Catalogue   

UrbanFestival 11 Catalogue

The pdf of the UrbanFestival 11 catalog can be downloaded here. You can order your hard copy by sending an e-mail to blok@blok.hr (price 10 EUR, mode of payment upon agreement).

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UrbanFestival 11 – 6. – 9. 10. 2011, 6. – 9. 10. 2011. Cinema Grič / public spaces

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…open to the general public and with musical accompaniment! The mandatory module is Drumming 1 and all other courses are optional. In addition to gaining knowledge, in Community School you can share your own knowledge with other interested students, whilst above all respecting your right to incompetence. Are you interested in representations of self, recycling, epistemology, beekeeping, the global economic system, crochet, condition, movement, shiatsu massage, tourism or something more exotic, Community School is a real opportunity for homework that you will do with pleasure!

Conference and presentation of works   

UrbanFestival continues with the programme in October!

Awaiting us from the 6th till the 9th of October is the presentation of the already executed projects, lectures, the visual course and two new projects in which Belgrade architect Dubravka Sekulić and Canadian artist Michelle Teran will lead people on unrepeatable tours of Zagreb!

presentations of projects:
Ana Zubak, The Big Picture
Rafaela Dražić, Master I Want To Make You Rich
House of extreme musical theatre, CEPHEUS
Nicole Hewitt, Untitled
Jonas Staal, The End of History
Dušica Dražić, Procjep [Gap]
Clemence Agnez, Hair Project
The Urban Vegetable Patch

Lectures and discussions:
David Belas – 7 days of creation
Trenton Oldfield (This is not a Gateway) – Who Dares Wins Urbanism
Srećko Horvat
Irfan Hošić – Architecture in the service of ideology
KUD Obrat
Bojan Mucko

film programme:
On buildings and people, visual course (curator: Petar Milat)
Precise program and locations coming soon!

Clémence Agnes in Pazin   

Invisible sculpture

In the Museum of Pazin, French artist Clémence Agnes made ​​a sculpture of human hair. Presentation of her work in the old Castle was part of the guest performances of UrbanFestival at the Seven Days of Creation Festival in Pazin. Clémence and her assistant Magali L’huillier spent seven days working very closely and carefully producing a delicate and fragile sculpture in the space of the Castle. Clémence’s physical work and commitment always involves a certain loneliness, commitment and focus on the self and implies a long-term invisible work. →

[BLOK] team moved in Pazin   

UrbanFestival at 7 days of creation

On Friday 19th of August 2011 at 8.30pm the curatorial team of UrbanFestival 11 is exhibiting its work to date at the 7 Days of Creation Festival in Pazin. At this occasion, in the courtyard of the Pazin Castle, we will highlight the principles of our work, the importance of public space for urban surroundings and the specificities of producing artworks in public space. In addition to the curatorial team, and as part of the UrbanFestival, the French artist Clémence Agnez will also be a guest in Pazin and will exhibit on the same night her site-specific installation.

Dušica Dražić's Gap   

We are closing the door in Kordunska

The artist Dušica Dražić and the curators of UrbanFestival 11 decided to end the performance entitled Gap on the 6th of June 2011, five days before the expected end of its execution. We thank all of those that took part in the performance who with their stay in Kordunaska made this experiment exceptionally interesting and an invaluable experience.

Rafaela Dražić's action on Cibona Tower   

Thanks to cheap labour

Press release for the action of Rafaela Dražić on the Cibona Tower within the framework of UrbanFestival 11

The theme of this year’s UrbanFestival, the place from which we began our research and communication with artists, was the architecture of skyscrapers. The topic very quickly directed us, together with artists and other participants, to the question of the difference between the private and public, those border line situations in which it is difficult to define the “public-ness” of space considering the processes of privatization in varying aspects.

We invited Rafaela Dražić, a designer by vocation, to participate in this year’s UrbanFestival with a new project, specially conceived for this occasion. Our choice was based above all on that segment of her practice in which she intertwines her role as a designer with those of curators and artists, as well as giving these roles an activist dimension. For example, at the banned exhibition 7 nula [7 zeros] she exhibited photographs of graffiti that criticised the policies of Željko Kerum, whilst for the Ad hoc project she made her own kind of «game rules» for thinking about the concepts of images and censorship and invited numerous colleagues to participate. →

The Big Picture action is finished   

Postcards from the ground floor vista

Ana Zubak’s two-day action brought a part of a privileged view down to the streets – the vistas from the Cibona Tower and Ilica Skyscraper. Several hundreds of citizens used the opportunity to have their photograph taken in front of the panorama of Zagreb and to have personalized postcards made. Follow the course and results of the action at http://anazubak.tumblr.com/.

Action in public space   

A piece of The Big Picture

The Big Picture, Ana Zubak’s urban action, will be held on the 30th of June 2011 at the foot of the Cibona Tower (Dražen Petrović Square 3) and on the 1st of July 2011 at the foot of the Ilica Skyscraper (Ilica 1) from 1 till 3 pm. The Big Picture addresses the disappearance of the public and accessible-to-the-public space by its conversion into private space. Inspired by the fact that the vista of the Ilica Skyscraper in the very centre of the city was in the past available to all, as well as the fact that today this is no longer the case, Zubak decided to lower the vista down to the ground level. Zubak highlights: “We are symbolically transporting the panoramic views, which a handful of powerful people enjoy, into a public space in large formats. We are offering passers-by the opportunity to have their picture taken in front of those same panoramic views of Zagreb, and we are printing them off personalized photographs in the form of postcards on the spot.” →

Workshop in Urban Vegetable Patch   

Self made Moss Graffiti

Production of graffiti from moss is an organic and non-invasive methods of painting walls which, in a nutshell, consists of shaping the growth of moss into the desired forms. For the moss to really grow where we want it to and in the form that we set it, it is necessary to provide it with adequate conditions. →

Everybody in 15 Kordunska Street!   

Two weeks in an appartment without a door

On the 28th of June 2011, artist Dušica Dražić starts her two-week performance Gap as part of the eleventh UrbanFestival. She conceptualised her performance as an experiment: she will move into the apartment in 15 Kordunska Street, remove the front door and open the space to everyone – for stopping by, coffee, work or stay; at any time of day, regardless of her presence or absence.
In the period from her moving in till the 10th of July 2011 we invite you to visit this neither-private-nor-public space in Kordunska and to spend time in the gap.

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The third picture of Cepheus   

Stenjevac Republic in Botanical Gardens

The final part of the play Cepheus adapted for the public space was performed in the Botanical Gardens – a place where the young youth magazine Val members would meet and socialize. →

Vermicomposting workshop in the Urban Vegetable Patch   

With the help of worms…

At the vermicomposting workshop in the Urban Vegetable Patch we showed the participants how, using the help of worms, they can make a good quality and nourishing compost for even more successful and fruitful gardening in their own home. →

Theater in public space   

The first picture of Cefas has sounded!

Feed fire with fire, first of three pictures of the Cepheus play performed by the House of Extreme Musical Theatre, illustrated the spirit of the revolutionary Zagreb youth from the beginning of the 20th century. A group of young anarchists planned and executed in 1912 an unsuccessful assassination attempt on ban Cuvaj [Count Cuvaj], after which they were arrested, questioned and imprisoned in the penitentiary in Srijemska Mitrovica.

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