Suzana Milevska Livres

Reinigungsgesellschaft stands for an art practice in the field of social dialogue. It works with partners from a range of backgrounds and represents a platform for interdisciplinary activities. Contemporary art serves as a catalyst for social and political processes. The introductory manifesto outlines the most important slogans, thematic focal points and areas of operation for Reinigungsgesellschaft's work. Based on the numerous projects documented in the book, what the Reinigungsgesellschaft means by this proclaimed, cognitive conception of art in practice is: Art serves understanding and an element of learning. The second volume contains additional projects and a text by Suzana Milevska on the standpoint of art within society.

The project The Renaming Machine looks at the complex entanglements involved in the political and cultural processes of renaming. Its main concept reflects the crucial need to question the way these processes have influenced the construction and destabilization of the memory of national, cultural andpersonal identities in the former Yugoslavia and South-Eastern Europe over the past two decades. Alongside the philosophical and theoretical implications of the “mystic writing pad” of historic renaming, the project examines clandestine ideological patterns of the “desiring renaming machine” at work behind the dominant and visible social machines. Particularly with the break-up of Yugoslavia, the renaming “apparatus” erased and overwrote most traces from the Tito era, including the Yugoslav leader’s own name, which had been attached to many places in the former country.Participating writers and artists in the book are (among others):Sanja Iveković, Tanja Ostojić/DavidRych, Tadej Pogačar, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Irwin, Alexander Vaindorf, Sasha Huber, Kalle Hamm, Mladen Stilinović, Hristina Ivanoska, Zdenko Bužek, Barbara Borčić, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , James E. Faulconer, Suzana Milevska, Aldo Milohnić, Zhivka Valiavicharska.Valiavicharska.