Bojana Videkanic holds a PhD in visual culture and theory from York University, she teaches in the Visual Culture program at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her research explores connections between art, various modes of visual representation, and politics. Specializing in the history of Yugoslav visual art and state identity, she is currently writing a book examining Yugoslav Non-aligned socialist modernism. Her other research concerns alternative modernism and modernity in Canadian 20th-century art. Her current SSHRC-sponsored research is looking into the history of the Guild of all Arts (in Scarborough) and its architectural and aesthetic contexts.
Sessions in which Dr Bojana Videkanic participates
Saturday 27 May, 2017
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM -
12:30 PM |
1 hour 30 minutes
In light of the temporal emphasis of the conference as a whole, this session will investigate the idea of Canadian built environment in the context of “alternative modernities,” a term that defines Modernism not as a monolithic discourse, but as multiple aesthetic, cultural, and political ways of engaging with/or countering mainstream Western modernist narratives. In other words, how do constructed spaces/buildings in Canada run parallel to, or otherwise disrupt or complicate, dominant not...