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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

EUR 27,80 + transport
ISBN 978-3-9812552-6-3
Design: New Collectivism
Publisher: Argobooks, Berlin 2009

With essays by Pamela Allara, Manuela Bojadžijev, Adele Eisenstein, Rune Gade, Marina Gržinić, Suzana Milevska, Tanja Ostojić, Judith Surkis and Šefik Tatlić

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Tanja Ostojić (*1972 Belgrade) 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

Exhibitions (Selection):
2008–09 Re.act Feminism, Akademie der Künste Berlin
2008 Integration Impossible?, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck;
Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck (A)
2007 Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, NY

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