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https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2021.108.07
Slovenian Art and Culture Fights Against the Janshist Politics in 2020
Petja Grafenauer
; Department for Theory, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
Abstract
The aim of the article is to document and contextualize protest imagery, which appeared in Slovenia in the first half of 2020 through media sources, interviews, and field work. The paper examines how government used the pandemic and its power to try and change the canon of Slovene culture, history, and art. The article focuses on the protests and protest material by artists and other creatives, who joined in the protest movement. It is a contribution to the political and cultural understanding of the processes in Slovenia in 2020–2021. Art, once the “function of the bourgeois consciousness of freedom”, is increasingly losing out under Janez Janša’s third term in office.
Keywords
protests, protest imagery, contemporary art, politics, cultural policy
Hrčak ID:
270743
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Publication date:
1.7.2021.
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