Queerbeograd Cabaret: A Shared Space Between Queer, Anti-Facism and No Border Politics

The clandestine festival QueerBeograd created spaces of critique and transformation in order to foster a politics of interconnectedness. Ivana Marjanovi explores the festival’s transnational activist cabaret between 2006 and 2008, which was devised, directed and produced by Jet Moon, a founding member of the QueerBeograd collective. This pioneering study demonstrates how the process of staging QueerBeograd Cabaret created a shared space between queer, anti-fascism and No Borders politics, contributing to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity. The study thus investigates historical genealogies of gender and political difference in the former and post-Yugoslav space, bringing these into relation with global social and art movements.

Ivana Marjanovic works as artistic and managing director of the contemporary art institution Kunstraum Innsbruck in Austria and as co-editor of »Migrazine« - an online magazine by migrant women for all. In the focus of her work are art and cultural production in the contexts of transnational knowledge transfers, migration, post-Yugoslav space and gender debates. Ivana Marjanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade in 2005 with a degree in art history. In 2017, she completed her PhD at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien.