ETC. No. 5/ 2026: Full Circle

No matter how many times we vow not to repeat the mistakes and injustices of the past, we seem to do it regardless. In its fifth issue, ETC. Magazine turns its attention to cycles personal, political, historical and asks what it means to come full circle. This issue explores the unstable terrain between the past and history: the former subject to nostalgia and mythologisation; the latter to institutional selectivity. How much do structures of power shape remembrance and commemoration? What role do archives, memorials, and collective memory play, not only in mourning, but in mobilising? And how much of what we know about the past is fictionalised, mythologised or otherwise misshapen and manipulated? Despite claims that we live in unprecedented times, there is much we could learn from history, past dynamics of power and forgotten stories. Full Circle invites artists and writers to consider the loop between memory and amnesia, past and present, reliving and erasing. In this issue, we ask whether we are doomed to repeat the past or can we return to it to rethink the future? PRESENTED ARTISTS Nevena Aleksovski, Martin Atanasov, Damir Avdagi, Maja Bojani, Krasimira Butseva, Center for Peripheries, Luka Cvetkovi, Aleksandra Domanovi, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Indra Gleizde, Lina Ivanova, Ieva Jakusa, Ana Jane, Dana Kavelina, Ana Likar, ron Ldi, Alenka Pirman, Lara Reichmann, Lucija Rosc, Aaron Roth, Judit Flra Schuller, Rayna Teneva, Niya Tsenkova, Sara Perovi, Neja Zorzut CONTRIBUTIONS BY Hana eferin, Hana urak, Flra Gad, Manca G. Renko, Ajda Ana Kocutar, Ena Kuki, Lara Meja, Iva Ramu Cvetkovi, Luka Savi, Margit Sde, Old Mountain Assembly, Vida turm, Vasil Vladimirov, Nace Zavrl