Ana Hoffner ex- Prvulovic* films, installations, performances and texts offer an aesthetic and political redefinition of gendered relations – especially in the realms of memory and identity politics at work in recent history and in the frame of contemporary visual production. Specifically, she focuses in her performative investigations on moments of queerness and non-alignment in both colonial and fascist regimes of power.
The publication documents for the first time the work of the artist to date, in particular her* most important previous projects are translated into book format: Freud Film, Non-aligned relatives, The Bacha Posh Project, Private View and Active Intolerance.
In Freud Film, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* deals with the unconscious within the development of Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and tackles the racialized and heteropatriarchal dimension of its concept of “alterity”, which is foundational to the constitution of a modern “European identity” – based, actually, on the exclusion of others. Non-alignment as a geopolitical reality and as a concept – a political and cultural refusal to align to certain normative models and behaviors – recurs often in the artist’s work. Non-aligned Relatives is a work constellation in which she* investigates diverse aspects of non-alignment, on political, cultural, and psychoanalytical levels, especially also linking it to formations of queer kinship, a strategy which continues in The Bacha Posh Project.
The series Private View tackles investment in art institutions from the weapons industry, hedgefund companies, and investors of Nazi heritage, thus, in a self-reflexive movement, questioning the capacity of the art field itself to welcome, support, and stand for minoritarian alternatives and non-aligned thought. In Active Intolerance, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s research tackles diverse forms of exploitation of labor in enclosed environments, namely the factory and the prison. The artist once again investigates the liberal and capitalist political project and its relentless construction of, on the one hand, working, consuming, complying, and reproducing bodies and, on the other, of those, who are to be exploited.
ISBN: ISBN 978-1-915609-11-3
The Queerness of Memory proposes ways of remembering a past that cannot be clearly seen, one which is loaded with affective confusion, historical disorientation and the desire to return to that which still hurts. Ana Hoffner's series of art works and writings that are assembled in this book explore the politics of trauma and post '89 memory through the lens of queerness.
How to give a post-memorial account based on non-biological transnational kinship relations? How to interrogate images of war from a distance? The author challenges the notions that fantasy and memory are exclusively imagined or remembered scenarios: facing the trauma of others, when it is not directly experienced but transferred through documents, reports or narratives, requires further processes of dis/identification and performative practices like retelling, rereading, restaging, looking or imagining. By experimenting with techniques that stem from the reservoir of unconscious visual impressions, the book opens up questions about the embodied structure of memory, refusing the supposed dichotomy of war and peace time.
Publisher: b_books
152 pages
14cm × 24cm
Format: Paperback
2018
ISBN: 9783942214261
Contributions for Catalogues and Books
Check Instead: The Colonial Matrix of Power!. In: Utopia of Alliances, Conditions of Impossibilities and the Vocabulary of Decoloniality, Ed.: The Editorial Group for Writing Insurgent Geneologies, Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2013 (with Ivana Marjanovic, Miltiadis Gerothanasis and Marissa Lobo), p. 148 - 155
Wissensdramatisierung - Sprechstück. In: Diktatorpuppe zerstört, Schaden gering - Kunst und Geschichtspolitik im Postnazismus, Ed.: Lisa Bolyos/Katharina Morawek, Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag 2012, p. 340 - 341
Transition: Knowledge, Migration and Difference. In: Are you talking to me? Ed.: H.arta/Katharina Morawek, Vienna: Löcker Verlag 2008, p. 12 - 17
Gazimestan 08. In: Exhibition catalogue, 49th October Salon. Artist-Citizen, Contextual Art Practices, Cultural Centre Beograd 2008, p. 208 - 209
Contributions for Journals and Magazines
Wo Kunst Geschehen kann - Die frühen Jahre des CalArts. In: springerin, issue 4, winter 2020.
VALIE EXPORT: Collection Care / Hommage à VALIE EXPORT. In: Camera Austria International, issue 152, 2020.
The Availability of the East. A Conversation with Sónia Melo and Flavia Matei, conducted by Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*. In: thirsty for words, Kunsthalle Vienna, 2020.
Hans Haacke - All Connected. In: springerin, issue 2, spring 2020.
Excerps from ‘The Queerness of Memory’. In: The Large Glass. Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory, No. 25/26, 2018, p. 118 - 128
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985. In: springerin, issue 4, autumn 2018, p. 65 - 67
Interview with school (Yasmina Haddad, Andrea Lumplecker). In: version, Nr. 3, 2017, p. 31 - 32
Ein kobaltblauer Teller. In: Theater der Zeit. scores 12/14. Opening (Stadt) Parcours, No.12, December 2014, p. 4
After the Transformation (Transcript of a video). In: arta - revista de arte vizuale, No.11, 2014, p. 54 - 55
(Post)koloniale Sexualitäten, queere Aktionen - Assemblagen visueller und diskursiver (Wissens)Produktionen im Prozess der Europäisierung. http://eipcp.net/projects/creatingworlds/hoffner/de
Performative Praktiken als queer migrantische Überlebensstrategien - Transkript einer Präsentation an der UdK, Berlin. In: Ve.schheft, No. 5, April 2012, p. 2 - 3
Celebrations of collapse: Some notes on Ivan Jurica’s film 1989 - 2009: Look Back! Boys from Town Healing the Grief of Beautiful Girls. In: Your periphery is my center, Lost in Transition, Ed.: Rael Artel, July - August 2011, p. 12 - 17
Check instead: the Colonial Matrix of Power. In: Kulturrisse - Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik, No.1 2010 (with Ivana Marjanovic)
Movement, privatized. In: Reartikulacija - Artistic, Political, Theoretical, Discursive Platform, No. 6 2009
Bewegung, privatisiert. In: Bildpunkt - Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst, Praxistheorien, Herbst 2009, p. 12
Hunde, die bellen... Keine Geschichten über MIgration. In: Kulturrisse - Zeitschrift für radikaldemokratische Kulturpolitik, No. 4 2008, p. 64 - 68
Moebius. Self-production in the framework of the Working Grant, Vienna, 2008
Panic: Perverted. In: Reartikulacija - Artistic, Political, Theoretical, Discursive Platform, No. 4 2008
Ich möchte eine Deutsche sein. In: Malmoe, Neue Galerie, No. 31 2006, p. 8 - 9
Love manifesto. In: Prologue Magazine - Performative and (trans)Gender Politics & Migratory Bodies, No. 2 Spring 2006, p. 3
Nicht-ganz/nicht-richtig. Interview with Marina Gržinić part 1. In: Sic! Forum für feministische Gangarten, No. 56 März 2006, p. 14 - 15
Das ganze Setting ist falsch. Interview with Marina Gržinić Teil 2. In: Sic! Forum für feministische Gangarten, No. 57 Juni 2006, p. 26 - 27
Wiener Ansichten - Fußgängerzone Favoritenstraße: Bildsprache des veränderten öffentlichen Raumes. In: Sic! Forum für feministische Gangarten, No. 55 Dezember 2005, p. 28
Zwischen Balkannächten und Turbofolk - Die osteuropäische Musikszene ist Transportmittel traditioneller Rollenstereotypien. In: Sic! Forum für feministische Gangarten, No. 54 Oktober 2005, p. 22 - 23
Ein paar Geschichten mehr - Kunsthalle Wien: Sind Künstlerinnen aus anderen Kulturkreisen Lückenbüßerinnen? In: Sic! Forum für feministische Gangarten, No. 53 Juni 2005, p. 28 - 29