Talk
Unbribable Life: Art & Activism in former Yugoslavia & the UK
3 Mar 2016
Event times
Workshop 3pm – 5pm
Public Event 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Cost of entry
Free, booking required.
Address
- Weekday Cross
- Nottingham
- NG1 2GB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Any bus to Nottingham City Centre
- Lace Market Tram Stop
- Nottingham Station
Artist Margareta Kern and activist Damir Arsenijevic host an event on contemporary labour struggles in the former Yugoslavia, discussing new forms of direct democracy, like the Citizen's Plenum, in relation to worker movements in the UK.
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Artist Margareta Kern and activist DamirArsenijevic host an event on contemporary labour struggles in the former Yugoslavia, discussing new forms of direct democracy, like the Citizen's Plenum that emerged out of protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2014, in relation to worker movements there and in the UK and Nottingham in particular.
In 2015 workers at the DITA Factory in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, occupied and took control of a factory inactive due to bankruptcy and corruption since 2012. Drawing from the force of the plenums (public encounters for resisting state corruption held in Tuzla’s national gallery) workers have the factory up and running and are joined by activists, artists and researchers in founding a Worker’s University within the factory walls. How do the ideals of self-managed socialism find themselves in recent movements which contest the global webs of debt and corruption on a global scale? How do these relate to histories of worker struggle in the Midlands and how they are being reconfigured, particularly when they are increasingly reliant on the so-called ‘knowledge economy’?