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Senka Milutinović

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Senka Milutinović's work is in the realm of media theory, queering narrative formats, alternative archival practices and experimental publishing. Much of their work concerns doing and sharing research, as well as organizing communities around learning together, in an effort to change how knowledge is distributed. The format of their work varies anywhere from organizing nomadic reading clubs to experimental radio shows, to interactive printed matter and digital interactive storytelling. What binds these different projects is imagining alternatives to the oppressive forces we are living under and bridging the gap between the personal and political.

Why Read Together?: On Companions, Co-conspirators and Breathing Words
Why Read Together?: On Companions, Co-conspirators and Breathing Words - This book is a companion for collective reading, especially collective reading that sits outside of institutional spaces. It has been crafted by Reading Rhythms Club. The pages within this book document a year-long experimental reading curriculum that explored the different social, political, and economic matters which affect our everyday lives. From the way protest chants travel across localities, to the language of gentrification, to the role of food in queer community building practices. This book includes playful reading methods such as performative storytelling, spatial reading choreographies, and critical neighbourhood walks, alongside a conversation on the urgency of collective reading.
Baggage Claim
Baggage Claim - Along with a 3D platformer game, Baggage Claim also features a reading performance in drag which questions ‘What can be done to get out of the one-way street in which LGBTQIA+ questions are considered a marker of Europeanness?’ and which forgotten queer histories would help us imagine the future differently? It tackles these questions by exploring what the political imaginary of queerness (in the Balkans) could be through critical fabulation, building world-building and time travel.
Baggage Claim: Fictioning with Queer Balkan Pasts that Nourish our Political Imaginary
Baggage Claim: Fictioning with Queer Balkan Pasts that Nourish our Political Imaginary - The theoretical backbone of the game Baggage Claim is an thesis I wrote which you can read here: https://project.xpub.nl/baggage-claim/SM_Baggage-Claim_thesis_Online.pdf
Baggage Claim
Baggage Claim - This work re-imagines haunting histories which pertain to queer/trans and immigrant communities whose rights are being taken away rapidly due to rising fascism. Digital remembrance serves as a way to reach people globally and act against the harmful grand narratives which endanger the very existence of these communities through legislation, digital epidermalization and increased surveillance. And most importantly, through fiction and queer world-building, this project, instead of giving into despair, cultivates wonder.
Baggage Claim
Baggage Claim - Baggage Claim is a archiving project that unearths queer Balkan pasts in the format of a 3D game. It departs from the airport as a site where both gender and national identity are scrutinized and policed, and moves through both (digital) space and time to meet potential queer ancestors in fabulated sites they might have passed through. It aims to fight homonationalist narratives which posit queerness as an inherently Western phenomenon, and the non-Western immigrant as the ‘backwards’ other. The work can be accessed here: https://baggage-claim.senkamilutinovic.com/ Sound by NDNMK Solutions
Marginalia
Marginalia - Marginalia is an open, collaborative article annotation and publishing platform that enables contributions from collectives and individuals, created by Arran Lyon and Senka. It takes the margins as a space of not often recognized knowledge creation, that is just as important, if not more so than the main body of text. It is being developed for the use of collectives and initiatives, research groups, reading clubs, collective learning endeavors and students that need open-source free tools for collaborative work or hybrid working environments. Marginalia is built to be self-hosted and lightweight. The platform can be accessed and used here: https://margi-nalia.site/
Reading Rhythms Club Curriculum
Reading Rhythms Club Curriculum - Posters of some of the Reading Rhythms Club session hosted with Julia Wilhelm in collaboration with Yusser al Obaidi, KIOSK Rotterdam and Cultural Workers Unite. (Designed by Senka Milutinović)
Reading Rhythms Club
Reading Rhythms Club - Reading Rhythms Club is an experimental nomadic reading group that carves out spaces for communal learning. The reading method is finetuned depending on the frequency of a text and genre, and we read and absorb anything from poetry to feminist sci-fi to album readings. For each session, we conspire with invited guests to stir up fertile debris of literary rhythms. This happens in a variety of locations, from cultural spaces to gardens and park benches. Reading Rhythms Club is hosted by Julia Wilhelm and Senka Milutinović. Photo by Lea Novi.
A Momentary Lapse in Memory: An Inquiry into (Re)Memory and Trauma Embodiment
A Momentary Lapse in Memory: An Inquiry into (Re)Memory and Trauma Embodiment - An essay which is the theoretical backbone of the project was published with Amsterdam Museum Journal and can be read here: https://assets.amsterdammuseum.nl/downloads/A-Momentary-Lapse-in-Memory_Senka-Milutinović-1753812622.pdf
Momentary Lapse in Memory
Momentary Lapse in Memory - The work can be accessed digitally here http://www.momentarylapse.space/ .
Momentary Lapse in Memory
Momentary Lapse in Memory - Momentary Lapse in Memory is an interactive digital environment concerning the memory landscape of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. It investigates the impact of ephemeral factors on the archival practice. It makes space for the unreliable mechanisms of both memory and its transmission, to steer and sway. This multi-sensory experience consists of the recorded oral history of my friends and family who were present in a heavily impacted district during the bombing. The interviews are presented in interactive digital environments, or memory “rooms”. Each room has a soundscape of the interviewee’s sound-related memories, both calming ones and sonic warfare. It was exhibited in Amsterdam Museum as part of Refresh Amsterdam 2.
Nightly Manifesto
Nightly Manifesto - Nightly Manifesto is an ongoing research podcast started by Keö & Senka and currently lead by Julia & Senka. Sometimes fictitious, most often factual, the show tries to dissect and understand the complexities of critical matters through talking and sharing relating sounds. It delves into the meanings and origins of things with less focus on bearing answers, more on proposing questions. Leading up to a show, we collage research along with personal experience. During the episode we stir all of this up by thinking through talking with each other and invited guests.
LAWKI-ALIVE
LAWKI-ALIVE - Performance from Milla Kaarina in the LAWKI-ALIVE installation at MU Hybrid Art House (EIndhoven). Photo by Hanneke Wetzer.
LAWKI ALIVE
LAWKI-ALIVE - LAWKI reflects our Zeitgeist: poignant, generative, and immersive at the intersection of tech, design, and visual arts. LAWKI is connected directly to the main artery of our age: the endless stream where we lose ourselves entirely as a natural part of daily life that seamlessly integrates into the rhythm of eating, working, sleeping, and leisure. The social platforms have life itself disappearing from view and omit our ability to experience and embrace our reality. According to philosopher Federico Campagna, who joined ARK with LAWKI, Technic is best opposed by Magic. The installation is the proxy perspective of life as we know it, and projects its delusions in extreme mastery onto a compositional backdrop with LED tiles. The spectator is a consumer of the spectacle and participates in the making process by moving between the screens. During a ‘walk of wonder,’ their presence generates new compositions, triggered directly by their movements, a techno-haptic entanglement. LAWKI is a sensitive, globally branched-out site-specific instrument. It slows down or accelerates on the rhythm of our attention - a live stream formed by association. And if you feel at a loss for words, you’re experiencing the magic. Technic is the new magic. Photo by Hanneke Wetzer.
LAWKI NOW
LAWKI-NOW - Choir performance for LAWKI-NOW at Aa-kerk (Groningen), photo by Sven Sleur.
LAWKI NOW
LAWKI-NOW - LAWKI is a nomadic audiovisual instrument by ARK. The screen-based installation collects online videos and combines them with a sound composition that responds to visitor movements, directed by an Artificial Intelligence- and Machine Learning-led algorithm. The first installation was in the Akerk at Noorderlicht, using an artificial- and a real choir. The third iteration took place at MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven with dancers. ARK consists of designers and researchers Louis Braddock Clarke, Roosje Klap, Senka Milutinović, and Zuzanna Zgierska, philosopher Federico Campagna, composer Teoniki Rożynek, and computer scientists Arran Lyon and Valentin Vogelmann. Photo by Sven Sleur.

Publication Launch ‘Why Read Together? On Companions, Co-conspirators, and Breathing Words’

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Locatie: Varia, Gouwstraat 3, 3082 BA
In samenwerking met: Publisher: HumDrumPress The book has contributions from: Amy Gowen, Carla Arcos, Cultural Workers Unite, Julian Crestian, Katayun Taraporevala, KIOSK Rotterdam (Flip Driest), Lea Novi, Leomar Imperator, Queer Rotterdam (Sofia Carnelli), Queer Feminist Books (Sam Portnoy), Sami Hammana, Tomi, Christian and the volunteers of the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats, Wibke Bramesfeld, WORKNOT! (Golnar Abbasi and Arvand Pourabbasi), and Yusser al Obaidi.

‘Why Read Together? On Companions, Co-conspirators, and Breathing Words’ documents the year-long reading curriculum we organised in 2024 that explored different social, political, and economic matters which affect our everyday lives. From the way protest chants travel across localities, to the language of gentrification, to the role of food in queer community building practices. This book includes playful reading methods that open up communal space for learning.

https://humdrumpress.com/why-read-together

Reading Rhythms Club Open Books Session

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Locatie: Snackbar Frieda
In samenwerking met: Reading Rhythms Club, HumDrumPress

This event was organised as a part of Reading Rhythms Club (with Julia Wilhelm) in collaboration with our publisher HumDrumPress, accompanied the process of putting together a publication that documents the last year’s reading curriculum of RRC and reflects on the urgency of collective reading. This event was part of the HumDrumPress: “Open Book” event series, which makes ideas and content of publications publicly accessible and visible from the early moments of a publishing cycle.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHLcFsINXsO/

Netherlands Film Festival Research Fellowship

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In samenwerking met: The Netherlands Film Festival

As part of the ARK collective (Arran Lyon, Roosje Klap, Louis Braddock Clarke, Senka Milutinović, Teoniki Rożynek, Valentin Vogelmann and Zuzanna Zgierska), I examined knowledge production in audio-visual archives with machine-earning algorithms as a co-creator.

https://www.filmfestival.nl/en/news/ark-on-their-fellowship-research-and-experience
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