ISSN:
1474-4740
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Cultural geographies
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Sage
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 24, No. 1 (2017), p. 171-180
DDC:
910
Abstract:
This essay on the work of the Bosnian artist Mladen Miljanović, born in Zenica, Yugoslavia, in 1981, is wrought around an account of the divided place in which his art is mobilised. Following a short military term, Miljanović enrolled at the Academy of Arts, in Banja Luka, where he still lives. A potent opposition to a divisive ethno-nationalist politics ever-present in the post-conflict, post-socialist, transition era of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Miljanović deploys what he calls an artistic-military practice. Incorporating cartographic and military surveying techniques learnt at a reserve officer military school, Miljanović deconstructs his own soldierly past and interrogates, through his artistic-military practice, an ethno-nationalist militarised Bosnia-Herzegovina. I focus in the main here on the artist’s recent attempt to represent post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina at the 55th Biennale di Venezia, a granite triptych entitled, The Garden of Delights.
Note:
Copyright: © The Author(s) 2016
DOI:
10.1177/1474474016647372
URL:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474474016647372
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1856042701
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