{"product_id":"contemporary-unconscious-9781915609113","title":"Contemporary \/ Unconscious","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn aesthetic and political redefinition of gendered relations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAna Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*'s films, installations, performances, and texts offer an aesthetic and political redefinition of gendered relations--especially in the realms of memory and identity politics at work in recent history and in the frame of contemporary visual production. Specifically, she focuses in her performative investigations on moments of queerness and non-alignment in both colonial and fascist regimes of power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe publication documents for the first time the work of the artist to date, in particular her* most important previous projects are translated into book format: \u003ci\u003eFreud Film\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNon-aligned relatives\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bacha Posh Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrivate View\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eActive Intolerance\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFreud Film\u003c\/i\u003e, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* deals with the unconscious within the development of Freud's psychoanalytical theory and tackles the racialized and heteropatriarchal dimension of its concept of \"alterity,\" which is foundational to the constitution of a modern \"European identity\"--based, actually, on the exclusion of others. Non-alignment as a geopolitical reality and as a concept--a political and cultural refusal to align to certain normative models and behaviors--recurs often in the artist's work. \u003ci\u003eNon-aligned Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e is a work constellation in which she* investigates diverse aspects of non-alignment, on political, cultural, and psychoanalytical levels, especially also linking it to formations of queer kinship, a strategy which continues in \u003ci\u003eThe Bacha Posh\u003c\/i\u003e Project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe series \u003ci\u003ePrivate View\u003c\/i\u003e tackles investment in art institutions from the weapons industry, hedgefund companies, and investors of Nazi heritage, thus, in a self-reflexive movement, questioning the capacity of the art field itself to welcome, support, and stand for minoritarian alternatives and non-aligned thought. In \u003ci\u003eActive Intolerance\u003c\/i\u003e, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*'s research tackles diverse forms of exploitation of labor in enclosed environments, namely the factory and the prison. The artist once again investigates the liberal and capitalist political project and its relentless construction of, on the one hand, working, consuming, complying, and reproducing bodies and, on the other, of those, who are to be exploited. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Faucheret, Sara Reisman, Marlene Rigler \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopublished by Kunsthalle Wien \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis publication includes a folded A2 poster: SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together! \/ Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta \u0026amp; John Arthur Peetz), We The Enemy (poster), 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915609113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120","brand":"Ana Hoffner Ex-Prvulovic*","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42896198631605,"sku":"9781915609113","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a650b4c2-170a-4779-8273-8b94575445f5.jpg?v=1686101505","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/contemporary-unconscious-9781915609113","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}