ACFNY SUPPORTED | ARTIST DIALOGUE | A Conversation with Milica Tomić

Through performance, video, and collaborative workshops, artist Milica Tomić finds strategies to include critical voices in the memories and memorials of historical events. She proposes that social sculpture as envisioned by Joseph Beuys is the key method in this endeavor. In conversation with Andreas Stadler, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Tomić discusses her methodology and her specific interest in how anti-fascist resistance is documented, recalled, and lived daily. They will be joined by Joshua Decter, a critic, curator, and art historian.

One of Milica Tomić’s video works was featured in our previous exhibition, Serbia – Frequently Asked Questions. The piece showed the artist, holding a Kalashnikov rifle in one hand and a plastic supermarket bag in the other, as she walks around Belgrade unnoticed, visiting places of armed resistance to the Nazis.

Joshua Decter is a contributor to Artforum, Afterall, and other periodicals, and has organized exhibitions at PS1 in New York, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Apex Art in New York, The Kunsthalle Vienna, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, among other institutions. Decter recently reviewed Serbia – Frequently Asked Questions for Artforum.

This event is co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

Milica Tomić lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. She was a resident artist at ArtPace in 2004, received the DAAD artist fellowship in 2006, and was included in Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum in 2008.

VENUE
The James Gallery
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Free Admission. No reservations necessary.
Please visit CUNY website for venue information, and the Graduate Center website for further details.