Title: SRAMOTA - SHAME
Author(s): NON-GRUPA
Photographer(s): Željko Stevanić / IFP, Janez Zalaznik, Borut Krajnc, Miloš Srdić, Božidar Flajšman, Janez Janša, Uroš Abram, MzK, Anon
Writer(s):
Designer(s): Irena Wolle
Publisher(s): Institute of Culture and Memory Studies,Založba ZRC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Year: 2022
Print run: 1000
Pages: 176
Size: 27 x 41 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Collegium Graphicum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Slovenia, 2020 - 2021
ISBN: 978-961-05-0602-7
https://zalozba.zrc-sazu.si/sl/publikacije/sramota
With a parliamentary maneuver in the years 2020 and 2021 Slovenia is being aggressively pushed towards illiberal democracies. Artists are opposing the dark backwardness and destructivity of that process with their means.
Urša Chitrakar, Non-Grupa’s official representative, said that “the group’s aim is to draw attention to social injustice and the unacceptable erosion of people’s rights – we believe in a community-based horizontal approach here and now”.In the name of the book’s publisher Založba ZRC, the publishing unit of Slovenia’s Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), philosopher Peter Klepec of SAZU’s Philosophy Institute shared his views on the publication and the definitions of shame.
Klepec said that shame was typically “a feeling of discomfort and intense embarrassment,” and that the photographic monograph Shame was “similarly heavy, difficult to read and difficult to handle”.
He added that it was fitting that Tuesday’s Culture Day holiday should also be commemorated with this monograph, saying that culture in Slovenia was born out of resistance against being shamed as a less developed nation, and that much of the first attempts of cultural creation in Slovenia were aimed at avoiding this ridicule and shame.