Miško Šuvaković

Miodrag Šuvaković

Full name	Miodrag Šuvaković
Born	February 24, 1954 (1954-02-24) (age 57) Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Era	20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytical aesthetics, Poststructuralism, Critical theory, Discursive analysis, Media studies
Influenced by Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jerko Denegri, Jacques Lacan, Arthur Danto, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Tel Quel, Julia Kristeva, Biljana Tomić, Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Hélène Cixous, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze

Prof. Dr. Miško Šuvaković (Serbian: Мишко Шуваковић) is a contemporary aestheticist, art theorist and conceptual artist born in 1954 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He teaches theory of art and theory of culture in Interdisciplinary Postgraduates Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade.

Biography

He was co-founder and member of conceptual artistic Group 143 (1975 - 1980), and was co-founder and member of informal theoretic and artistic "Community for Space Investigation" (1982–1989). He has participated in TkH – tehory platform from October 2000. From 1988 he is the member of Slovenian Aesthetic Society. In March, 1993 he got PhD degree with theme "Analytical philosophy and Theory in Art" (Faculty of Visual Arts, Belgrade, University of Arts in Belgrade ). He teaches aesthetics and theory of art, Faculty of Music, Belgrade (Professor). He was co-editor of magazine Katalog 143 (Belgrade, 1975–78), Mentalni prostor (Belgrade, 1982-1987), Transkatalog (Novi Sad, 1995-1998), Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory, Belgrade, from 2001), Kultura (Beograd, from 2004), Razlika (Difference, Tuzla, 2002), Anomalija (Novi Sad, 2004), Sarajevske sveske (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Beograd, Skoplje, 2006).

Methodology: Art and Theory

Miško Šuvaković mirrors, indexes, describes and interprets the uncertain but essential relationship between “art” (literature, music, painting, theatre, opera, film) and “theory” here-and-now. In fact, as “theory” he names semantically aimed different effects and appearances of the procedures of creating (making, manufacturing, producing,) art, of delaying the effects of the work of art in speech (parole) and writing (ecriture), of constructing the jargon inside artworlds, the interpolation of voices of criticism into sensually anticipated figures of art, the bordering identities of different “speeches” within social sciences and humanities, the exceptionalities and autonomies of the functions of theory and art, the general interpretative possibilities of philosophy of art, but he names the dramatically contradictious “returns to the body” within classical and outside the contemporary aesthetics, as well. It is indeed question of the identification of a “big” and “difficult” problem, of a polysemantic problem which concerns the relationship between : (a) “texts” about different material formulations (sound musical texts, pictorial painterly texts , audio-visual movie texts, completely corporal-behavioural theatre and performance art texts, or literary texts situated by the writing / ecriture / ), and (b) delaying and transferring texts on thinking, talking and writing about art. By this approach he intend to persevere in the “diadisciplinarity”, in the crossed out or exceeded disciplinarity, which does not allow the objectification of the relationship between “art”, “theory” and “body” into a firm method, but, instead, keeps that method in the state of crisis of heterogeneous events or incidents. The relationship between theory and art “through” his body is the “event” or “incident” of the located representation or presentation.

Books

• 2010 Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek - Prvi tom: Radikalne umetničke prakse, Orion art, Beograd (srp.)
• 2006 Diskurzivna analiza – Prestupi i/ili pristupi ’diskurzivne analize’ filozofiji, poetici, estetici, teoriji i studijama umetnosti i kulture, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd, (srp.)
• 2006 Farenhajt 387 – Teorijske ispovesti, Orpheus, Novi Sad, (srp.)
• 2006 Studije slučaja – Diskurzivna analiza izvođenja identiteta u umetničkim praksama, Mali Nemo, Pančevo, (srp.)
• 2005 Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti, Horetzky, Zagreb, 2005. (hrv.)
• 2005 Mapiranje tijela/tijelom – Zlatko Kopljar [Mapping of the Body/with body], Meandar, Zagreb (hrv. engl.)
• 2004 Politike slikarstva, Obalne galerije, Piran, 2004. (slov.)
• 2003 Impossible Histories – Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-Avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918–1991, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, (sa Dubravkom Đurić) (engl.)
• 2003 Vlasta Delimar - Monografijaperformans [Vlasta Delimar - Monographyperformance], Areagrafika, Zagreb (sa Vladom Martekom i Marijanom Špoljarom) (hrv. engl.)
• 2002 Martek – Fatalne figure umjetnika – Eseji o umjetnosti i kulturi XX. stoljeća u Jugoistiočnoj. Istočnoj i Srednjoj Europi kroz djelo(vanje) umjentika Vlade Marteka [Martek – Artist’s Fatal Figures – Essays on Art and Culture of the 20th Century in the Southeastern, Eastern and Middle Europe through the Work of Artist Vlado Martek], Meandar, Zagreb, (hrv. engl.)
• 2001 Anatomija angelov. Razprave o umetnosti in teoriji v Sloveniji po letu 1960, ZPS, Ljubljana, 2001. (slov.)
• 2001 Figura, askeza in perverzija, Hyperion, Koper, 2001. (slov.)
• 2001 Paragrami tela/figure: Predavanja i rasprave o strategijama i taktikama teorijskog izvođenja u modernom i postmodernom performance artu, teatru, operi, muzici, filmu i tehnoumetnosti, CENPI, Beograd, (srp.)
• 2000 Point de Capiton. Eseji, fragmenti i meditacije o umjetnicima, Izdanje Darko Šimičić i Božidar Raos, Zagreb, (hrv.)
• 1999 Pojmovnik moderne i postmoderne likovne umetnosti i teorije posle 1950, SANU i Prometej, Beograd i Novi Sad, (srp.)
• 1999 Koloman Novak LUMINOKINETIKA. Eseji o Kolomanu Novaku [Koloman Novak LUMINOCINETICS, Essays on Koloman Nopvak], Prometej, Novi Sad, (srp. engl.)
• 1998 Estetika apstraktnog slikarstva. Apstraktna umetnost i teorija umetnika 20-ih godina, Narodna knjiga / Alfa, Beograd, (srp.)
• 1997 Slavko Bogdanović POLITIKA TELA. Eseji o Slavku Bogdanoviću [Slavko Bogdanović BODY POLITICS, Essays on Slavko Bogdanović], Prometej i K21K, Novi Sad, *1997. (srp. engl.)
• 1996 Asimetrični drugi. Eseji o umetnicima i konceptima, Prometej, Novi Sad, (srp.)
• 1996 Neša Paripović AUTOPORTRETI. Eseji o Neši Paripoviću [Neša Paripović, SELFPORTRAITS. Essays on Neša Paripović], Prometej, Novi Sad, (srp. engl.)
• 1995 Postmoderna (73 pojma), Narodna knjiga, Beograd, (srp.)
• 1995 Prolegomena za analitičku estetiku, Četvrti talas, Novi Sad, (srp.)
• 1994 PAS TOUT - Fragments on art, culture, politics, poetics and art theory 1994-1974, Meow Press, Buffalo NY, (engl.)
• 1989 Scene jezika. Uloga teksta u likovnim umetnostima. Fragmentarne istorije 1920-1990 knj. 1 i 2, ULUS, Beograd, (srp.)

Curatorial works

• 2007 Konceptualna umetnost, Muzej savremene umentosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad.
• 2006 Hibridno – Imaginarno : slikarstvo ili ekran, Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad.
• 2005 Moć Praznine – Julije Knifer i Tomo Savić Gecan, Galerija PM, Zagreb.
• 2004 Politike slikarstva, Obalne galerije, Piran.
• 1998 Prestupničke forme devedesetih – Postmoderna i avangarda na kraju XX veka, (sa Ješom Denegrijem), Muzej savremene likovne umetnosti Novi Sad i Centar za savremenu kulturu Konkordija Vršac.
• 1996 Tendencije devedesetih: hijatusi modernizma i postmodernizma, Centar za vizuelnu kulturu ‘Zlatno oko’, Novi Sad.
• 1996 Primeri apstraktne umetnosti: jedna radikalna istorija, Paviljon Cvijete Zuzorić, Beograd.
• 1995 Grupa Kod, Grupa ($ i Grupa ($ Kod – Retrospektiva, Galerija savremene likovne umetnosti, Novi Sad.
• 1981 David Nez – Rad 1968-1973, Gakerija SKCa, Beograd.
• 1980 Primeri – druga skulptura 1961-1979, Galerija SKCa, Beograd.
• 1978 Primeri analitičkih radova, Galerija SKCa i Galerija Nova, Zagreb.

Essays

• „Epostemology of Teaching Art – How to Learn / Teach Art – Yes or No ...How and Where!?“, from “Art in the grip of education”, Maska no. 103-104, Ljubljana, 2007.
• “Technologies of Performing in Performance Art”, TkH no. 10, Beograd, 2006.
• “Indexing and Mapping Modern and Postmodern Art in Serbia after 1945”, from Irwin (eds), East Art Map – Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, Afterall, London, 2006.
• “Critical Question About Deconstruction or About DeCentring of the Relation Between *Philosophy and Music”, in Leon Stefanija (ed), Musicological Annual XLI / 2, Ljubljana”, 2005.
• “Theoretical Performance”, Maska no. 90-91, Ljubljana, 2005.
• “NSK Symptom”, from Art and Politics – The Imagination of Opposition in Europe, R4 publishing, Dublin i The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, 2004.
• „Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans“, from Aleš Erjavec (ed), Postmodernism and the Postsocijalist Condition – Politized Art under Late Socialism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003.
• “The Limits of Discourse: A Lecture on Relationship between Theory and Body in the XX Century”, Filozofski vesnik XXIII, 2/2002, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2002.
• “Belgrade”, iz Timothy O. Benson (ed), Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910–1930, LACMA Los Angeles i The MIT Press Cambridge Mass, 2002.
• “The Ideology of Exhibition: on the ideologies of Manifesta”, Platforma SCCA no.3, Ljubljana, 2002.
• “Critical Phenomenology of Artwork: The Status, the Functions and the Effects of the Artwork at Manifesta 3”, Platforma SCCA no. 2, Ljubljana, 2000.
• “Status and priorities. A pre-consideration for Manifesta 3”, Platforma SCCA no. 1, Ljubljana, 2000.
• "Painting After Painting: The Painting od Susan Bee", from M/E/A/N/I¬/N.G – An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism, Duke University Press, Durham, London, 1995.
• “Advocates: Art and Philosophy. Approachin the ‘Relations’ of Philosophy and Art in the 20th Century”, from XIVth International Congress of Aesthetics “Aesthetics as Philosophy” * Proceedings - Part I - Introductory and Invited Papers, u Filozofski vestnik št. 2, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 1999, str. 111-126.

TV Programs

• Video pojmovnik umetnosti i teorije XX veka [Video Dictionary: Art and Theory in 20th Century] (22 shows), ART TV, Beograd, 2000-2001.

External links

• Šuvaković, Miško. "THE IDEOLOGY OF EXHIBITION: ON THE IDEOLOGIES OF MANIFESTA". http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma3/suvakoviceng.htm. 
• Šuvaković, Miško. "PAINTING AFTER PAINTING: The Paintings of Susan Bee". http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bee/reviews/suvakovic.html. 
• Šuvaković, Miško. conceptual Art, Political Art, and the Poetry of "CODE". JSTOR 303919. 
• Šuvaković, Miško. "Status and priorities: A pre-cosideration for Manifesta 3". http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma1/misko02.htm. 
• Šuvaković, Miško. "Critical Phenomenology of Artwork: The Status, the Functions and the Effects of the Artwork at Manifesta 3". http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma2/suvakovicang.htm. 

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Name	Suvakovic, Misko
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Date of birth	1954-02-24
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
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