Dejan Vasic
Dejan Vasić is an art historian and curator of late modern and contemporary art and moving image media. He specializes in the transnational avant-garde and conceptual art, concentrating primarily on performance, video art, photography, and artists’ films and media works. His research intersects art, power, war, and everyday life, with methodological grounding in historical materialism, memory politics, decolonial, gender and feminist theory, and affirmation of critical thinking as a public good. Dejan is passionate about the history of exhibitions, museology and curatorial practice; he is invested in writings in the first person, and frequently collaborates with artists who battle social, economic and political problems.
Vasić has over a decade of experience in Serbia and the Yugoslav region, where he engaged in radical curatorial practices and critical writing that delves into the politics and ethics of aesthetics. Between 2009 and 2013, he collaborated with Kontekst Collective and organized exhibitions and discussions foregrounding art's critical role in the public sphere. In the same period, as a member of the Culture of Memory curatorial platform, he conducted research about collective remembrance and disputed histories in the post-war Yugoslav context. From 2010 to 2015, Dejan was a member of the Four Faces of Omarska Working Group, which investigated the role of the arts in the policy of perpetuating war crimes by other means. From 2017 to 2023, he worked as the curator of the visual arts program at the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade (CZKD) and provided a dynamic space for exhibiting, discussing and fostering experiments in arts. From 2018 to 2023, he was the co-editor of Beton (Cultural Propaganda Kit), a prominent Serbian journal that focuses on political, social, and art criticism. Vasić is a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA, and has served on the Program Advisory Board of AICA-Serbia (2020-2023).
Vasić has over a decade of experience in Serbia and the Yugoslav region, where he engaged in radical curatorial practices and critical writing that delves into the politics and ethics of aesthetics. Between 2009 and 2013, he collaborated with Kontekst Collective and organized exhibitions and discussions foregrounding art's critical role in the public sphere. In the same period, as a member of the Culture of Memory curatorial platform, he conducted research about collective remembrance and disputed histories in the post-war Yugoslav context. From 2010 to 2015, Dejan was a member of the Four Faces of Omarska Working Group, which investigated the role of the arts in the policy of perpetuating war crimes by other means. From 2017 to 2023, he worked as the curator of the visual arts program at the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade (CZKD) and provided a dynamic space for exhibiting, discussing and fostering experiments in arts. From 2018 to 2023, he was the co-editor of Beton (Cultural Propaganda Kit), a prominent Serbian journal that focuses on political, social, and art criticism. Vasić is a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA, and has served on the Program Advisory Board of AICA-Serbia (2020-2023).
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Samostalna izložba Mike Tanile pod nazivom „Između ploča“ pruža uvid u opus radova koji se susreću i prepliću u oblasti istraživanja vizuelnog i zvuka, od statusa i izmeštanja medijske slike, preko oponašanja medijskog okruženja u životu ljudi, njegove povezanosti i njegove raspršenosti. Katalog izložbe održane u Kulturnom centru Beograda, mart-april 2021, izdavač: Kulturni centar Beograda
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Mika Taanila’s solo exhibition “In Between the Plates” will offer an insight into the body of works that meet and intersect in the area of visual and sound research, from status and displacement of the media image to the emulation of the media environment of the human life, its coherency and its dispersion. Catalog of the exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Podroom Gallery, March-April 2021, published by Cultural Center of Belgrade
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Mika Taanila’s solo exhibition “In Between the Plates” will offer an insight into the body of works which meet and intersect in the area of visual and sound research, from status and displacement of the media image, to the emulation of the media environement of the human life, its coherency and its dispersion. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Podroom Gallery, March-April 2021, published by Cultural Center of Belgrade
Samostalna izložba Mike Tanile pod nazivom „Između ploča“ pruža uvid u opus radova koji se susreću i prepliću u oblasti istraživanja vizuelnog i zvuka, od statusa i izmeštanja medijske slike, preko oponašanja medijskog okruženja u životu ljudi, njegove povezanosti i njegove raspršenosti. Katalog izložbe održane u Kulturnom centru Beograda, mart-april 2021, izdavač: Kulturni centar Beograda
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Mika Taanila’s solo exhibition “In Between the Plates” will offer an insight into the body of works that meet and intersect in the area of visual and sound research, from status and displacement of the media image to the emulation of the media environment of the human life, its coherency and its dispersion. Catalog of the exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Podroom Gallery, March-April 2021, published by Cultural Center of Belgrade
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Mika Taanila’s solo exhibition “In Between the Plates” will offer an insight into the body of works which meet and intersect in the area of visual and sound research, from status and displacement of the media image, to the emulation of the media environement of the human life, its coherency and its dispersion. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Podroom Gallery, March-April 2021, published by Cultural Center of Belgrade
in multiple layers since 2009, consisting of performances, delegated performances, performance art workshops and an online platform, including contributions by over 170 individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists, mainly identifying themselves as women from diverse backgrounds.Within this project, we embody and enact some of everyday-life’s activities that thematise displacement, known to migrants, refugees, and the itinerant artists traveling the world to earn their living. Those performances deal with migration issues, gender democracy, feminism, gentrification, inclusion, power relations and vulnerability, particularly concerning the female and transgender bodies, an aspect that figured prominently in the past almost three decades of my art practice. With this project, on one side, we are investigating privilege by making a distinction between working mobility, forced or desired migration, and how arbitrary laws may apply, and on the other side,
exploring diverse public spaces and the invisibility of certain groups within them. In the frame of this project, in which I apply feminist emancipatory methodologies of artistic and community practices, I conducted numerous workshops globally where the participants are selected by open call. Individual and group artworks and interventions are developed and produced in this frame. The development of collaboration within the group and forming of a community are very precious processes as well as the further communication with a wide audience that we meet on the streets, and targeted audiences in the venues where presentations, exhibitions and discussions take place.