Jelena Sofronijevic

(inactive account; find me on Instagram @empirelinespodcast)
producer, curator, writer, researcher
art ✏culture

[Jelena Sofronijevic @jelsofron]

'she finds herself, despite being born after Yugoslavia ceased to exist, drawn to its blended nationalism'

https://t.co/o1F0FyMkhV

listen live on 2 September.

(and thanks @gilesedwards and @PASnowdon for producing my @BBCRadio4 debut on Serbia, Yugoslavia - and Telford)

[Jelena Sofronijevic @jelsofron]

wonderful to work with Christine Wilson, Ariadna Tsenina & co., and super-producer Emma Crampton, on Our World Connected, the British Council podcast on cultures and cultural relations.

listen 🔈https://t.co/gZTjpaZ19c

@BritishCouncil @SonicWhirls @InsightBritish
@messageheard

[British Council @BritishCouncil]

✨ #OurWorldConnectedPodcast is here!

🎙️ Join host Christine Wilson @SonicWhirls and guests as we examine the most pressing issues of our time and uncover the human stories behind them.

Follow us for insights on culture, connection, and empowerment: https://t.co/wU3Z0Txbfk

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*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE*

Artist Zineb Sedira records cultural and postcolonial connections between Algeria, France, Italy, and the UK from the 1960s, featuring radical films from her personal archive, in Dreams Have No Titles (2022).

listen+follow 🔊 https://t.co/WuEPVdYJXG

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interested in the (unexpected?) links between art and Empires?

stay tuned - and onLINE - for a brand new podcast.

launching 1 October 2020.

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🗣️I wanted to free Giolo from the archives.

drawing on John Savage's etching of the 'Painted Prince', a 17th century slave, Pio Abad shares how his contemporary practice is anchored around the body.

listen now on the EMPIRE LINES podcast, and Instagram ↓https://t.co/JQtaqlhXFr

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@walk_sound @walkerspectacle @TPGallery @soheinishino @apjjf @Soc_of_Authors @GBSasakawa @britishlibrary ‘The process of the work includes the physicality of walking.’

see Diorama Map Dundee (2023), Sohei Nishino’s commission for Photo City at the V&A, then hear more on historicity Tokyo 🔈https://t.co/nCru3pRyiu

@soheinishino @VADundee @AshmoleanMuseum
#podcast #audiowalkingtours

[Jelena Sofronijevic @jelsofron]

interested in how cities came to be the way they are?

historicity is a new series of audio walking tours as podcasts, recorded on location, in real time.

series 1 - london - launches 16 August 2022.

follow on Instagram for more:
https://t.co/LIzW4QHk7E

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@walk_sound @walkerspectacle @TPGallery @soheinishino @apjjf @Soc_of_Authors @GBSasakawa @britishlibrary if you missed our online walking tour of Tokyo, you can now catch up on the Society of Authors’ Vimeo.

📽️https://t.co/5VS9aGhRXE

see the thread for the other Japan Week events - and we look forward to the Translation Prizes’ return in 2024!

@Soc_of_Authors @GBSasakawa

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a (bird) call out 🪹 we are looking to borrow five iPhones for our forthcoming exhibition at Southcombe Barn on Dartmoor, featuring Hanna Tuulikki’s Avi-Alarm filters. we can collect in Glasgow, London, Plymouth, Devon, and southwest England 🪺 support an artist (and curators!)

[Hanna Tuulikki @HannaTuulikki]

📣Klaxon! 📣i-Phone CALL OUT! 🤳 Do you have an old i-phone that you don’t use? Would you be willing to donate it to an arts project?

I’m looking for five recent-ish i-phones to use in an upcoming exhibition to present my recent Avi-Alarm filters as an interactive installation.

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@jocpublication tracing Yugoslav/diaspora artists in the UK often means scanning archives, bookshelves, and captions for names ending 'ic'. on a too-brief research trip to Ireland - for IMMA's superb Self-Determination exhibition - I was surprised to find mine, at The Library Project in Dublin!

[Jelena Sofronijevic @jelsofron]

what do sharks, whales, and mice tails reveal about Yugoslav socialism?

@PolStudiesAssoc have published an extract from my dissertation on political satire in Tito's Yugoslavia: https://t.co/OZJOqHSQt9)

(find out more about #PSAUG2020: https://t.co/E3yh9Wxzg7)

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so excited to see my work on Yugoslav socialism and satire in @jocpublication’s Humour edition.

you can order physical copies (!) from: https://t.co/Mgaqt0amjT

print only, and we can’t promise your postal service will provide Tito stamps; for an extract, scroll up this thread.

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@RosCarter2 @JHansardGallery @kw_berlin @BrandtsOdense @smkmuseum @InuitArtFdn @hakaimagazine @nordicsinfo @Tate_StIves @RAMMuseum @BaffinWest @CanadaCouncil it’s also the final day to see Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Our Mountains Are Painted On Glass at DCA, before it travels to @theBluecoat.

go behind-the-scenes - and find Candice Lin, a fellow Gasworks artist, in Scotland - on the EMPIRE LINES Instagram 📷 https://t.co/M2WfZj2boC

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@RosCarter2 @JHansardGallery @kw_berlin @BrandtsOdense @smkmuseum @InuitArtFdn @hakaimagazine @nordicsinfo @Tate_StIves @RAMMuseum and from Pia Arke: Silences and Stories, and Arctic Hysteria, EMPIRE LINES recommends:

- Outi Pieski, @Tate_StIves
- Michelle Williams Gamaker: The Silver Wave, @RAMMuseum
- Shuvinai Ashoona: When I Draw, The Perimeter (@BaffinWest @CanadaCouncil)

links in the episode notes.

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Curators Ros Carter and Sofie Krogh Christensen chart Pia Arke’s photo-activism across the Arctic region, Indigenous and Inuit experiences in the 20th century, and reconstruct the artist’s camera obscura.

listen+follow🔊https://t.co/hWnjH90f9D

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a great evening with Drs. Tanja Petrović, Elena Stavrevska, Jessie Barton-Hronešová, Nicholas Lackenby, and Jelena Ćalić, marking the publication of Tanja’s landmark text about the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), available as an open access (free) book too.
@EBStavrevska @YessinkaH

[UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies @UCLSSEES]

Join us on Wednesday for this book launch of Tanja Petrović's 'Utopia of the Uniform', which explores how the compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav People’s Army created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines.

🗓️ 20 March at 6pm
➡️ https://t.co/m2wo5R3WJz

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@LeedsUniAHC @ThamesHudsonUSA @FilmVidUmbrella @balticgateshead @kettlesyard @AutographABP @newartgallery @newlynexchange @TheWomensArt @Tate @1lubaina join EMPIRE LINES in conversation with curators and artists from the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) at Shoreditch Arts Club in London.

📆Thursday 21/03 (free exhibition entry on Wednesday)
🎟️ tickets @AASchool @shoreditcharts_
https://t.co/GuWef78xTL

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@LeedsUniAHC @ThamesHudsonUSA @FilmVidUmbrella @balticgateshead @kettlesyard @AutographABP @newartgallery @newlynexchange @TheWomensArt @Tate recorded at Griselda's recent HackelBury Fine Art exhibition, this episode looks at Coral Woodbury's Revised Edition, now on view. she layers Janson's History of Art with the women omitted from the book's first printings - like Lubaina Himid (@1lubaina), of the last EMPIRE LINES.

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@lisaandersonaa @DulwichGallery @bbgconnects @blackbritishart @bcaheritage @KHGallery_ @RecessedSpace ✏️Implicit in Soulscapes is the unique position of diaspora artists to speak to shared histories, landscapes, and environments.

my article features in The Recess, @willjennings80’s new newsletter. more on Substack and Instagram 📷 https://t.co/Rpb5hEUiPg

https://t.co/0QiKlmn0hz

[Recessed Space @RecessedSpace]

The Recess 003 is out.
Read & Subscribe at: https://t.co/twVueyYdpK

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on diasporic relationships with land, and art - I write about Soulscapes, Lisa Anderson’s exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, for recessed space.

✏️ https://t.co/d9psyJvlvp

@lisaandersonaa @DulwichGallery @bbgconnects @blackbritishart @bcaheritage @KHGallery_ @RecessedSpace

[Jelena Sofronijevic @jelsofron]

a truly great day in the archives with Richard Demarco and Terry Ann Newman; we passed almost all of four hours in the Polish Room, and found another (rope) line between Magdalena Abakanowicz, Yugoslavia, and Scotland.

more photographs at @Summerhallery in Edinburgh, and online.

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Art historian and Professor Griselda Pollock traces the memories of contemporary artist women as Sutapa Biswas, one of her students in the 1980s, and entanglements in feminist, queer, and postcolonial thinking.

listen+follow🔊https://t.co/8R66e17sJm

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Extractivism/Activism starts today, with talks and performances live at the Building Centre, and online via the Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph.

also join me, Marie Petersmann, Radha D’Souza, Jonas Staal, and Marie Smith, on the EMPIRE LINES Instagram 📷 https://t.co/IyVYJpAB8V

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🚨join me, @MariePetersmann, @radhadsouza, and Marie Smith in conversation about CLIMATE CRIMES at Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction, a conference from @PaulMellonCentr and @AutographABP.

13-14 March, @BuildingCentre, London🎟️
https://t.co/mYF7jXjkvO

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@1lubaina @UCLan @Holburne @InsideJigsaw @TextileBiennial @HollybushG @balticgateshead @MOSTYN_Wales_ @sharjahart @ICALondon @TheMosaicRooms @tomjeffreys @_TheWhitechapel @OsheenSiva @NTUBonGallery a look back to the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL) where, recently, I was fortunate to be invited to guest lecture with Partha Mitter about modernism, primitivism, and intergenerational approaches to decentring art history.

more to follow soon!