Night Landscapes of Autopsia

Roland Orcsik

doi:10.25038/am.v0i28.608

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Roland Orcsik Szeged, University of Szeged, Hungary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.608

Keywords:

Yugoslavia; canon; politicized underground art under socialism and post-socialism; baroque; spectacle; Autopsia.

Abstract

This study explores the underground artistic project Autopsia from Vojvodina, examining its visual, textual and musical works within the context of ex-Yugoslav avant-garde, neo-avant-garde and postmodern art. The focus will be on Autopsia’s latest project Steel Books, which are unique art objects that incorporate diverse cultural questions. Steel Books recontextualize ancient motifs of night and death, resonating with similar themes found in Baroque art and literature. Autopsia combines the Baroque method of discordia concors with postmodern eclecticism, but rather than celebrating the neoliberal ‘free market” of cultural artefacts, it offers a critical perspective.

Author Biography

Roland Orcsik, Szeged, University of Szeged, Hungary

Roland Orcsik was born in Becse (Serbia, Voivodina, ex-Yugoslavia) in 1975. He has been living in Szeged, Hungary since 1992. He works at the University of Szeged in the Institute of Slavonic Studies. Orcsik is one of the editors of literary monthly Tiszatáj. He writes poetry, prose, criticism, essays, studies and he translates several Ex-Yugoslav languages into Hungarian. His research focuses on Hungarian and Ex-Yugoslav literary contacts. So far, he has published five volumes of poetry (plus two selections in Serbian and one in Croatian and English). His first novel, titled Phantomcommando, was published in 2016 and has been translated into Romanian and Serbian. His works are translated in Arabic, Asami, Czech, English, French, Croatian, Greek, German, Odia, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Serbian languages.

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