Petra Matić
@petramatic.bsky.social
Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.
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Petra Matić
@petramatic.bsky.social
· Nov 17
The Non-Aligned Archive (Arhiv Nesvrstanih) is the most exciting project I am working on. It is a digital archive documenting the presence of African, Asian, and American communities in Croatia, and will be publicly presented in May 2025, online and offline.
I would love to spend more time on Bluesky, but the endless stream of the U.S. politics is so draining. I'd prefer to learn about other countries.
June 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I would love to spend more time on Bluesky, but the endless stream of the U.S. politics is so draining. I'd prefer to learn about other countries.
Glad to speak with Peter Korchnak on Remembering Yugoslavia about the legacy of non-alignment, erased Global South student histories, and the urgency behind the Nonaligned Archive.
🎧 yugoblok.com/nonaligned-m...
🌍 www.arhivnesvrstanih.org
#nonalignedarchive #Zagreb
🎧 yugoblok.com/nonaligned-m...
🌍 www.arhivnesvrstanih.org
#nonalignedarchive #Zagreb
June 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Glad to speak with Peter Korchnak on Remembering Yugoslavia about the legacy of non-alignment, erased Global South student histories, and the urgency behind the Nonaligned Archive.
🎧 yugoblok.com/nonaligned-m...
🌍 www.arhivnesvrstanih.org
#nonalignedarchive #Zagreb
🎧 yugoblok.com/nonaligned-m...
🌍 www.arhivnesvrstanih.org
#nonalignedarchive #Zagreb
Heritage at its best
No way 😂😂😂😂😂😂
We’ve heard of statues being destroyed or smashed,
but sitting on them and tying them to a car? That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.
We’ve heard of statues being destroyed or smashed,
but sitting on them and tying them to a car? That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.
December 8, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Heritage at its best
I really really wanna see this!
#DRCongo I've been deeply privileged to attend classes with Johan Grimonprez on the audio production of his new documentary 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' - this film is extraordinary I cannot recommend it enough.
December 8, 2024 at 11:22 AM
I really really wanna see this!
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It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”
December 8, 2024 at 4:32 AM
It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”
Privileged to hear the brilliant Panafrican Society in Croatia yesterday at the Human Rights Film Festival. The # of Africans in Croatia ranges from a few hundred to thousands—listen to the realities of living in a small peripheral country desperately trying to prove its whiteness.
Panel on racism and culture: Oladayo and Abbey from PADUH - Panafričko društvo u Hrvatskoj - HRFF
YouTube video by Petra Matic
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December 8, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Privileged to hear the brilliant Panafrican Society in Croatia yesterday at the Human Rights Film Festival. The # of Africans in Croatia ranges from a few hundred to thousands—listen to the realities of living in a small peripheral country desperately trying to prove its whiteness.
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A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
In case you find yourself in Sofia this weekend, my short film The City That Has Peace will be playing at Toplocentrala as part of the Forgetting to Remember exhibition, curated by Simina Neagu, along with works of Voin de Voin, Simina Neagu, and Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan.
December 2, 2024 at 8:36 PM
In case you find yourself in Sofia this weekend, my short film The City That Has Peace will be playing at Toplocentrala as part of the Forgetting to Remember exhibition, curated by Simina Neagu, along with works of Voin de Voin, Simina Neagu, and Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan.
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Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?
looks like graze.social makes it extremely easy to emulate the following feed of any other user on the network — see through someone else's "eyes" instantly! super cool
November 28, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?
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I have started teaching Sara Ahmed’s the organization of hate routinely as I deal with a decidedly more right wing student body post Covid and nothing has been more effective. To explain that love- of a sovereign community abstract, unreal and narrowly defined- is the beginning of hate is effective.
November 29, 2024 at 2:16 AM
I have started teaching Sara Ahmed’s the organization of hate routinely as I deal with a decidedly more right wing student body post Covid and nothing has been more effective. To explain that love- of a sovereign community abstract, unreal and narrowly defined- is the beginning of hate is effective.
Odur Ronald is one of my favorite contemporary artists. He just represented Uganda at the Venice Bienniale. This is his work "National Budget"
November 21, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Odur Ronald is one of my favorite contemporary artists. He just represented Uganda at the Venice Bienniale. This is his work "National Budget"
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now
1. Hostel cleaner
2. Guest manager in nautical tourism (living on the yacht)
3. Ceramic souvenir painter
4. Gold buyer
5. Band/tour manager
6. Language tutor
7. Bicycle courier
8. Train stewardess (one I despised the most)
1. Hostel cleaner
2. Guest manager in nautical tourism (living on the yacht)
3. Ceramic souvenir painter
4. Gold buyer
5. Band/tour manager
6. Language tutor
7. Bicycle courier
8. Train stewardess (one I despised the most)
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now.
1. McDonald's crewmember (4 weeks 🤣)
2. Admin assistant in the DWP
3. Gauge block inspector in a metrology lab
4. Teaching assistant in a primary school
5. Outreach Officer then Learning Manager at Bletchley Park
1. McDonald's crewmember (4 weeks 🤣)
2. Admin assistant in the DWP
3. Gauge block inspector in a metrology lab
4. Teaching assistant in a primary school
5. Outreach Officer then Learning Manager at Bletchley Park
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now.
1. Farmers Market Director
2. Reading & Writing Tutor
3. Beginners Russian Language Tutor
4. Museum Education Facilitator
5. Book Subscription Box Curator
6. Copy Editor
1. Farmers Market Director
2. Reading & Writing Tutor
3. Beginners Russian Language Tutor
4. Museum Education Facilitator
5. Book Subscription Box Curator
6. Copy Editor
November 21, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now
1. Hostel cleaner
2. Guest manager in nautical tourism (living on the yacht)
3. Ceramic souvenir painter
4. Gold buyer
5. Band/tour manager
6. Language tutor
7. Bicycle courier
8. Train stewardess (one I despised the most)
1. Hostel cleaner
2. Guest manager in nautical tourism (living on the yacht)
3. Ceramic souvenir painter
4. Gold buyer
5. Band/tour manager
6. Language tutor
7. Bicycle courier
8. Train stewardess (one I despised the most)
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Please consider boosting Li's call for support and send her as many good vibes as you can. Words can't describe what she must be going through right now after over a decade of being stealth...
Below is a Twitter screenshot of Li's latest post in English.
Below is a Twitter screenshot of Li's latest post in English.
November 21, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Please consider boosting Li's call for support and send her as many good vibes as you can. Words can't describe what she must be going through right now after over a decade of being stealth...
Below is a Twitter screenshot of Li's latest post in English.
Below is a Twitter screenshot of Li's latest post in English.
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I was massively attacked when I last said this (including on instagram and linked in because some folks are batshit) so naturally I say it again: the word “terrorist” is a racialized slur that people of conscience should stop using all together.
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 PM
I was massively attacked when I last said this (including on instagram and linked in because some folks are batshit) so naturally I say it again: the word “terrorist” is a racialized slur that people of conscience should stop using all together.
Museum of Archaeology, University of Ghana
November 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Museum of Archaeology, University of Ghana
My 2023 interview with ruangrupa. We talked property, collectivism, visa inequality, culture financing, rest, and using one's own languages. kulturpunkt.hr/rubrike/alte...
Alternative Economies of Collectivity
I met members of the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa for the first time in the summer of 2021 when I ...
kulturpunkt.hr
November 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM
My 2023 interview with ruangrupa. We talked property, collectivism, visa inequality, culture financing, rest, and using one's own languages. kulturpunkt.hr/rubrike/alte...
We're attending a meetup of African and European museum professionals. I've spent the last two days in my hotel room recovering from a cold, and just woke up to a bunch of messages from my colleagues checking in on me 🥹🥹🥹. I feel so grateful. Community is EVERYTHING. Relationships are EVERYTHING
November 19, 2024 at 6:29 AM
We're attending a meetup of African and European museum professionals. I've spent the last two days in my hotel room recovering from a cold, and just woke up to a bunch of messages from my colleagues checking in on me 🥹🥹🥹. I feel so grateful. Community is EVERYTHING. Relationships are EVERYTHING
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"Yes, but we can't 'afford' to address the climate issue right now. It will have to wait until better times."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates
Analysis shows at least $2.8tn in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heatwaves
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2023 at 5:53 AM
"Yes, but we can't 'afford' to address the climate issue right now. It will have to wait until better times."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated.
Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
More than 61,000 dead in Khartoum state alone, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group finds: 26,000 of them killed as a direct result of the violence. Leading cause of death across Sudan is preventable disease and starvation.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan war: Death toll far higher than previously reported - study
More than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, where the fighting began last year, researchers say.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated.
Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
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The Philippines have now been hit by four typhoons in the span of just 10 days.
Can't say I recall ever seeing this before.
Can't say I recall ever seeing this before.
November 17, 2024 at 11:35 AM
The Philippines have now been hit by four typhoons in the span of just 10 days.
Can't say I recall ever seeing this before.
Can't say I recall ever seeing this before.
Africans officially made it to Croatia in the 20th century. At the Sorbonne in Paris in 1934, the Croatian linguist Petar Guberina met Aimé Césaire, and the two students soon became the best of friends.
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Briefly on Africa in Croatia
Although there is no evidence of an African presence on Croatian territory before the 19th century, Croatia's proximity to Africa makes it possible to envision these connections going back a long way.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Africans officially made it to Croatia in the 20th century. At the Sorbonne in Paris in 1934, the Croatian linguist Petar Guberina met Aimé Césaire, and the two students soon became the best of friends.
open.substack.com/pub/petramat...
open.substack.com/pub/petramat...
uh oh
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 AM
uh oh