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As part of the Q21 Artist-in-Residence program at MuseumsQuartier Wien, writer and researcher Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić developed the project Post Nora: Performance Art(is[t]?). The research explored contemporary female performance art and its relationship to feminism, gender identity, artistic exile, and the (non)existence of a female canon in art.

Artist-in-Residence Research Project at Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna
Author: Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić
Supported by: Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA)
Period: July–August 2018

Inspired by the symbolic figure of Ibsen’s Nora, and the “Post Nora” exhibition held in Beijing (2006), the project raised critical questions:

• Is there such a thing as „female art“?

• How are femininity and artistic identity constructed?

• What does it mean to be a woman artist today?

The residency included:

• Visits to major exhibitions (Double Lives at MUMOK, Elina Brotherus at Kunst Haus Wien, ImPulsTanz Festival)

• Interviews and discussions with artists and curators

• A questionnaire was distributed to international creatives and art audiences

• The creation of a limited-edition artist’s book as a conceptual and artistic outcome of the research

Ljiljana documented her experiences and reflections in a series of articles and essays highlighting Vienna’s contemporary art scene from a feminist and interdisciplinary perspective.

“I am not a scholar, art historian or curator – I am a writer using research as creative material. This project was a journey, both personal and artistic.”
— Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić

More about Q21 AiR project: HERE

Interview with Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić – MuseumsQuartier Wien

Read the publication HERE