Interdisciplinary Conference

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in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

TITO IS NOT DEAD! (2025) Interactive Video Screening with Q&A

Event Hours: 10/09/2025 (15:30)

Location: Komuna - Kino Šiška

Marko Markovic

Marko Markovic’s TITO IS NOT DEAD! reflects on the symbolic afterlife of Josip Broz Tito, whose death in 1980 marked both the end of an era and the slow dissolution of Yugoslavia. Through a 9-minute video followed by a live reading and audience engagement, the work invites participants to confront the inevitability of mortality by imagining their own death—whether mundane, tragic, or absurd. By weaving personal fantasies of disappearance with collective memory, the piece challenges taboos around death while foregrounding the tension between private experience and shared history. The performance concludes with an interactive Q&A, ensuring at least one voice from the local audience is included in the dialogue.

Marko Markovic

Marko Marković is an artistic researcher focused on collective engagement in self-organized societies that create autonomous models of coexistence with performative communication strategies. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Split and the University of Zadar (psychology and pedagogy), and earned a Master’s degree in Arts and Sciences at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he also worked as a program coordinator. From 2008 to 2018, he was the artistic director and curator of the DOPUST / Days of Open Performance festival. In 2011, he won the Radoslav Putar Award for young visual artists. Between 2012 and 2014, he worked in the production of Matthew Barney’s studio in New York. His works have been presented at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2016, La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale Sessions Giardini 2019, the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2016, and Kunsthalle Wien in 2023. As a project researcher in the scientific team at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, researching human-robot interactions in 2022/2023. He is a zombie member of TTT society.

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