Lina Dzuverovic

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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Lina Džuverović is Lecturer in Arts Policy and Management at the Department for Film, Media and Cultural Studies, an independent curator and founding director of Electra, a London-based contemporary arts organisation. Her research focuses on feminist art histories and contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building. Lina founded the Decolonial Feminist Forum at Birkbeck in 2019.
Previously Lina was Artistic Director of Calvert 22 Foundation, Media Arts Curator at ICA, London, Education Curator at Lux Centre and has taught fine art at University of Reading and Institute for Contemporary Art, TU Graz, Austria.Selected exhibitions include: “Monuments Should Not Be Trusted” (Nottingham Contemporary, 2016), “Sanja Iveković – Unknown Heroine” (South London Gallery and Calvert 22 Foundation, 2012), “27 Senses” (Chisenhale Gallery, London; Kunstmuseet KUBE, Norway, 2009/10), “Favoured Nations” (5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2009), “Her Noise” (South London Gallery, 2005).
Prior to completing her PhD at the Critical Writing in Art & Design Department, Royal College of Art and Tate (CDA AHRC), Lina studied at The London Consortium (Birkbeck College), Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and Chelsea College of Art and Design.Web profiles
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Governance and management of small-scale visual arts organisations
- Art collectives, labour and gender
- Intersectional feminist and decolonial politics in arts policy and management
- Feminist self-organisation
- Politics and mechanics of collaborative work
- Conceptual art, interdisciplinary practices and institutional critique
- Curatorial practice and labour conditions in the contemporary art sector
- Yugoslav art, Student Cultural Centres and interdisciplinarity 1960s – 1990s
- Self-management and cultural politics in socialist Yugoslavia
- The Antifascist Women’s Front in Yugoslavia and its legacies Artistic autonomy, national representation and soft power
- Critical art geography and issues of neocolonialism
Research overview
My research focuses on the field of contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building. Through the project And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives, I am currently researching the internal workings and division of labour within artists’ collectives, seeking to highlight inequalities, forms of silencing and marginalising of certain participants.
More broadly, my research interests include articulations of feminist goals in small visual arts organisations, based on my experience of founding and running Electra; intersections of cultural diplomacy and contemporary art through the study of soft-power; the confluence of sound-based practices and contemporary arts networks.
In 2019 I founded the Decolonial Feminist Forum at Birkbeck which meets regularly at the School of Arts or online.
As a practice-based researcher and curator my methods usually involve interviews, conversations, workshops, residencies, exhibitions and reading groups, all of which gradually shape the outcomes of my projects. Previous projects which have taken such an approach have included Her Noise, 27 Senses, Archive as Strategy as well as Monuments Should Not Be Trusted emerging from my PhD research.
Research Centres and Institutes
- Co-director, Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture (BIRMaC)
Research projects
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest.
Current doctoral researchers
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HAOTONG WANG
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HEATHER GOODMAN
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2020) Is the honeymoon over? The tumultuous love affair between the museum and the arts of sound. Circuit: Musiques Contemporaines 30 (1), pp. 11-24. ISSN 1183-1693.
- Dzuverovic, Lina and Revell, I. (2019) Lots of shiny junk at the art dump: the sick and unwilling curator. Parse Journal 9, ISSN 2002-0953.
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2018) Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1956-2016, MoMA, New York. Art Monthly ISSN 0142-6702.
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2016) Twice erased: the silencing of feminisms in 'Her Noise'. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 20 (1), pp. 88-95. ISSN 1553-0612.
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2016) Holly Herndon: a life across bits and atoms. Afterall 41, pp. 90-97. ISSN 1465-4253.
Book
- Dzuverovic, Lina and Crowley, D. and Dimitrijevic, B. and Kirn, G. and Pejic, B. and Piskur, B. Dzuverovic, Lina, ed. (2016) Monuments should not be trusted. Nottingham, UK: Nottingham Contemporary. ISBN 9781907421082.
Book Section
- Lina, Dzuverovic (2022) Yugoslav pop, female artists and the emergence of feminist agency. In: Minioudaki, K. and Hadler, M. (eds.) Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race and Class in the Global Sixties. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350197534.
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2019) Momentum Biennial - The Reader. In: Klontz, A. and Marti, Manen (eds.) Momentum10: The Emotional Exhibition Reader. Stockholm, Sweden: Art & Theory. ISBN 9789188031754.
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2015) Contribution to The World Goes Pop exhibition catalogue. In: The World Goes Pop. London, UK: Tate Publishing. ISBN 9781849762700.
- Dzuverovic, Lina Notes towards a feminist revisiting of Yugoslav collectives in the 1960s and 1970s: the case of the OHO Group. In: Vilenica, A. and Pekic, M. and Vukovic, S. and Medic, D. (eds.) Fragmenti o jugoslovenskoj 'vaninsgitucionalnoj' kolektivnoj (samo)organizaciji. Novi Sad: kuda.org. (In Press)
Conference Item
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2021) Yugoslav-African solidarity, women and personal archives: the case of Olja Džuverović’s archive. Invisible Non-Aligned: Omitted Histories, 2021, Belgrade, Serbia
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2021) Soft power, cultural diplomacy and Yugoslav internationalism. Gesture and Freedom Symposium, 2021, Zagreb, Croatia
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2021) Dreamworlds collapsing: an unsettled story in four acts. Communist Hauntings, 2021, The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2020) Nice but not essential: rethinking value in the work of small visual arts organisations from a decolonial perspective. Another Artworld, 2020, Belgrade, Serbia
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2018) Challenging neocolonial methodologies as a step towards delinking from the colonial matrix of power. Theorizing the Geography of East-Central European Art, East-Central European Art Forum, 2018, Poznań, Poland
- Dzuverovic, Lina (2016) Feeding off contradiction: self-managed Socialism in focus. Feeding Off Contradiction: Self Managed Socialism in Focus, 2016, Nottingham, UK
Exhibition
- Dzuverovic, Lina Monuments Should Not Be Trusted.
Other
- Dzuverovic, Lina Research portfolio: Monuments are not to be trusted.