Jonida Gashi Explained

Jonida Gashi (born in 1984 in Fier) is an Albanian cultural theorist and senior researcher at the Centre for Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of Albania.[1]

Career

She completed her MRes and PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium, University of London.[2] Gashi is editor-in-chief of the journal Art Studies, published annually by the Academy of Albanological Studies.[3]

Gashi is specialized in cinema and moving image art during the Albanian communist period. She has published about the cinematic work of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj,[4] communist show trials,[5] [6] and the politics or exhibiting communist archives.[7]

As one of the directors of the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art,[8] Gashi led the open-letter campaign against the demolition of Albanian National Theatre,[9] leading to publications in Albanian,[10] French,[11] Italian,[12] and English,[13] gathering hundreds of signatures. She has linked the artwashing tactics of the Edi Rama government in Albania directly to the eventual destruction of the theater.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kërkuesit shkencorë . Akademia e Shkëncave të Shqipërisë . 14 October 2024.
  2. Web site: Jonida Gashi . ArtMargins . 14 October 2024 . 19 August 2021.
  3. Web site: Revista "Albanian Studies" . Institutet e Albanologjisë . 14 October 2024.
  4. Book: Gashi . Jonida . Scotini . Marco . Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems . 2015 . Sternberg Press . Berlin . 9783956791468 . 177–205 . Cinema and Performance in Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems.
  5. Gashi . Jonida . Cinema on Trial: The Films of the Albanian Communist Show Trials . Visual Past: A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures . 2018 . 5 . 99–114.
  6. Book: Gashi . Jonida . Delahousse . Sarah . Sedzielarz . Aleksander . Transnational Crime Cinema . 2022 . University of Edinburgh Press . Edinburgh . 9781399505697 . 125–139 . Communist Noir: the Hunt for Hidden Traitors, Saboteurs, Spies, Revisionists, and Deviationists in Albania’s Revolutionary Vigilance Films of the 1970s and 1980s.
  7. Gashi . Jonida . Politics of Installation as Politics of the Archive: Three Case Studies . Art Studies . 2020 . 19 . 121–137 . 15 October 2024.
  8. Web site: About . DebatikCenter . 14 October 2024.
  9. Web site: An Open Letter to the International Art Community: STOP ARTWASHING EDI RAMA'S POLITICS . DebatikCenter . 8 October 2024.
  10. News: Letër e hapur drejtuar Komuniteti Ndërkombëtar të Artit: Ndaloni furçat artistike ndaj politikës së Edi Ramës . Exit . 8 October 2024 . 20 May 2020.
  11. News: Albanie : lettre ouverte au monde international des arts sur la politique d'Edi Rama . Courrier des Balkans . 8 October 2024 . 26 May 2020.
  12. News: La lettera aperta degli intellettuali albanesi: perché Edi Rama ha sbagliato a demolire il teatro . Artribune . 8 October 2024 . 2 June 2020.
  13. News: Di Liscia . Valentina . Open Letter Condemns the "Artwashing" of Albanian Prime Minister's Politics . Hyperallergic . 8 October 2024 . 19 May 2020.
  14. Web site: Lau . Sonja . van Gerven Oei . Vincent W.J. . Gashi . Jonida . Three Positions on the Demolition of the National Theatre . Arts of the Working Class . 25 June 2020 . 14 October 2024.

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