograd, Skoplje, 2006).
, music
, painting
, theatre
, opera
, film
) and “theory
” here-and-now. In fact, as “theory” he names semantically aimed different effects and appearances of the procedures of creating (making, manufacturing, producing,) art, of delaying the effects of the work of art in speech (parole) and writing (ecriture), of constructing the jargon inside artworlds, the interpolation of voices of criticism into sensually anticipated figures of art, the bordering identities of different “speeches” within social sciences and humanities, the exceptionalities and autonomies of the functions of theory and art, the general interpretative possibilities of philosophy of art, but he names the dramatically contradictious “returns to the body” within classical and outside the contemporary aesthetics, as well. It is indeed question of the identification of a “big” and “difficult” problem, of a polysemantic problem which concerns the relationship between :
(a) “texts” about different material formulations (sound musical texts, pictorial painterly texts , audio-visual movie texts, completely corporal-behavioural theatre and performance art texts, or literary texts situated by the writing / ecriture / ), and
(b) delaying and transferring texts on thinking, talking and writing about art. By this approach he intend to persevere in the “diadisciplinarity”, in the crossed out or exceeded disciplinarity, which does not allow the objectification of the relationship between “art”, “theory” and “body” into a firm method, but, instead, keeps that method in the state of crisis of heterogeneous events or incidents. The relationship between theory and art “through” his body is the “event” or “incident” of the located representation or presentation.
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
. He teaches theory of art and theory of culture in Interdisciplinary Postgraduates Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade
University of Arts in Belgrade
The University of Arts in Belgrade is a public university in Belgrade, founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies...
.
Biography
He was co-founder and member of conceptual artistic Group 143 (1975 - 1980), and was co-founder and member of informal theoretic and artistic "Community for Space Investigation" (1982–1989). He has participated in TkH – tehory platform from October 2000. From 1988 he is the member of Slovenian Aesthetic Society. In March, 1993 he got PhDPHD
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degree with theme "Analytical philosophy and Theory in Art" (Faculty of Visual Arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
, Belgrade, University of Arts in Belgrade
University of Arts in Belgrade
The University of Arts in Belgrade is a public university in Belgrade, founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies...
). He teaches aesthetics
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
and theory of art, Faculty of Music, Belgrade (Professor). He was co-editor of magazine Katalog 143 (Belgrade, 1975–78), Mentalni prostor (Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, 1982-1987), Transkatalog (Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
, 1995-1998), Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory, Belgrade, from 2001), Kultura (Beograd, from 2004), Razlika (Difference, Tuzla, 2002), Anomalija (Novi Sad, 2004), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
, Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
, Beograd, Skoplje, 2006).
Methodology: Art and Theory
Miško Šuvaković mirrors, indexes, describes and interprets the uncertain but essential relationship between “art” (literatureLiterature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
) and “theory
Theory
The English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...
” here-and-now. In fact, as “theory” he names semantically aimed different effects and appearances of the procedures of creating (making, manufacturing, producing,) art, of delaying the effects of the work of art in speech (parole) and writing (ecriture), of constructing the jargon inside artworlds, the interpolation of voices of criticism into sensually anticipated figures of art, the bordering identities of different “speeches” within social sciences and humanities, the exceptionalities and autonomies of the functions of theory and art, the general interpretative possibilities of philosophy of art, but he names the dramatically contradictious “returns to the body” within classical and outside the contemporary aesthetics, as well. It is indeed question of the identification of a “big” and “difficult” problem, of a polysemantic problem which concerns the relationship between :
(a) “texts” about different material formulations (sound musical texts, pictorial painterly texts , audio-visual movie texts, completely corporal-behavioural theatre and performance art texts, or literary texts situated by the writing / ecriture / ), and
(b) delaying and transferring texts on thinking, talking and writing about art. By this approach he intend to persevere in the “diadisciplinarity”, in the crossed out or exceeded disciplinarity, which does not allow the objectification of the relationship between “art”, “theory” and “body” into a firm method, but, instead, keeps that method in the state of crisis of heterogeneous events or incidents. The relationship between theory and art “through” his body is the “event” or “incident” of the located representation or presentation.
Books
- 2010 Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek - Prvi tom: Radikalne umetničke prakse, Orion art, Beograd (srp.)
- 2006 Diskurzivna analiza – Prestupi i/ili pristupi ’diskurzivne analize’ filozofiji, poetici, estetici, teoriji i studijama umetnosti i kulture, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd, (srp.)
- 2006 Farenhajt 387 – Teorijske ispovesti, Orpheus, Novi Sad, (srp.)
- 2006 Studije slučaja – Diskurzivna analiza izvođenja identiteta u umetničkim praksama, Mali Nemo, Pančevo, (srp.)
- 2005 Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti, Horetzky, Zagreb, 2005. (hrv.)
- 2005 Mapiranje tijela/tijelom – Zlatko KopljarZlatko KopljarZlatko Kopljar is a contemporary artist living and working in Zagreb, Croatia. He works in a variety of different media including photography, video and performance....
[Mapping of the Body/with body], Meandar, Zagreb (hrv. engl.) - 2004 Politike slikarstva, Obalne galerije, Piran, 2004. (slov.)
- 2003 Impossible Histories – Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-Avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918–1991, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, (sa Dubravkom Đurić) (engl.)
- 2003 Vlasta Delimar - Monografijaperformans [Vlasta Delimar - Monographyperformance], Areagrafika, Zagreb (sa Vladom Martekom i Marijanom Špoljarom) (hrv. engl.)
- 2002 Martek – Fatalne figure umjetnika – Eseji o umjetnosti i kulturi XX. stoljeća u Jugoistiočnoj. Istočnoj i Srednjoj Europi kroz djelo(vanje) umjentika Vlade Marteka [Martek – Artist’s Fatal Figures – Essays on Art and Culture of the 20th Century in the Southeastern, Eastern and Middle Europe through the Work of Artist Vlado Martek], Meandar, Zagreb, (hrv. engl.)
- 2001 Anatomija angelov. Razprave o umetnosti in teoriji v Sloveniji po letu 1960, ZPS, Ljubljana, 2001. (slov.)
- 2001 Figura, askeza in perverzija, Hyperion, Koper, 2001. (slov.)
- 2001 Paragrami tela/figure: Predavanja i rasprave o strategijama i taktikama teorijskog izvođenja u modernom i postmodernom performance artu, teatru, operi, muzici, filmu i tehnoumetnosti, CENPI, Beograd, (srp.)
- 2000 Point de Capiton. Eseji, fragmenti i meditacije o umjetnicima, Izdanje Darko Šimičić i Božidar Raos, Zagreb, (hrv.)
- 1999 Pojmovnik moderne i postmoderne likovne umetnosti i teorije posle 1950, SANU i Prometej, Beograd i Novi Sad, (srp.)
- 1999 Koloman Novak LUMINOKINETIKA. Eseji o Kolomanu Novaku [Koloman Novak LUMINOCINETICS, Essays on Koloman Nopvak], Prometej, Novi Sad, (srp. engl.)
- 1998 Estetika apstraktnog slikarstva. Apstraktna umetnost i teorija umetnika 20-ih godina, Narodna knjiga / Alfa, Beograd, (srp.)
- 1997 Slavko Bogdanović POLITIKA TELA. Eseji o Slavku Bogdanoviću [Slavko Bogdanović BODY POLITICS, Essays on Slavko Bogdanović], Prometej i K21K, Novi Sad, *1997. (srp. engl.)
- 1996 Asimetrični drugi. Eseji o umetnicima i konceptima, Prometej, Novi Sad, (srp.)
- 1996 Neša Paripović AUTOPORTRETI. Eseji o Neši Paripoviću [Neša Paripović, SELFPORTRAITS. Essays on Neša Paripović], Prometej, Novi Sad, (srp. engl.)
- 1995 Postmoderna (73 pojma), Narodna knjiga, Beograd, (srp.)
- 1995 Prolegomena za analitičku estetiku, Četvrti talas, Novi Sad, (srp.)
- 1994 PAS TOUT - Fragments on art, culture, politics, poetics and art theory 1994-1974, Meow Press, Buffalo NY, (engl.)
- 1989 Scene jezika. Uloga teksta u likovnim umetnostima. Fragmentarne istorije 1920-1990 knj. 1 i 2, ULUS, Beograd, (srp.)
Curatorial works
- 2007 Konceptualna umetnost, Muzej savremene umentosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad.
- 2006 Hibridno – Imaginarno : slikarstvo ili ekran, Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad.
- 2005 Moć Praznine – Julije KniferJulije KniferJulije Knifer was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....
i Tomo Savić Gecan, Galerija PM, Zagreb. - 2004 Politike slikarstva, Obalne galerije, Piran.
- 1998 Prestupničke forme devedesetih – Postmoderna i avangarda na kraju XX veka, (sa Ješom Denegrijem), Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti Novi Sad i Centar za savremenu kulturu Konkordija Vršac.
- 1996 Tendencije devedesetih: hijatusi modernizma i postmodernizma, Centar za vizuelnu kulturu ‘Zlatno oko’, Novi Sad.
- 1996 Primeri apstraktne umetnosti: jedna radikalna istorija, Paviljon Cvijete Zuzorić, Beograd.
- 1995 Grupa Kod, Grupa ($ i Grupa ($ Kod – Retrospektiva, Galerija savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad.
- 1981 David Nez – Rad 1968-1973, Gakerija SKCa, Beograd.
- 1980 Primeri – druga skulptura 1961-1979, Galerija SKCa, Beograd.
- 1978 Primeri analitičkih radova, Galerija SKCa i Galerija Nova, Zagreb.
Essays
- „Epostemology of Teaching Art – How to Learn / Teach Art – Yes or No ...How and Where!?“, from “Art in the grip of education”, Maska no. 103-104, Ljubljana, 2007.
- “Technologies of Performing in Performance Art”, TkH no. 10, Beograd, 2006.
- “Indexing and Mapping Modern and Postmodern Art in Serbia after 1945”, from Irwin (eds), East Art Map – Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, Afterall, London, 2006.
- “Critical Question About Deconstruction or About DeCentring of the Relation Between *Philosophy and Music”, in Leon Stefanija (ed), Musicological Annual XLI / 2, Ljubljana”, 2005.
- “Theoretical Performance”, Maska no. 90-91, Ljubljana, 2005.
- “NSK Symptom”, from Art and Politics – The Imagination of Opposition in Europe, R4 publishing, Dublin i The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, 2004.
- „Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans“, from Aleš Erjavec (ed), Postmodernism and the Postsocijalist Condition – Politized Art under Late Socialism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003.
- “The Limits of Discourse: A Lecture on Relationship between Theory and Body in the XX Century”, Filozofski vesnik XXIII, 2/2002, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2002.
- “Belgrade”, iz Timothy O. Benson (ed), Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910–1930, LACMA Los Angeles i The MIT Press Cambridge Mass, 2002.
- “The Ideology of Exhibition: on the ideologies of ManifestaManifestaManifesta, the , is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale, described in 2010 by the as "stunning in its scope and uncompromisingly experimental in its approach".-Manifesta History:...
”, Platforma SCCA no.3, Ljubljana, 2002. - “Critical Phenomenology of Artwork: The Status, the Functions and the Effects of the Artwork at ManifestaManifestaManifesta, the , is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale, described in 2010 by the as "stunning in its scope and uncompromisingly experimental in its approach".-Manifesta History:...
3”, Platforma SCCA no. 2, Ljubljana, 2000. - “Status and priorities. A pre-consideration for Manifesta 3”, Platforma SCCA no. 1, Ljubljana, 2000.
- "Painting After Painting: The Painting od Susan Bee", from M/E/A/N/I¬/N.G – An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism, Duke University Press, Durham, London, 1995.
- “Advocates: Art and Philosophy. Approachin the ‘Relations’ of Philosophy and Art in the 20th Century”, from XIVth International Congress of Aesthetics “Aesthetics as Philosophy” * Proceedings - Part I - Introductory and Invited Papers, u Filozofski vestnik št. 2, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1999, str. 111-126.
TV Programs
- Video pojmovnik umetnosti i teorije XX veka [Video Dictionary: Art and Theory in 20th Century] (22 shows), ART TV, Beograd, 2000-2001.