Irena Haiduk’s Seductive Exacting Realism has at its centerpiece an interview between the artist and Srđa Popović, one of the former leaders of a non-violent student movement that deposed Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milošević and co-founder of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). Their conversation, and in turn the project, touches on the parallels between the activist and artist as agents of social change, and their participation in a larger system of funding that links them to controversial organizations such as Stratfor, an intelligence firm who support CANVAS.

We’ve collected below links that offer further information and context on these issues and Haiduk’s work; more will be added as the exhibition progresses.

• Irena Haiduk’s website

Texts

• “Against Biography” by Irena Haiduk (PDF)
• “In Blindness” by Irena Haiduk (PDF)
• “Waiting Rules” by Ivo Andrić (PDF), from Notebooks 1942-1974, Collected Works, Vol. 17, Udruženi Izdavaci (United Publishers): Svjetlost, Prosveta, Mladost, Državna zalozba Slovenije, Misla, Pobjeda, 1981, 220-223. Translated by Irena Haiduk in 2015.
• “The Rules of the Game” by Hannah Feldman (PDF), to be published in Irena Haiduk, Seductive Exacting Realism by Marcel Proust 12
• “Realismically Speaking, Irena Haiduk” by Monika Szewczyk (PDF), published in Mousse 60, October 2015

Music

“Complaint punk” songs from each of these albums play in the Seductive Exacting Realism waiting room. They were selected for their subject matter of boredom and transition.

• Disciplina Kičme: Sviđa mi se da ti ne bude prijatno (1983)
• Ekatarina Velika: Katarina II (1984)
• Šarlo Akrobata, Električni Orgazam, Idoli: Paket Aranžman (1981)

CANVAS

• CANVAS’s website, including a library of their publications to download, such as A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle
• Video of “How to topple a dictator”, Srđa Popović’s Nov 2011 TEDxKrakow talk
• Wikileaks’ Global Intelligence Files, more than five million emails from Stratfor which exposed their involvement with CANVAS