TANJA OSTOJIĆ: Mis(s)placed Women? 2009-2022 A Collaborative Art Project

TANJA OSTOJIĆ

Mis(s)placed Women? 

2009-2022 

A Collaborative Art Project

Reader in English*
48 pages, 4-colours
85 colour images

33 x 23,5 cm

Softcover

Edited by Tanja Ostojić

With essays and texts by Teresa Albor, Helen Averley, Gorana Bačevac, Marta Nitecka Barche, Gaby Bila-Günther, Dagmara Bilon, Mia Bradić, Azad Colemêrg, Luciana Damiani, Jelena Dinić, Nazlı Durak, Gizem Epifani, Kathryn Fischer, Li Fu, Hoang Tran Hieu Hanh, Selma Hekim, Michelle Lacombe, Susan Merrick, Irena Mirković, Persefoni Myrtsou, Tanja Ostojić, Performistanbul (Simge Burhanoğlu, Azra İşmen), Vanessa Ponte, Rea Ramjohn, Bahar Seki, Sabbi Senior, Tan Tan, Tanya Ury, Bojana Videkanić, Hyla Willis, Arzu Yayıntaş, Gülhatun Yıldırım.

Copy editing English by Aya Labanieh

Copy editing Turkish by Asena Günal

Designed by Eli Bensusan
Printed and bound by Sena Ofset, Istanbul, Turkey
First published in 2022 by Depo Istanbul and Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul Turkey.

EUR 10** (pick up in Berlin / + shipping costs Germany 2 Euro / +worldwide 4 Euro)

*This publication is as well available in Turkish language.
Please order at: tanjaostojicart(AT)gmail.com

This publication is a reader based on “Mis(s)placed Women?” (2009-2022), a collaborative art project by Tanja Ostojić, published in English and Turkish to accompany the exhibition at Depo Istanbul, September 15–October 28, 2022. Due to constraints of space, only a selection of the artworks and texts have been included.

“Mis(s)placed Women?”, is a collaborative, multi-layered art project that I have been developing since 2009, consisting of solo and group performances, delegated performances, performance art workshops, and an online platform that includes contributions by over 170 individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists who identify as women from diverse backgrounds. The project’s participants embody and enact some of everyday-life’s activities that thematise the displacement known to migrants, refugees, and itinerant artists traveling the world to earn their living. The performances deal with migration issues, gender equality, climate change, feminism, queerness, gentrification, inclusion, accessibility, power relations, and vulnerability, particularly as they relate to women and nonbinary people, an aspect that figured prominently in the past almost three decades of my artistic practice. While investigating privilege by distinguishing between working mobility, forced or desired migration, and how arbitrary laws apply to moving bodies, Mis(s)placed Women? also explores diverse public spaces and the invisibility of certain groups within them, using feminist emancipatory methodologies and artistic community-building practices. I have conducted numerous workshops across the world where the participants are selected by open call. Individual and group artworks and interventions are developed and produced in this frame. We highly value collaboration within the group, the forming of a community, the further communication with the random audiences that we meet on the streets and with the targeted audiences at presentations, exhibitions, and discussions. Mis(s)placed Women? workshops apply the principles of Art as Social Practice and explore a variety of public spaces and the possibilities for temporary interventions in them, empowering participants via a kind of master-class block seminar—a laboratory outside of official educational institution, so to say—and developing new collective and individual works…

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THE CORONAVILLE ARTIST COLORING BOOK

THE CORONAVILLE

ARTIST COLORING BOOK

A First Wave Quaranzine / Spring 2020

Curated By Matthew Rose 

Essay By Dan Cameron

Coronaville Artists:

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Allan Bealy 

Anke Becker 

Ricardo Bloch 

Mike Cockrill 

Keith Donovan 

Ron English 

Grace Graupe-Pillard 

John Himmelfarb 

Sophie Oldsman 

Tanja Ostojić & Leonard Rych 

Rick Prol 

Matthew Rose 

Trey Speegle 

Lori Taschler 

Caterina Verde 

Gloria Zein

Featuring 18 artists and 46 images to colour

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Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić

Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić
English
160 pages, 4-colour
68 colour images, 21 b&w images
24 x 19,4 cm
Edited by Tanja Ostojić
With essays and texts by Adèle Eisenstein, Lois Keidan, Dr Suzana Milevska, and Tanja Ostojić
Copy editing by Dr Harriet Curtis and Adèle Eisenstein
bound, softcover with flaps
Designed by Erik Dettwiler
Printed and bound by Publikum, Belgrade, Serbia
First published in 2018 by Live Art Development Agency, London, UK and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
ISBN: 978-0-9935611-3-9
ISBN: 978-953-8107-14-6
EUR 17 + sending costs

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In Belgrade the book can be purchased in the Beopolis knjižara: Makedonska 22, hol Doma omladine, 11000 Beograd

Tanja Ostojić is an extraordinary and influential Berlin-based, Serbian artist who, since 1994, has created research-led, performative projects that engage with issues of gender politics and feminism, of migration and displacement, and of labour. Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić brings these strands of her practice together in a multi-disciplinary, process-based, transnational project from a network of women around the world all named Tanja Ostojić.   – Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency, London

Most importantly, although transindividuality was always inscribed, its potentiality became visible and comprehensible only through the ‘transformative encounters’, the mutual introductions, and social exchanges during the one-on-one conversations, co-production processes, and public events of the Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić project. Thus a new sentiment of solidarity with the same (the name), but different (subjectivity and personality) has emerged. It can be read between the lines of this hypertext, the Lexicon with only one entry: Tanja Ostojić, but with so many homonyms and a number of complex cross-references and interpretations that together create an ethnographic and psycho-geographic hypertext available for further research.
– Dr Suzana Milevska, art theorist and curator, Skopje

This publication is based upon the Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić (2011-17), an interdisciplinary participatory research art project by Tanja Ostojić that included ethnographical and artistic research, five creative workshops, a number of public events, one group performance, and two exhibitions involving more then 30 women:

Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić, MoCAB Salon, Belgrade, 6 June – 31 July 2017.

Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić, MMSU, Atelier Kamov, Rijeka, 11 August – 7 September 2017.

While Lexicon seems to be a part and parcel of what is termed socially- engaged art practices, its extended chronological commitment, and commitment to actual, as opposed to forced or artificially enacted social relations we often find in socially-engaged artwork, it is very much outside of the popular contemporary artistic forms. Women’s commitments to each other, friendships and support that took place (and are ongoing) in the Lexicon contravene oppressive and exploitative forms of labour encountered on the margins of the Western world.  – Review in Journal Sociologija by Dr Bojana Videkanić 

PerformingBorders conversations on live art, crossings, Europe, Interview with Tanja Ostojić by Alessandra Cianetti published on June 14, 2018

Download for FREE: “Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić and Feminism in Transition” by Bojana Videkanic, pp: 142-162 essay in English, published by Journal Sociologija (2018).

About the Book by Matthew Rose. 

Audio recording of the book launch event at LADA, London. 

Review on Seecult after the Book launch event at Goethe Institute in Belgrade.

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Tanja Ostojić´s work in The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin

I am pleased that my work “Politics of Queer Curatorial Positions: After Rosa von Praunheim, Fassbinder and Bridge Markland” (in collaboration with Dr M. Grzinic) has been included in the “Homosexuality_ies” exhibition that opens today in The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. The exhibition is covering a total area of 1600 square meters, and documents 150 years of the history, politics and culture of homosexual women and men in Germany. The exhibition shows how same-sex sexuality and non-conformist gender identities have been criminalized through legislation, pathologized in medicine and excluded from society. It traces the legislative development of Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which made “homosexual acts” punishable by law. Paragraph 175 took effect in 1872, underwent massive harshening in the Nazi era and was retained thereafter, being definitively voided in 1994. In addition to social repression, the exhibition also addresses the liberation movements of gay men and lesbian women, movements which took on a new dynamic after the legal liberalization in the 1960ies and transformed society‘s understanding of sex and gender identity.

Works by international artists such as Monica Bonvicini, Louise Bourgeois, Heather Cassils, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Nicole Eisenman, Lee Lozano, Jeanne Mammen, Zanele Muholi, Henrik Olesen, Tanja Ostojić and Andy Warhol comment on the exhibition‘s themes in a variety of ways.

The section of the exhibition on view at the Deutsches Historisches Museum focuses on historical developments in the fields of society, politics, art, law and science since the “discovery” of homosexuality in the mid-19th century. The section of the exhibition on view at the Schwules Museum* consists of contemporary artworks and addresses the present and future of gender codes and sexualities.

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https://www.dhm.de/en/ausstellungen/homosexuality-ies.html

After Courbet / L´origine du monde, signed poster

Tanja Ostojić: After Courbet / L´origine du monde

Signed poster, 600 x 847 mm

Photo: David Rych

EUR 20 for the poster without signature + sending costs

EUR 100 for the poster signed by Tanja Ostojić + sending costs Europe wide

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Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić

Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić  
Deutsch / German
32 pages, 4-colour
15 colour images
23,5 x 16,5 cm
softcover
Essay: Dr Suzana Milevska
Introduction: Tanja Ostojić
Translation: Nikolaus G. Schneider
Design: Edi Winarni
Publisher: Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin 2014
ISBN 978-3-89462-258-9
EUR 6 + sending costs

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From the introduction by Tanja Ostojić:

Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić is an interdisciplinary, participatory research project, in which I utilise on-line social media networks and collaborate with women of different generations, diverse social backgrounds and different nationalities with whom I shares the same first name and the family name. Via personalised sociological research and direct social exchange I´ve created maps that document how approximately 30 name sisters have been migrating and what identity issues, gender issues and labour conditions concern us.

In the frame of the project, Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić, I had an opportunity to meet a number of my name sisters in Lörrach & Berlin (Germany), Belgrade & Kikinda (Serbia), Niksić (Montenegro), Split (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Banjaluka & Bratunac (Bosnia), etc. We socialised over a cup of coffee, took a walk together, cook or eaten together, visited our favourite place, exchanged favourite recipes and engaged in conversation. I have organised and was leading several events with some of my name-sisters such as: Creative workshop in terracotta, hosted by the international symposium of sculpture TERRA (Kikinda, Serbia 2013) and the Talk Show “Lexicon of Tanja Ostojić”, HKW Berlin…

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Integration Impossible? The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić

Integration Impossible?
The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojić
English
264 pages, 4-colour
126 colour images, 6 b&w images
23,5 x 16 cm
bound, softcover
Design: New Collectivism
With essays by Pamela Allara, Manuela Bojadžijev, Adele Eisenstein, Rune Gade, Marina Gržinić, Suzana Milevska, Tanja Ostojić, Judith Surkis and Šefik Tatlić.
Edited by: Marina Gržinić, Adele Eisenstein and Tanja Ostojić
Publisher: Argobooks, Berlin 2009
ISBN 978-3-9812552-6-3
EUR 27 + sending costs

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Tanja Ostojić (*1972 Yugoslavia) is known for her political performances involving her own social figure. Her recent works, such as Looking for a Husband with EU-Passport, Crossing Borders Series and Naked Life, focus on various aspects of migration, but also include feminist ideas. The texts and images in this book are composed by outstanding Balkan, EU and US theorists and expand on the themes explored in this body of work, supplying additional insights. The book comprises colour images, written descriptions and commentaries on the three larger projects by the artist, as well as transcripts from discussions carried out in the framework of the actual works.

“The real scandal of her work lay not in its sexual explicitness, but in how it located sex at the centre of European politics.” – Judith Surkis

“The expelled, the displaced, the ghettoised, the imprisoned, the immigrated, the war refugees and the Roma: all these marginalised and excluded people treated as “homo sacer” are subjects of Tanja Ostojić’s interest.” – Suzana Milevska

Tanja Ostojić: Strategies of Success

Tanja Ostojić
Strategies of Success
Book in English with translations to Serbian and French language
With essays by Dr Marina Grzinic, Dr Suzana Milevska and Tanja Ostojić
62 images
144 Pages
21,5 x 15cm, Paperback
Publishers: La Box, Bourges, France & SKC, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004

Design: David Rych
ISBN: 2-910164-32-2
EUR 12 + sending costs
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