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Kuluni points out that justice and its distribution 1 The title of the exhibition
is important to all those who take part in the distri- was defined in the course of
bution of the common good. Most people, howev- work meetings with Ph.D.
er, feel that their position in society is "unjust". This Sonja Briski Uzelac who was
logically leads to the question of the model of art's the first to hear about the
function and its position in the context of project. The title seemed to
social reality. What, Row and for whorn37, are fit the discourse I planned to deal
the questions increasingly posed by all with in this exhibition. Only later
involved in art. As much as we believe that art did I
find out that The Misfits was
can affect reality, without dealing with reality, the title of John Huston's movie
it is patently obvious that no csociety can be from 1961 with Montgomery Clift
good without the corrective function of art. and Marilyn Monroe. It is also the
name of an American rock band
from the 1980s. Croatian new wave
band Film, active in the 1980s, had a
hit with the chorus "I am a misfit".
2 After the term "relational aes-
thetics" coined by Nicolas
Bournaud.
3 Miko uvakovie: Glosar,
Projektart: Hnatus, modernama
postmodernizma. magazine. Novi
Sad 2001, p.425.
4 Instructive in this sense is Miko
uvakovie's article "Art and realistic
specters of culture", published in
ivot umjetnosti. Zagreb 2002, p
106. uvakovic discusses the posi-
tion of art in former communist
countries after the fall of the Berlin
Wall, its reception and interpreta-
tion on the European scene. He is
highly critical of large exhibition
projects in the 1990s that, in his
opinion, presented art of -East
European countries" as "traces,
remnants and ruins" of a failed ide-
ology, indicating a total lack of
understanding as well as a lack of
interest in accepting the relevance
of art from behind the Iron Curtain.
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THE MISFITS