A Feminist Exploration of Labour in Performance, Sound and Moving Image work in Yugoslav Collectives in 1970s and 1980s

Who does what type of work in collective art-making? Who is seen and who remains invisible? Who tells the story and whose names enter histories? How are different forms of labour valued in collective practice?

These are some of the questions that Lina Dzuverovic's research project 'And Others - The Gendered Practices and Politics of Art Collectives' has been exploring over the past eighteen months through a series of group-authored documents, panel discussions and workshops. This illustrated lecture explored the inner workings and division of labour in collective practice, seeking to highlight inequalities, forms of silencing and marginalising of certain participants, often along gender lines. Drawing on methodologies developed by the And Others network so far, the lecture used performance, moving image and sound networks in Central Eastern Europe in 1970s and 1980s as a case study. The talk centred on Slovenia-based collectives such as OHO/The Sempas Family (1970s) and the multifaceted sound, video and performance outputs by FV112/15, a multimedia platform for the production of alternative forms of culture which embraced the DIY ethos of punk.