REWIND Yugoslavia 1969-91, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is a collaboration between Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. The team of four involved in the latest REWIND project comprises of Dr. Jon Blackwood (Principal Investigator), Dr. Laura Leuzzi and Mr. Adam Lockhart (Co-Investigators) and Dr. Maja Zećo (Post-Doctoral Research Assistant).

The project investigates the under-researched and dynamic video art ecologies in the former Yugoslavia, from the first recorded video artwork in Slovenia in 1969, to the dissolution of the state in 1991. Methodologically, in common with previous REWIND projects, the project will be based on interviews with artists and cultural workers who were involved directly in the production, discussion and consumption of video art in the period in question. A critical part of the project is the digitisation of works on the edge of technical obsolescence / loss.

We are also examining and assessing materials in hard to find archives around the former Yugoslavia, and have an agenda of international symposium, round tables and publication ahead of us until the project’s scheduled conclusion in summer 2027.

We will be updating the REWIND Yugoslavia database over the course of the project.