Zoe Gudović
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zoe gudović is a lesbian artist, feminist, activist, multidisciplinary art practitioner, cultural manager, producer, and organizer. Whether acting as a theater educator, performer, Drag King transformer, or Toilet artist, she combines artistic and activist methods in order to change the existing consciousness and social relations. She focuses on issues of body and space, sexuality, intimacy, and publicity. She always finds herself in the struggle for social justice. In 2016 she earned a Master of Arts degree in cultural management at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She comes from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and from October 2021 she lives in Vienna.
Since 1995, she has been involved in the work and research of informal and engaged theater forms. Gudović was also the founder or part of different groups and collectives such as Women at Work, Act Women, Queer Belgrade, Charming Princess (music band), Reconstruction Women's Fund; a lecturer at Women’s Studies (Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade), on the topic of Feminist Art in Public Space; an organizer of street engagement performances against violence against women and numerous campaigns for the visibility of LGBTQ +, women’s human rights and people from the margins. Since 2001, she has connected artists from all over the world with activists from Serbia under the name “Women’s Movement - Women’s Theater - Women’s Body” Winner of the Jelena Šantić Award for a combination of art and activism. Winner of Befem’s Feminist Achievement Award for promoting feminism outside the feminist movement.
Zoe got scholarships/residencies: Handle with care selected by BEATE, brut wien, 2022, Goethe institute Serbia, 2018/2019/2020, Art residence Villa Waldberta, Munich, 2018 and 2019
She edits and hosts the radio show Ženergija once a week live on ORANGE94.0.
Fellowship: D/Arts, Wien
The media campaign/project titled “PresenD/Arts” has starting point in the idea of D/Arts itself. D/Arts is imagined as a connecting point between different actors - artists, cultural workers, cultural institutions and cultural policy. This connecting point acts through usage of media content that would contribute to greater visibility of both: the cultural policy of D/Arts and the members of its own network. At the same time, this project develops a strategy to connect artistic initiatives and collectives with media portals, newspapers and radio shows.