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Jovita Pristovšek is a philosopher and theorist. Her research focuses on race and racialization in the context of contemporary regimes of the aesthetic, the public and the political, and at the intersection of philosophy, aesthetics, theories of contemporary art, epistemology and post- and decolonial theory. In her doctoral thesis, she analysed structural and institutional racism; using the concept of race as a central analytical tool for looking at "post-political" global space, she traced the genealogy of structural racism as it manifests itself in three forms of social production - aesthetic, public and political. Her research topics also include biopolitics, necropolitics, (de)coloniality, sovereignty, the sublime, public space, politics of representation, conviviality and community.
Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity Honorary Mention 2022: Platform »Digital Research Travelogues through European Archives« (Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Sophie Uitz), FWF-PEEK AR 439
GRŽINIĆ, Marina (editor), PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita (editor). Political choreographies, decolonial theories, trans bodies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. X, 273 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-1-5275-0146-1. [COBISS.SI-ID 156482819]
GRŽINIĆ, Marina (editor), PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita (editor). Re-activating critical thinking in the midst of necropolitical realities : for radical change. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. IX, 458 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-1-5275-8164-7, ISBN 1-5275-8164-0. [COBISS.SI-ID 97163523]
PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Necro-aesthetics, deading bodies, and performativity of flesh. In: GRŽINIĆ, Marina (ed.), PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita (ed.). Re-activating critical thinking in the midst of necropolitical realities : for radical change. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. Str. 284-306. ISBN 978-1-5275-8164-7, ISBN 1-5275-8164-0. [COBISS.SI-ID 109184515]
GRŽINIĆ, Marina, PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Space, movement(s), and the body of the community as a new aesthetics : online prispevek na konferenci "Performance and Populism. Mobilization, Popular Power and Embodiment on the Left", org. University of Warwick (Velika Britanija) in UCLA - Berkeley (ZDA), 4. nov. 2021. [COBISS.SI-ID 90957827]
GRŽINIĆ, Marina (editor), PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita (editor), UITZ, Sophie (editor), JAUERNIK, Christina (editor). Stories of traumatic pasts : colonialism, antisemitism, and turbo-nationalism. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, [2020]. 204 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-3-7757-4884-1. [COBISS.SI-ID 90050307]
PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. From biopolitical amnesia toward the necropolitical agnosia. In: GRŽINIĆ, Marina (ed.), PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita (ed.), UITZ, Sophie (ed.). Opposing colonialism, antisemitism, and turbo-nationalism : rethinking the past for new conviviality. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, cop. 2020. Str. 514-530. ISBN 978-1-5275-4184-9, ISBN 1-5275-4184-3. [COBISS.SI-ID 45893421]
GRŽINIĆ, Marina, PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Race and its far-reaching contemporary ontological and epistemological implications. In: ROSEN, Matt (ed.). Diseases of the head : essays on the horrors of speculative philosophy. Earth, Milky Way: Punctum books, cop. 2020. Str. 197-235. ISBN 978-1-953035-10-3, ISBN 978-1-953035-11-0. [COBISS.SI-ID 44744963]
PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Strukturni rasizem, teorija in oblast. Ljubljana: Sophia, 2019. XXV, 335 str., ilustr. Zbirka Naprej!. ISBN 978-961-7003-43-7. ISSN 2385-880X. [COBISS.SI-ID 303350016]
GRŽINIĆ, Marina, PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Utopias, heterotopias and dystophias : predavanje na seminarju "Confrontations: East European Art History - Session in Ljubljana", Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova - MG+MSUM, Ljubljana (SLO), 21. mar. 2019. [COBISS.SI-ID 45971501]
PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Rasa, družbeni spol, postpolitično. Dialogi. 2017, letn. 53, št. 11/12, str. 178-193. ISSN 0012-2068. [COBISS.SI-ID 43232301]
PRISTOVŠEK, Jovita. Sublime, race, racialization : formalization, necessity, contingency. Art + media : AM. [Print ed.]. 2017, no. 14, str. 45-56. ISSN 2217-9666. https://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/400/237, DOI: 10.25038/am.v0i14.202. [COBISS.SI-ID 43240493]
Current post
Research Assistant, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU
Education
Doctorate in Philosophy, 2017, “Regimes of the Aesthetics, Public and Political in Post-Political Public Space,” Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana
Master of Arts, 2012, “The Context of Contemporary Art Practices,” Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
Academic painter, 2008, “Image and Context,” Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
Scholarships and awards
»Inovativna shema za sofinanciranje doktorskega študija za spodbujanje sodelovanja z gospodarstvom in reševanja aktualnih družbenih izzivov – generacija 2011«
Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity Honorary Mention 2022: Platform »Digital Research Travelogues through European Archives« (Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Sophie Uitz), FWF-PEEK AR 439
Languages
Slovene (mother tongue), Serbian/Croatian (fluent), English (fluent)
Teaching experience
Guest lecturer, course: “Contemporary Theory of Art and Culture, and the Aesthetics of New Technologies,” Prof. dr. Marina Gržinić’s course, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU (2018 –)
Assistant Professor, AVA – Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana (2009–2023)
Research interests
race, racialization, biopolitics, necropolitics, sovereignty, decoloniality, sublime, public, political, conviviality, community