Transpersonal: Lina Džuverović

‘On the Impossibility and Inevitability of Representation’

In this talk curator and academic Lina Džuverović approaches the theme of transpersonal by investigating ideas of artistic autonomy and national representation. Departing from the term 'soft power' as one of the tools of the nation-building apparatus of the state, the talk focuses on the relationship between ideology and art. We will ask whether it is possible for artistic agency to transcend the discourse of national representation and retain a level of autonomy, existing and circulating on its own terms.

Lina Džuverović is a curator and Lecturer at the Fine Art Department at the University of Reading. Formerly, she was Artistic Director at Calvert 22 Foundation (2011-2014) and Director of Electra, a London-based commissioning organisation, which she co-founded in 2003. She is also a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art and Tate, researching Pop Art in the former Yugoslavia. Selected curatorial projects include Monuments Should Not Be Trusted (Nottingham Contemporary, 2016), Sanja Iveković - Unknown Heroine (South London Gallery and Calvert 22, 2013); IRWIN – Time For A New State & NSK Folk Art (Calvert 22, 2012); 27 Senses (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2010), Favoured Nations, Momentum, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009), Her Noise (South London Gallery, 2005).

Transpersonal: art and life directives is a lecture series on the theory and application of art and design, curated and convened by Dr. Stephen Wilson. It is staged in collaboration with the ICA and the Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon College of Arts postgraduate community at the University of the Arts London.