Abstract
This essay surveys a pedagogical project that reenacted archival artifacts of the former Yugoslav Civil Defense from the period of the Cold War and a few years before the collapse of socialism in 1991. During the course in Spatial Theory held at the Academy of Arts in Osijek (Croatia), students created a series of performances and art works. The works re-embodied a complex constellation of archival material juxtaposed with reenacted images performed in public space of the city and the space of the Academy. Having in mind the fact that found footage was used in times of socialism to educate and train citizens how to (re)act and perform in a situation of nuclear attacks, the material can be regarded as a potential source to examine signifiers (and ideologies) of socialism. As the performances triggered repressed traces of the fear-provoking scenario of a potential nuclear attack, what resurfaced was the pedagogy of a suppressed ideological model. The intention of the essay is to demonstrate how reviving training material from the past (and originating in a different political system) can be critically reactivated for the purpose of developing experimental formats of artistic education.
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