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The film The Raft of the Medusa (1980, directed by Karpo Godina) attempts a recreation of a short part of the day in the life of avant-garde artists belonging to the “Zenit” group. The director aims to re-create the energy of artists‘ actions, and to analyse the reasons behind the movement‘s downfall. Central to the plot is the question of the possibility of revolutionary art in the remote, muddy plazas and roads of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. His search for an answer to that question eventually turns into a stance in the fierce discussion on the independence of art and its right to interfere in politics, which raged in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia at the time of the movie‘s making. The figure of the athlete Alojz Žnidaršič is of particular importance to the message of the movie. As a symbolic type, he needs no external justification – his self-sustaining artistic act has a direct, if limited, impact on reality. Jasmina Šuler Galos was born in Kranj, Slovenia in 1961. She holds a doctorate in humanities. In 1984 she obtained a masters degree in Russian and Slovenian Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. Since 1984 she has been working as a lecturer of Slovenian in Poland, since 1993 at University of Warsaw’s Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies. In 2010 she obtained her PhD. Her thesis was entitled Polish and Slovenian novel after 1989: Introducing new Vocabulary and Creating New Worlds. Her professional interests include the history of ideas in Central Europe and the Balkans. Co-author of The Lexicon of Migrating Ideas in the Slavic Balkans. Translator of books and conference interpreter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
