Dr. Daša Tepina

dasa.tepina@ung.si

Sicris

Research activity

Daša Tepina is researching artistic practices, utopias and social movements from the second half of the 19th century onwards. Her work focuses on artistic practices, autonomy, avant-gardes, revolutionary-aesthetic potentials and visual codes, cultural practices of non-alignment and biennial encounters, as well as revolutionary utopias and the history of social movements and anti-authoritarian perspectives. Drawing on archival sources, intrusions and digitised sources, it examines cultural history and social dynamics in the field of art, artistic practices and social movements through a critical discursive sociological analysis.

Research areas and keywords

art, social movements, utopias, non-alignment, artistic practices

Selected publications

- TEPINA, Daša. Revolucionarne utopije : anarhizem v praksah in teorijah, (Zbirka Dialogi, Letn. 21). Maribor: Aristej, 2022.

- GRAFENAUER, Petja, TEPINA, Daša. Cuban representation at the Biennial of Graphic Arts and non-aligned cultural policy. The international journal of cultural policy. [Print ed.], 30/2, 2024, str. 207-219, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2023.2177646.

- TEPINA, Daša, GRAFENAUER, Petja. Art and revolt : from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia to today. Anthropos : časopis za psihologijo in filozofijo ter za sodelovanje humanističnih ved, 56/1, 2024, str. 37-58, DOI: 10.26493/2630-4082.56.37-58.- TEPINA, Daša. Yugoslav–Egyptian cultural relations : a case study of art intersections in Ljubljana and Alexandria in the 1960s and 1970s. V: PREDAN, Barbara (ur.), TEPINA, Daša (ur.). The culture of the non-aligned : the clash of cultural and political narratives. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press, 2023. Str. 199-221. DOI: 10.51938/9789612971427.

- TEPINA, Daša. Umetniška stičišča : utopije - neuvrščenost. V: PREDAN, Barbara (ur.). Robovi, stičišča in utopije prijateljstva : spregledane kulturne izmenjave v senci politike, (Zbirka Vpogledi, 25). Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino: Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, 2022.

- GRAFENAUER, Petja, TEPINA, Daša. Art and rebellion : the struggle for freedom and autonomy at the Ljubljana 2020/2021 protests. Third text, 36/5, 2022, str. 409-428, DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2022.2132025.

- TEPINA, Daša. Anarchism and the history of social movements in Slovenia. Journal of breath research, 2/20, 2021, str. 1-16. DOI: 10.22409/rcc.v2i20.62155.

Dr. Daša Tepina, born 26 December 1982 in Ljubljana, is a sociologist of culture and history and holds a PhD in sociology. She regularly publishes in national and international scientific journals on topics related to art, non-alignment and social movements. In 2022, she published the monograph Revolutionary Utopias: Anarchism in Practices and Theories with the publishing house Aristej. She is currently working on the research project J7-2606 Models and Practices of Global Cultural Exchange and Non-aligned Movement. Research in the Spatio-Temporal Cultural Dynamics and J6-3144 Protests, Art Practices and Culture of Memory in the Post-Yugoslav Context, funded by the Slovenian research agency ARRS. She has been an assistant professor of art theory at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, UL, and a researcher at the Chair of Theory since 2020. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Nova Gorica since 2023.