Specifically, I explore how and to what effect comics author Aleksandar Zograf and neo-avant-garde painter Leonid Šejka incorporate discarded objects into their artwork. This article investigates the way in which popular culture from (the former) Yugoslavia in the 1950s–1960s and today performs cultural memory. This evolution also has brought about an increased interest in the role of and interaction between different media, including those associated with popular culture, in processes of cultural remembering. Recent developments in memory studies show a shift from a concept of cultural memory as bound to specific, often institutionalized memory sites to an understanding of cultural memory as an active engagement of actors in the present with the past.
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