‘Interventions in public space’

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  BOJAN MUCKO – Experience It on Your Own Skin & Emptied in Restitution (Contribution to the Ethnography of Emptiness)

  Workshops: May and September. Presentation of workshops and the book Emptied in Restitution (contribution to the Etnography of Emptiness), published by Heinrich Böll in collaboration with UIII . Greta, 11 October 2012, 7 pm . I am approaching the phenomenon of mass closures and demise of shops in the wider city centre from a pedestrian perspective, looking for the causes of these processes in which once frequented urban veins – Ilica, Tratinska and Ozaljska, and Maksimirska streets – have been transformed into emptied corridors. In the course of my research, I have become aware of my own disciplinary barriers, which is why I am trying to break them by organizing workshops intended for the students […]

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  LUIZA MARGAN – Movement for Space

    spatial interventions, Franjo Tuđman Square and Square of the French Republic, during the festival performance of the Concert for a Sewing Machine and a Tree, Franjo Tuđman Square, 9 October, 6:00 p.m., tone recorded by Milan Čekić   Movement for Space is a project consisting of a number of info-panels set in public space – on Franjo Tuđman Square and Square of the French Republic. The panels are situated on various localities in the park, containing brief textual explanations in which certain aspects of public space are treated as a “threatened species”, thus problematizing the gentrification process and the repurposing of public places. The artist draws attention to the threatened democracy of public space […]

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  ZLATAN KRAJINA – A Casual Flâneur

    performative research, Flower Square, during the festival   The intervention called A Casual Flâneur refers to a series of accidental encounters between the author and the passers-by, in which the artist, with the sensibility of a Parisian stroller (flâneur), whose intimate voyeurism turns him into a critical observer of his surroundings, starts casual, almost accidental conversations about a seemingly unimportant topic: the everyday presence of the advertising screen, which has been flaring from the roof of a building on Flower Square for the past year. The project, of course, has been neither accidental nor banal: even though changes in the urban environment have permanent consequences for the paths along which people move and the […]

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  KONTEKST COLLECTIVE – On Solidarity: Why It Is Important to Reflect on the Student Protests of the 1930s

    audio installation, Oktogon, 6 October 2012, 8:00 p.m., 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. radio drama (coproduction of HR3, The Image of Sound, editor in chief Evelina Turković), HR3, December 2012. Sound technician: Zoran Sajko (HR3), Ognjen Škrborić (Radio Beograd). Sound design: Milan Filipović (Radio Beograd). Actors: Vilim Matula, Maja Katić, Petar Cvirn, Nikša Marjanović, Dejan Bulajić, Dejana Jočović, Luka Mijatović, Slobodan Đukić.   Student protests and blockades, based on the principle of plenum as a direct democratic student body – such as those organized in Belgrade in 2011 or at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 2009 – are an increasingly present phenomenon at the universities of Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Novi Sad, […]

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  DŽAMIL KAMANGER – Working in Ilica

    interventions in public space, Ilica 99, 110, 115, 199, 201. 6, 9, and 10 October 2012, 11:00 a.m.   Dzamil Kamanger started making interventions in public space in 2009. At first, interventions commented immigrants’ position in European metropolises, but now they comment on different issues concerning the place and work he is doing. By making his own handicraft work in Ilica Street, he wanted to aim the focus on the history of the street and its current situation. He wanted to show solidarity especially to the small shop keepers and craftsmen, who has had to give way to new kind of ways of doing business and not always very rightful ones. Dzamil Kamanger (1948, […]

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  KALLE HAMM – Tripartite Slogans on Freedom & Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort

  Tripartite Slogans on Freedom light installation, French Pavilion, 4-7 October 2012 flyers, Student Centre, various localities Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort HD PAL, 16:9, stereo, 18 min, www.urbanfestival.blok.hr   Kalle Hamm: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ou la Mort // Part 1: French Pavilion from [BLOK] on Vimeo. Kalle Hamm wanted to comment on the history and future of the French Pavilion in the Student Center. His work of art is based on the notion that there was an inscription Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité on the top of the main entrance, which is not going to be placed there again in the ongoing renovation. He made an outdoor light installation on the wall of the French Pavilion, […]

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  ŽELJKA BLAKŠIĆ – Whisper – Talk – Sing – Scream

    phase 1 – WhisperTalkSingScream   Originating from the need to reflect upon the current political and social situation in Croatia, especially considering the increasingly frequent social protests during the past two years, the collaborative project with the working title Whisper – Talk – Sing – Scream seeks to create a temporary monument to civic courage and energy. It consists of four main components: a website, a mobile sculpture for city squares, a performance, and a CD. In phase 1, I am creating a website, where I record my process of studying protest songs over a period of several months. Together with various activists and artists, I work on the lyrics in order to create […]

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  INTERVENTIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE

  Franjo Tuđman Square – From Tuđman’s Workshop of Privatization Flower Square: A Draft for Its Spatial Decoding What awaits the Student Centre Thank you for your cooperation, we are closed until further notice – Emptied in Restitution   Franjo Tuđman Square – From Tuđman’s Workshop of Privatization It is the autumn of 2012. At the 13th Venice Biennial of Architecture, Croatia is represented by Pula Group. Their pavilion, named Direct Democracy Demands Direct Space, is an answer to the central theme of the biennial – which is Common Ground. The focal point of Pula Group’s exhibition is the map of the struggle machine assembled – a geographic map of the Croatian protest topography. By using […]

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  WORKING GROUP SC: Methodologies of commemorating sites of suffering

    [BLOK] in cooperation with the Working Group Four Faces of Omarska Readers’ group, public competition, workshop; SC – Savska 25, 13, 14, and 15 October 2012, 2:00 – 7:00 p.m. Round table, SC – Savska 25, 15 October 2012, 8:00 p.m.   The need of speaking openly about the use of SC venue as a transit camp during World War II, and the fact that it has often been passed over in silence and missing from the official history of the locality, we have launched a cooperation with RGČLO and invited a number of people who deal with commemoration practices, individually or within institutions. We do not seek to answer the question “How should […]