Screening and discussion: Marta Popivoda, Landscapes of Resistance

Marta Popivoda (b. 1982, Yugoslavia) is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher living and working between Berlin and Belgrade. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. Popivoda approaches them from a feminist and queer perspective. In her recent work, she uses landscape dramaturgy, feminist storytelling, and radical slowness principles to produce verbal-images and scenes of (antifascist) memory. Her first feature documentary, Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at many international film festivals, and became part of the permanent collection of MoMA New York. Her second feature documentary, Landscapes of Resistance, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, was presented at more than fifty film festivals worldwide, winning several awards. Her work has also been featured in art institutions such as Tate Modern London, M HKA Antwerp, Museum of Modern Art + MSUM Ljubljana, and most recently, at the 12th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 14, and the 59th Belgrade Biennale. She regularly teaches film at SNDO, the University of Arts in Amsterdam, and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Popivoda cherishes collective practice in artmaking and research, and she was part of the Walking Theory collective for many years. Today, she often collaborates with theorist and dramaturge Ana Vujanović in the production of films, video installations, and performances.

Ana Janevski is a curator in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York where she has been working on the performance program since 2011. There she co-organized the exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (with Thomas Lax and Martha Joseph, 2018/19), among many other exhibitions and projects. She is currently working on the retrospective of Joan Jonas scheduled for spring 2024. From 2007 to 2011, she held the position of curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where she curated, among many other projects, the large-scale exhibition and accompanying publication As Soon As I Open My Eyes I See a Film, on the topic of Yugoslav experimental film and art from the 1960s and 1970s (2011). She regularly contributes to and co-edits publications on performance, the body, and the history of art in Eastern Europe. Janevski lives and works in New York.