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PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF THE WORKS
TALK WITH THE AUTHORS

students of ALU / Laboratory exercises 1
Wed 7 May at 6pm / Park ALU, Ilica 85

Opovoempé / Out of Key(s)
Thu 8 May at 6pm / summer theatre Tuskanac

Andreja Kuluncic / I'm sorry... I'm not sorry
Fri 9 May at 2.30pm / 88.1 MHz - Radio Sljeme

Sagadin & Hieslmair / The rate of return
Fri 9 May at 6pm / People's Open University, Vukovarska 68

Martin Krenn / Monument for a just city
Sat 10 May at 12am / Marshal Tito Square

Stefan Rummel / Underground ghosts
Mon 12 May at 11am / Bana J. Jelacica Square, by the ex public toilet

Vered Dror / Hidden city
Tue 13 May at 11am / Britanski trg, post office

Barbara Blasin / Endangered particle
Wed 14 May at 11am / Booksa, Marticeva 14d

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Programme

Barbara Blasin
Croatia
ENDANGERED PARTICLE

exhibition
1 - 15 May 2008
display windows in the town centre

fashion show
15 May 2008 at 6pm
Cvjetni Square / Oktogon passage

The "Endangered particle" project begun with a series of photographs of burnt-down landscapes in five touristic localities on the Adriatic coast (the islands of Bisevo and Hvar, Ucka mountain, the Dubrovnik hinterland and the island of Solta). The photographs were taken in the period between 2003 and 2007 (tracing the changes and recovery of some, and new destructions of other localities). In cooperation with the ecological organisation Dolphin's Dream the project will continue with an exhibition, promotion and production of a trial series of objects necessary for summer vacation, primarily the popular flip-flops, bearing images from the photographs of burnt down areas. Places burned with extensive tourism would in this way become a tourist product, while the income from the sales of these objects would be designated for the re-forestation of one or more burned areas.

Nothing in this world is as invisible as a monument.
Robert Musil

In the previous century, the idea of a memory/monument and its place in contemporary culture grew in proportion to the diminishing of traditional notions of eternity/timelessness of the memories/monuments themselves. Once it had been accepted that monuments necessarily mediate memory, even when their goal is to stimulate it, one started seeing them as displacements of the memories they were supposed to embody. In other words, insisting on memory being fixed in place in (public) space made the exchangeability of memories/monuments as cultural artefacts impossible. In The Culture of Cities, Lewis Mumford proclaims the "Nietzchean" death of the memorial as helplessly incompatible with the modernist city: classical memories/monuments are static; they are a mummification of the past, instead of placing hope in biological regeneration, in fixing images into new generations, and they remain merely vain, self-referencing, "larger than life" - in short, incapable of comemorativity which should to them be inherent and intrinsic.

Thus, the art of memories/monuments rejects ever more and more the traditional static forms, and leaves a space for the audience to dynamically rethink the marked object/practice/event, and often also to participate in its (re)creation. The pre/post-modern notion of time as cyclical, as opposed to modernist linearity, becomes more and more of a necessity in any serious attempt to mark memories. The Endangered particle does this on at least two levels: on the one hand, by successively revisiting and noting the biological "progress", the finality of the apocaliptic event (fire) is negated, while, by way of displacing parts of the photographs onto flip-flops, "necessary for the beach", the places burnt by extensive tourism become a segment of a new (thanatos) touristic product.

The final part of the project, a segment of the profit from commercial production of which will be designated for the re-forestation of spaces that were devastated through (intentional or accidental) human action, is that necessary ingredient in the true permanence of memory.
Igor Markovic

Barbara Blasin, by vocation and education a graphic designer (graduated Design at the Architecture Faculty in Zagreb), is also a successful photographer. She participated in numerous group exhibitions and festivals, and also had several solo exhibitions. She is a regular participant of UrbanFestival, where her most prominent project was featured, the Women's Guide to Zagreb (with co-author Igor Markovic).

barbarabla@yahoo.com

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Locations

FASHION SHOW

EXHIBITION

Endangered particle is part of the project Invocation of Green by Dolphin's Dream and BLOK.

Program realised through the ClubTure platform: