Branislav Jakovljevic
Biographic Data
| ID | 1079575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Branislav Jakovljevic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Branislav |
| FAMILY NAME | Jakovljevic |
| SIGNATURE | JAKOVLJEVIC B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Excellence in Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2393-6648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing the Political Unknown: A Report on the Student Protest Movement in Serbia
On 1 November 2024, a concrete and steel canopy at a newly reconstructed railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad collapsed, instantly killing 14 passersby, with two more succumbing to injuries in the following weeks. Many citizens saw this as the outcome of rampant government corruption and staged silent vigils for the victims. In response to the regime’s violent crackdown on a vigil in front of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, s…
The Project and The (ART) Object: Conversations with Ješa Denegri and Benjamin Buchloh
This article explores the books of interviews, published in 2024, with the prominent German-American art critic Benjamin Buchloh and his Yugoslavian peer Jerko “Ješa” Denegri. In Exit Interview, Buchloh is interviewed by his colleague and friend Hal Foster; and in The Yugoslav Art Space, Denegri engages in a dialogue with Branislav Dimitrijević and Jelena Vesić, the art critics that came of age during the unraveling of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Wh…
Response to Gal Kirn
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Genet in Gaza
Jean Genet’s 1966 epic play The Screens offers a unique insight into Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent devastation of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces. Seen from this perspective, this is not a local war, but an event that has global significance
The Relay of Radicalism: What Is Partisan Art to New Art Practice in Yugoslavia
The former Yugoslavia was the site of fierce partisan resistance to occupying Nazi forces during WWII and of a vigorous alternative arts scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Recent books on partisan art and New Art Practices make it possible to trace connections between these two seemingly unrelated instances of radical art practices
Catastrophe of the Catastrophe: Industrial Aristotelianism and the (Dis)Emplotment of the Capitalocene
Considering correspondences between historical and dramatic imagination, how can we theatre and performance scholars find ways to represent the Capitalocene and offer a vision of a future other than that of decline or incessant growth
Under the Sign of The Mother: The Wooster Group’s Learning Play
A key lesson of the Wooster Group’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s learning play The Mother concerns the meaning of ownership in capitalism. Unlike other businesses that moved into SoHo during the wave of deindustrialization that began in the late 1960s, the group of actors that owns a former metal stamping factory at 33 Wooster Street shows that their relationship towards their means of production is not only economic, but also ethical. This is …
Madness as a Form of Knowledge: Pavel Ivanovich Karpov's Creativity of the Mentally Ill
Within the span of only four years, two books on the same subject and with almost identical titles were published on two sides of Europe: Hans Prinzhorn's Artistry of the Mentally Ill (Berlin, 1922) and Pavel Ivanovich Karpov's Creativity of the Mentally Ill (Moscow, 1926). Whereas the first book was recognized as one of the key steps in the “discovery” of the psychotic art and its eventual mainstreaming, the second one quickly fell into obscurit…
Peripeteia: Rehearsing Against the End of the World
How can performance help us to think about the problem of climate change and its integral relationships to social and political frameworks? What directions do societies and arts need to take in order to forge different futures? Reflections on the proposals put forward in this installment of the special issue on Peripeteia raise questions toward further conversation
The Peyote Dance . Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith. Brighton, England: Bella Union, 2019. MP3 $7.92, CD $14.98, vinyl $25.98
Père Gynt: Mendacity for the 21st Century
September 01 2020 Père Gynt: Mendacity for the 21st Century Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljević is Professor in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. His most recent book, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1945–1991 (2016), won the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award for 2017 and the 2016/17 Joe A. Callaway Award for th…
Performance Art and Illiberal Democracy: Marina Abramović's The Cleaner in Belgrade
In September 2019, Marina Abramović's exhibition, The Cleaner, billed as her “European retrospective,” opened in Belgrade. The funding for the exhibit was secured through a direct intervention that came from Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić. The Cleaner quickly became the center of a vigorous political debate, which exposed hypocrisies of the regime of illiberal democracy currently in power in Serbia
The Voice from the 10th Row: Carl Weber and the Berliner Ensemble
During his time working with the Berliner Ensemble, Carl Weber observed firsthand Brecht’s techniques as he called out directions to his actors from the 10th row. Weber, groundbreaking theatre director, actor, scholar, and pedagogue, gave a series of interviews during his final years with a group of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at Stanford University, reflecting on the artistic processes of the Berliner Ensemble and its le…
Come home Charley Patton; Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
December 01 2017 Come home Charley Patton; Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance Come home Charley Patton. By RalphLemon. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013; 240 pp.; illustrations. $30.00 cloth, e-book available.Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance. By KatherineProfeta. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015; 284 pp.; illustrations. $26.95 paper, e-book available. Branislav …
Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91
In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989 was e…
Wooster Baroque
In the decade following 9/11, the Wooster Group staged three landmark 17th-century plays, Phaedra, Hamlet, and La Didone. This turn to baroque theatre is both a comment on American culture of the first decade of the 21st century and a significant departure in the history of the group itself
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
From Mastermind to Body Artist: Political Performances of Slobodan Milošević
From his rise to power in the mid-'80s to his trial 20 years later, Milošević was the focus of powerful social theatricalities. As a public performance, Milošević's trial is inseparable from the mass meetings he organized in Serbia between 1987 and 1989; the political drama of the breakdown of Yugoslavia's federal government; the intense struggles against the opposition fought in the streets; the wars taking place in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, an…
A Note from the “Books” Section Editor
December 01 2008 A Note from the “Books” Section Editor Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Branislav Jakovljevic Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2008 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 TDR/The Drama Review (2008) 52 (4 (200)): 193. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2008.52.4.193 Cite Icon Cite Per…
Human Resources: June 1968, Hair , and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End
January 01 2008 Human Resources: June 1968, Hair, and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljevic ́ is assistant professor in the Department of Drama at Stanford University. He specializes in modernist theater and the avant-garde and his current research focuses on the relation of the event to performance. Branislav completed his undergraduate studies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and his graduat…
Theatricality As Medium . Samuel Weber. Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames . Vicky Ann Cremona, Peter Eversmann, Hans van Maanen, Willmar Sauter, John Tulloch
March 01 2006 Theatricality As Medium; Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames Theatricality As Medium. WeberSamuel. Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames. CremonaVicky Ann, EversmannPeter, van MaanenHans, SauterWillmar, TullochJohn. Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and specializes in modernist theatre and the avantgarde. …
The Space Specific Theatre: Skewed Visions' The City Itself
The performances in these Critical Acts de-privilege the visual aspect of the performer-audience relationship, instead focusing on the materiality of the encounter. In The City Itself, the performance group Skewed Visions departs from site-specific performance to engage in an examination of the physical and metaphysical properties of various locales; and in The Courtesan Tales, Nicole Blackman tells erotic tales to a bound audience-of-one, challe…
Daniil Kharms, the Hunger Artist: Toward Eden, and the Other Way Around
In my essay I propose that this author's dramatic works, unpublished during his lifetime, can be properly assessed not according to their aesthetic properties or their stageability, but only as dramatizations understood in the sense of actualization, or discursive staging, of an idea. As a case in point, I take several of Kharms's works on the theme of the Fall from grace as dramatization of the idea of anthology as a conceptual field that includ…
Books
September 01 2004 Fluxus Experience Fluxus Experience. By HigginsHannah Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis Online…
Books
December 01 2005 The Consul: Conversations with Gérard Berréby with the Help of Giulio Minghini and Chantal Osterreicher The Consul: Conversations with Gérard Berréby with the Help of Giulio Minghini and Chantal Osterreicher. By RumneyRalph . Translated from the French by ImrieMalcom Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minneapolis in Minnesota Search for other …
Daniil Kharms, the Hunger Artist: Toward Eden, and the Other Way Around
In my essay I propose that this author's dramatic works, unpublished during his lifetime, can be properly assessed not according to their aesthetic properties or their stageability, but only as dramatizations understood in the sense of actualization, or discursive staging, of an idea. As a case in point, I take several of Kharms's works on the theme of the Fall from grace as dramatization of the idea of anthology as a conceptual field that includ…
Picturing the screen: The American museum of the moving image
Theatre of War in the Former Yugoslavia, Event, Script, Actors
September 01 1999 Theatre of War in the Former Yugoslavia, Event, Script, Actors Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Branislav Jakovljevic Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 1999 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology1999 TDR/The Drama Review (1999) 43 (3 (163)): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1162/10542049976…
Shattered Back Wall: Performative Utterance of A Doll's House
In the last decades of the twentieth century, J. L. Austin's performative speech act theory emerged as one of the most passionately contested philosophical ideas. 1 There are many reasons for this. One of the most significant is that a performative speech act reintroduces the referent into linguistics: it brings language, so to speak, back to the body and to the stormy question of identity. The general performative speech act theory oversteps the…
Books
December 01 2003 Guy Debord; Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents Guy Debord. By JappeAnselmGuy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. Edited by McDonoughTom Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and specializes in modernist theatre and the avantgarde Search for other works by this a…
Books
September 01 2004 Fluxus Experience Fluxus Experience. By HigginsHannah Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis Online…
Books
December 01 2005 The Consul: Conversations with Gérard Berréby with the Help of Giulio Minghini and Chantal Osterreicher The Consul: Conversations with Gérard Berréby with the Help of Giulio Minghini and Chantal Osterreicher. By RumneyRalph . Translated from the French by ImrieMalcom Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minneapolis in Minnesota Search for other …
The Space Specific Theatre: Skewed Visions' The City Itself
The performances in these Critical Acts de-privilege the visual aspect of the performer-audience relationship, instead focusing on the materiality of the encounter. In The City Itself, the performance group Skewed Visions departs from site-specific performance to engage in an examination of the physical and metaphysical properties of various locales; and in The Courtesan Tales, Nicole Blackman tells erotic tales to a bound audience-of-one, challe…
Daniil Kharms, the Hunger Artist: Toward Eden, and the Other Way Around
In my essay I propose that this author's dramatic works, unpublished during his lifetime, can be properly assessed not according to their aesthetic properties or their stageability, but only as dramatizations understood in the sense of actualization, or discursive staging, of an idea. As a case in point, I take several of Kharms's works on the theme of the Fall from grace as dramatization of the idea of anthology as a conceptual field that includ…
Theatricality As Medium . Samuel Weber. Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames . Vicky Ann Cremona, Peter Eversmann, Hans van Maanen, Willmar Sauter, John Tulloch
March 01 2006 Theatricality As Medium; Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames Theatricality As Medium. WeberSamuel. Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames. CremonaVicky Ann, EversmannPeter, van MaanenHans, SauterWillmar, TullochJohn. Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and specializes in modernist theatre and the avantgarde. …
From Mastermind to Body Artist: Political Performances of Slobodan Milošević
From his rise to power in the mid-'80s to his trial 20 years later, Milošević was the focus of powerful social theatricalities. As a public performance, Milošević's trial is inseparable from the mass meetings he organized in Serbia between 1987 and 1989; the political drama of the breakdown of Yugoslavia's federal government; the intense struggles against the opposition fought in the streets; the wars taking place in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, an…
A Note from the “Books” Section Editor
December 01 2008 A Note from the “Books” Section Editor Branislav Jakovljevic Branislav Jakovljevic Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Branislav Jakovljevic Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2008 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 TDR/The Drama Review (2008) 52 (4 (200)): 193. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2008.52.4.193 Cite Icon Cite Per…
Human Resources: June 1968, Hair , and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End
January 01 2008 Human Resources: June 1968, Hair, and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljevic ́ is assistant professor in the Department of Drama at Stanford University. He specializes in modernist theater and the avant-garde and his current research focuses on the relation of the event to performance. Branislav completed his undergraduate studies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and his graduat…
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
Wooster Baroque
In the decade following 9/11, the Wooster Group staged three landmark 17th-century plays, Phaedra, Hamlet, and La Didone. This turn to baroque theatre is both a comment on American culture of the first decade of the 21st century and a significant departure in the history of the group itself
Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91
In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify. The book challenges the assumption that the art emerging in Eastern Europe before 1989 was e…
Come home Charley Patton; Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
December 01 2017 Come home Charley Patton; Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance Come home Charley Patton. By RalphLemon. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013; 240 pp.; illustrations. $30.00 cloth, e-book available.Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance. By KatherineProfeta. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015; 284 pp.; illustrations. $26.95 paper, e-book available. Branislav …
The Voice from the 10th Row: Carl Weber and the Berliner Ensemble
During his time working with the Berliner Ensemble, Carl Weber observed firsthand Brecht’s techniques as he called out directions to his actors from the 10th row. Weber, groundbreaking theatre director, actor, scholar, and pedagogue, gave a series of interviews during his final years with a group of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at Stanford University, reflecting on the artistic processes of the Berliner Ensemble and its le…
The Peyote Dance . Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith. Brighton, England: Bella Union, 2019. MP3 $7.92, CD $14.98, vinyl $25.98
Père Gynt: Mendacity for the 21st Century
September 01 2020 Père Gynt: Mendacity for the 21st Century Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljević Branislav Jakovljević is Professor in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. His most recent book, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1945–1991 (2016), won the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award for 2017 and the 2016/17 Joe A. Callaway Award for th…
Performance Art and Illiberal Democracy: Marina Abramović's The Cleaner in Belgrade
In September 2019, Marina Abramović's exhibition, The Cleaner, billed as her “European retrospective,” opened in Belgrade. The funding for the exhibit was secured through a direct intervention that came from Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić. The Cleaner quickly became the center of a vigorous political debate, which exposed hypocrisies of the regime of illiberal democracy currently in power in Serbia
Peripeteia: Rehearsing Against the End of the World
How can performance help us to think about the problem of climate change and its integral relationships to social and political frameworks? What directions do societies and arts need to take in order to forge different futures? Reflections on the proposals put forward in this installment of the special issue on Peripeteia raise questions toward further conversation
Madness as a Form of Knowledge: Pavel Ivanovich Karpov's Creativity of the Mentally Ill
Within the span of only four years, two books on the same subject and with almost identical titles were published on two sides of Europe: Hans Prinzhorn's Artistry of the Mentally Ill (Berlin, 1922) and Pavel Ivanovich Karpov's Creativity of the Mentally Ill (Moscow, 1926). Whereas the first book was recognized as one of the key steps in the “discovery” of the psychotic art and its eventual mainstreaming, the second one quickly fell into obscurit…
Catastrophe of the Catastrophe: Industrial Aristotelianism and the (Dis)Emplotment of the Capitalocene
Considering correspondences between historical and dramatic imagination, how can we theatre and performance scholars find ways to represent the Capitalocene and offer a vision of a future other than that of decline or incessant growth
Under the Sign of The Mother: The Wooster Group’s Learning Play
A key lesson of the Wooster Group’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s learning play The Mother concerns the meaning of ownership in capitalism. Unlike other businesses that moved into SoHo during the wave of deindustrialization that began in the late 1960s, the group of actors that owns a former metal stamping factory at 33 Wooster Street shows that their relationship towards their means of production is not only economic, but also ethical. This is …
Genet in Gaza
Jean Genet’s 1966 epic play The Screens offers a unique insight into Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent devastation of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces. Seen from this perspective, this is not a local war, but an event that has global significance
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