REVISITING THE PAST, (RE)IMAGINING THE FUTURE. Three Case Studies on Post Yugoslavia: Articulations of Post Yugoslav National Identities at the 55th Venice Biennale

摘要

Using three different national representations from the 55th Venice Biennale as case studies, this thesis investigates the complexities of post Yugoslav national identities as articulated through different positions and experiences of their makers. Through the examination of individual local and state narratives across selected post Yugoslav states (Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo), I ask whether we can begin to see a larger picture of the region in question, in the process that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak refers to as “learning to speak to”.