Haptic Echo. Nature, Body, Politics and Art in the Former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

The publication entitled Haptic Echo. Nature, Body, Politics and Art in the Former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia is the result of many years of collaboration and research by three experts: Miško Šuvaković, Darko Šimičić, and Daniel Grúň, from Belgrade, Zagreb, and Bratislava. The object of their interest is the divergent or asymmetrical art histories of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia between the 1960s and the 1980s. Experimental, investigative, critical, and emancipatory artistic practices that oscillated at the boundaries between art, everyday life, political reality, and the search for freedom are represented through works of more than one hundred artists and art collectives. The authors guide us through their shared key themes, drawing parallels and affinities between seemingly distant worlds, the understanding and interpretation of which have taken on a new topical significance. The Slovak–English publication, created in connection with the international exhibition of the same name at the Bratislava City Gallery, is not only an exhibition catalogue with rich pictorial material, but also an independent scholarly and popular study.