Marko Stamenkovic

Marko Stamenkovic

Serbia

(Serbia, lives in Ghent). Curator and art historian. Since 2011 he has been working as a PhD researcher at the University of Ghent (Center for Ethical and Moral Research, Faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences). He is a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). He has worked with projects dealing with points of intersection between the visual arts and the economy in Central Europe (art-e-conomy). His current interest is focused on the transformation of suicide that, from being the modernist paradigm, has become a new transcultural paradigm of radical withdrawal. (Three suicide regimes). His doctoral thesis “Suicide Cultures. Theories and Practices of Radical Withdrawal-A Transnational Cultural and Media Parading (2001-2011)”emphasizes the changing nature, dramatic reality and expanded meaning, “bio-ethics”and visual meaning of the suicidal phenomenon as a symptom of The global media culture of the 21st century.

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