ANTIFASCIST SPIRITS

NATASA MACKULIJAK
(born in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a performer, multimedia artist, social worker, curator and cultural producer.She is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with the thesis On Historical Continuities between Anti-Fascist Women's Action and Feminist Performance Art in the Former Yugoslavia.For three years (2016/17/18) she co-curated and co-managed the Transcultural Festival for Art and Activism-Wienwoche where she is currently engaged as executive director.

In this lecture-performance, artist, curator and activist Natasa Mackuljak draws connection between women’s anti-fascist resistance during World War II and contemporary feminist discourse in the region of the former Yugoslavia. Mackuljak’s narrative exploits historical events and her personal ancestral and feminist background. By combining performance, personal narrative as testimony and pedagogical education, Mackuljak makes an anti-fascist and feminist intervention in an Austrian art institution and turns the audience into her accomplices.