The masses, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, need reasons. These masses cannot comprehend that there are no reasons necessary for their obedience. After Tito's death, after the fall of the Berlin wall, much changed in Yugoslavia, that is now ex-Yugoslavia; a post industrial, post modern, post national, post colonial, post structural society, that can be perhaps summarized in the concept of post socialism? But what are the co-ordinates of this post socialism? The disintegration of the concept of ideology means that notions are no longer clear. Because we think that we are outside an ideological context, but perhaps we ourselves are the centre of the ideology. It is this idea that corresponds with the thoughts about post socialism in the nineties, and probably the post ideological society of late capitalism as well. The end of the ideological period, as announced by Lyotard and others, then perhaps seems imminent, but even in our everyday things we are not free of it, nor can we get free of it, according to Zizek. These thoughts are considered in this philosophical media reflection, based on documentary fragments, statements by Peter Weibel and Slavoj Zizek and the works of three artists: Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb), "Kasimir Malevich" (pseudonym, Belgrade) and IRWIN (Ljubljana). In the tradition of Hegel, Mladen Stilinovic's work is seen as a thesis and an ideology in itself; "Kasimir Malevich's" work is the antithesis, an ideology for itself and IRWIN's work is the synthesis, an ideology in and for itself. The story is the repercussion of an attempt to consider in context the personal as juxtaposed to the ideological and the local. The three artists are thereby placed in the context of the retro-avant-garde in which the working method is more important than style.
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Camera Jure Dlemec, Light Milijev Grevzevic, Sound Damijan Kunej, Boris Lunacek, Editing Zvone Judec, costumes Jevneja Jambrek, Make-up Alenka Nahtigal, With Milena Zupancic, Production TV Slovenija
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