Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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The Markis Feminists and Marks Theory
In addition to your interest in avengard, and bringing avengard history into this discussion, you also use feminist and marks theory. Can you tell us a little bit how you use these theoretical frameworks to examine artistic labor in your work? Ye, so the the markis feminists are important for what iam trying to discuss because of their well known critique of invisibility of domestic or housework, domestic labor, housework. Their critique is so important because what they demonstrated is that the invisibility ofDomestic Work relies on on the idea that this work is somehow natural. But not only that, that, because of this essentialization, this work can then be exploited economically.
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