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“Euro-Balkan” in Skopje and she taught
Visual Culture at its research degree M.A. in
Gender Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual
Cultures from Goldsmiths College in London
(2006) where she thought from 2003 to
2005. In 2004, she was a Fulbright Senior
Research Scholar in Library of Congress.
Her research and curatorial interests include
post colonial critique in arts, visual culture,
feminism and gender theory. Since 1992 she
curates exhibitions, conferences, long-life
learning and other participatory projects. She
was a member of the Advisory Board at the
Contemporary Art Museum in Kumamoto,
Japan (2004/2005). Her most recent
research and curatorial project The
Renaming Machine consists of series exhibitions
and conferences discussing the politics
of renaming and overwriting memory in art
and visual culture (2008-2010). Recently she
published her book Gender Difference in the
Balkans (Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM
Verlag, 2010) and edited The Research
Machine (Ljubljana: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
Institute, 2010).
Eugen Rădescu
Eugen Rădescu is politologist (specialized in
moral relativism and political ethics), cultural
manager, curator and theoretician. He writes
for various magazines and newspapers. He
curated, among others, Bucharest Biennale
1 with the theme "Identity Factories", "How
Innocent Is That?" and "presently i have nothig
to show and i'm showing it!" at Pavilion
Bucharest. He published a book "How
Innocent Is That?" at Revolver Books -
Berlin, Germany. He is co-editor of Pavilion
- journal for politics and culture and co-director
of Bucharest Biennale (with Răzvan Ion)
and the chairman of the organizational board
of Pavilion and Bucharest Biennale. He is
associate professor at University of
Bucharest and Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj.
Curently is a PhD candidate at Babes-Bolyiai
University with a thesis on political science.
Lives and works in Bucharest.
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Simon Sheikh
Simon Sheikh is a curator and critic. He is an
Assistant Professor of Art Theory and a
Coordinator of the Critical Studies Program,
Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. He was
director of Overgaden – Institute for
Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, 1999-
2002 and Curator at NIFCA, Helsinki, 2003-
2004. Editor of the magazine Øjeblikket
1996-2000, and a member of the project
group GLOBE 1993-2000. Curatorial work
includes exhibitions such as Exclusion,
Consul, Århus, 1993, I Confess, Nikolaj –
Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center,
1995, Escape Attempts in Christiania,
Copenhagen, 1996 (with GLOBE), Do-It-
Yourself – Mappings and Instructions,
Bricks+Kicks, Vienna, 1997, Models of
Resistance, Overgaden, Copenhagen 2000
(with GLOBE), Naust Øygarden, Bergen,
Norway 2000, In My Room, Nordic Video,
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Circa Berlin, Nikolaj – Copenhagen
Contemporary Art Center, 2005 and Capital
(It Fails Us Now) at UKS, Oslo, 2005 and
Kunstihoone, Tallinn, 2006. Recent publications
include the anthologies We are all
Normal (with Katya Sander), Black Dog
Publishing, London 2001, Knut Åsdam
(monograph), Fine Arts Unternehmen, Zug,
2004, In the Place of the Public Sphere?,
b_books, Berlin, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us
Now), b_books, Berlin, 2006. His writings
can also be found in such periodicals as
Afterall, AnArchitectur, Springerin and Texte
zur Kunst. Lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.
Marius Stan
Marius Stan holds a PhD in political sciences
from the Faculty of Political Sciences –
Bucharest University (with a thesis on the
administration of the past in Serbia and the
functioning of the ICTY), and currently works
as a researcher within the Institute for the
Investigation of Communist Crimes and the
Memory of the Romanian Exile wherefrom
he has published several articles and other
writings on the history of communism in
Romania. He has published many studies
about the penitentiary system, re-education
by means of torture, and the communist
repression in Romania; he also coordinates
the international journal History of
Communism in Europe. He co-authored two
volumes of the The Dictionary of the Officers
and Civil Employees belonging to the
General Directorate of the Penitentiaries.
Central Apparatus: 1948-1989, Iași: Polirom,
2009/ 2011.
Starting with 2006 he is a member and spokesman
of the civic movement “Militia
Spirituala” (“Spiritual Militia”).
Among his fields of interest should be mentioned
few educational and memorial projects
(istoriacomunismului.ro; memoryofnation.eu/),
the socio-political transformations
in post-communist Europe and transitional
studies – general (Romania/Serbia – in particular).
Ștefan Voicu
Ștefan Voicu studies Social and Cultural
Anthropology at KULeuven in Belgium. He is
interested in the production of contemporary
visual African art, visual representation of
postcolonialism and post-socialism, and the
analysis of epistemic objects. He curated
"The Discreet Charm of Political Activism" in
2011, the first edition of Pavilion Screenings.
Lives and works in Leuven, Belgium.
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