Professor, Faculty for Social Sciences
redni profesor, Fakulteta za družbene vede
Mitja Velikonja is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty for Social Sciences in Ljubljana. Main areas of his research include contemporary Central-European and Balkan political ideologies, subcultures and graffiti culture, collective memory and post-socialist nostalgia. In 2019 he published the "Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe" (Routledge). In 2021, his new book “The Chosen Few: Aesthetics and Ideology in Football Fan Graffiti and Street Art” will be published by DoppelHouse Press.
Z Martho Cooper, kultno fotoreporterko družbenih in kulturnih robov ameriških megapolisov, katerih blišč in bedo, bolečino in navdihe neutrudno beleži s kamero v roki že od sedemdesetih, se bomo pogovarjali v okviru dveh njenih del, po katerih je najbolj znana. Najprej o njenem pionirskem dokumentiranju zgodnje newyorške grafitarske scene v foto-knjigi Subway Art (1984). Drugo delo je nedavni dokumentarni film Martha: A Picture Story (2019), v katerem o njenem neprecenljivem prispevku k razumevanju kulture ulic – predvsem tistih stranskih, umazanih in zgrafitiranih – govorijo njeni sodobniki in tudi ona sama.