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