Jelena Vesić is an independent curator, lecturer, writer and editor. She is active in the field  of publishing, research and exhibition practice that intertwines political theory and contemporary art. She is co-editor of Red Thread  – Journal for social theory, contemporary art and activism and member of editorial board of Art Margins. She was co-editor of Prelom – Journal of Images and Politics 2001-2009 and co-founder of independent organization Prelom Kolektiv 2005-2010 (Belgrade). Vesić explores the relations between art and ideology in the field of geopolitical art history writing, focusing on experimental art and exhibition practices of the 1960s and 1970s in former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe; She also writes on artistic labour and practices of self-organisation in the environment of cognitive capitalism. Her latest projects are based on experiments with the form of lecture-performance, immaterial quality of the exhibits and story telling: Oktobar XXX: Exposition – Symposium – Performance, On Undercurrents of Negotiating Artistic Jobs – Between Love and Money, Between Money and Love, Exhibition on Work and Laziness.