CUKR Magazine #2
A magazine about art and life
Theme of the issue: Gender
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The photo essay takes readers to Maribor, to the band .travnik, whose debut Pubeci ne jočejo (“Boys Don’t Cry”) gives musical form to the sound of masculine emotionality. In an in-depth music interview, Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley discuss how art can be decoded through one’s own emotional and life experiences. We also publish a pop-cultural essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a (failed?) feminist, and an interview with American art historian Jasmina Tumbas, who examines emancipatory artistic practices in socialist Yugoslavia through the lens of pop icons. We include Slovenian translations of two essential essays addressing women in art and female sexuality as labour. The first, Women in the Picture by British art historian Catherine McCormack, explores ways of relearning how to observe and critically analyse the depiction of women in classical (and contemporary) art. The second is a translation of Silvia Federici’s cult text Why Sexuality Is Work, accompanied by visual interventions by the feminist collective Sve su to vještice. We also publish an essay by Slavoj Žižek on gendered war rhetoric as manifested in the war in Ukraine, corresponding with the work of Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan.
The theme of GENDER is further illuminated from various perspectives through columns, poems, even a short screenplay—and, of course, through the magazine’s rich visual content.
More than thirty authors contributed to the content and visual design of the magazine, among them: Dino Pešut, Anja Zag Golob, Mojca Kumerdej, Iza Strehar, Eva Mahkovic, Katja Perat, Manca G. Renko, Luka T. Zagoričnik, Alenka Gregorič, Jedrt Maležič, Ena Jurov, Ana Lucija Šarić, Anja Šlibar, Luka Hernet, Kladnik&Neon, Ulay, and many others.
The magazine was created at the initiative of Cukrarna.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Manca G. Renko
Editorial Board: Dr. Jela Krečič, Alenka Gregorič, Blaž Peršin
Art Editorial: Ajdin Bašić
Publisher: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Summer 2022