Jonida Gashi

Jonida Gashi, lindur më 1984, është kërkuese shkencore në Qendrën e Studimit të Artit të Akademisë së Shkencave të Shqipërisë. Ajo përfundoi PHD në London Consortium, University of London. Interesat e saj kërkimore përfshijnë teorinë dhe kritikën e artit bashkëkohor. Ajo është duke përfunduar monografinë e saj të parë mbi kinokronikat dhe dokumentarët e gjyqeve komuniste dhe ndikimin e tyre në kinemanë e realizmit socialist në Shqipëri. Gashi është redaktore e revistës Art Studies, publikim i përvitshëm i Akademisë së Shkencave, dhe një nga themelueset e DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art. Ajo është anëtare e Manifesto (art collective) by DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art.

Publikime të zgjedhura

• The origins and metamorphoses of ‘avant-garde’ theatricality in communist Albania between 1944-1954”, in The Cultural Theory of the Avant-garde in East Central Europe 1930-1955 – forthcoming by [Brill].

• “Worlds Apart: Growing Pains and Radical Politics in Xhanfise Keko’s Pas Gjurmëve”, in Radical Children’s Film and TV, ed. Noel Brown forthcoming by University of Edinburgh Press.

• “Communist Noir: the Hunt for Hidden Traitors, Saboteurs, Spies, Revisionists, and Deviationists in Albania’s Revolutionary Vigilance Films of the 1970s and 1980s”, in Transnational Crime Cinema, eds. Sarah Delahousse and Aleksander Sedzielarz, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 125–139.

• “Jonida Gashi and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei in Conversation with Blerta Hoçia, Diana Malaj, Pleurad Xhafa, and Ergin Zaloshnja”, in Mineral Policies, ed. Marko Stamenkovic, Tirana: ZETA Contemporary Art Center & Santa Barbara, California: punctum books, 2022, pp. 40–49.

• “Open Archive: A Review”, ARTMargins Online, 19 gusht 2021.

• “Politics of Installation as Politics of the Archive: Three Case Studies”, Art Studies, no. 19, 2020, pp. 121-137.

• “Cinema on Trial: The Films of the Albanian Communist Show Trials”, Visual Past: A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures – Special Issue: Image Senses, no. 5, 2018, pp. 99–114.

• “Le spectateur mobile et le (non-)temps de l’oeuvre”, in D'un écran à l'autre: les mutations du spectateur, ed. Jean Chateauvert and Gilles Delavaud, Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2016, pp. 385–93.

• “These are (not) the things we are fighting for!”, in onMAPS #1: The Space In Between, Tirana, Albania: Museum of Art in Public Space, Mars 2016, pp. 37–41.

• “Cinema and Performance in Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems”, in Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems, ed. by Marco Scotini, Sternberg Press, 2015, pp. 177–205. Jonida Gashi

Prezantime në konferenca

• “Irradicable Evil: Representations of the Enemy in Late Socialist Albanian Cinema”, The Many Ethnographic Faces of the Parasite, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 15 mars 2024.

• “The Archive and the Disaster: The (Un)Making of the Center for Artistic Documentation”, Culture and Catastrophe in Modern Europe, Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago, 1–2 mars 2024.

• “Art as a Medium of Truth”, The Contemporary Gap, ZETA Contemporary Art Center, 11 shtator 2022. Manifesto HIJACKING, 2022

• “Politics of Installation: Three Case Studies”, Space, Site, Installation. Philosophy, Art Theory, Art Practice, University of Padua, 23–24 mars 2022.

• Art and Politics in Southeast Europe, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, online, 17 nëntor 2021.

• “Installing Archives, Exhibiting the Past”, Exhibiting (and) History, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, 6-7 dhjetor 2018.

• “Time and the Problem of Legibility in Contemporary Moving Image Art”, Troubling Time: An Exploration of Temporality in the Arts, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1-2 qershor 2017.

• “The politics of Failure in Contemporary Moving Image Art”, Failure: A One-Day Symposium, Excursions Journal/University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, 28 shtator 2016.

• “The Mobile Spectator and the non-Time of the Work”, From One Screen to Another: The Mutations of the Spectator (D’un écran à l’autre: les mutations du spectateur), Université Paris 8, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Paris, France, 21-23 maj 2014.