[spectre] Borders 2001: Suspense

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> To: "Institut za suvremenu umjetnost" <scca-zg@iod.tel.hr>
> From: "Janka Vukmir" <scca-zg@iod.tel.hr>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:20:55 +0200
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> BORDERS 2001: Suspense
> 
> Slavonski Brod, Croatia
> 
> September / October, 2001
> 
> Opening date: Suterday, September 22, 2001
> 
> 
> Project BORDERS 2001 is focused on the role of contemporary arts in
> specific urban context. The location is Slavonski Brod, Croatia, the
> town which lies 200 km eastern from Zagreb on the main road to Belgrade
> and on the crossroad to Sarajevo. The town is located on the river Sava,
> which is now state border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
> For a several months during the shelling in the war in 1992 lots of
> citiziens were killed and the town was badly demaged. In recent years
> population rapidly grows to ca 100,000 inhabitants, as result of
> migrations during and after the war. This is a city with devasteted
> local economy and with a lot of social problems which can be described
> as small-scale problems of the whole region. The process of social
> recovery is painfull and slow. 
> 
> In the center of the town lies the fortress built in 18th century for
> protection of the border between Austrian and Turkish empire. This
> fortress, which is now under the reconstruction, is the one of the
> venues for the project. The urban plan of the city is strongly
> determinated by the military rules: wooden houses were built in a
> distance from the fortress to be easely destroyed in a case of an
> attack. Besides the fortress and the Franciscan Monastery from the same
> period, most of the other buildings dated from 19th centery. During the
> 20th centery some of the remarkable examples of the city arcitecture
> were lost due to urban planing or war demages.
> 
> The whole project consists of several compatibile parts: video program,
> discussions, workshop and exhibition. All those elements are part of
> "the world of art" which, we belive, have important role in contemporary
> culture as tools for social changes. The project is situated in the
> provincial town where culture still exists on the 19th centery ideas,
> without broad contacts and competitive measurements with the rest of the
> contemporary culture. The goal of the project therefore is to locate the
> main obstacles for cultural development and exchange and to propose
> flexible and open cultural alternative.
> 
> 
> The main topic (or keyword) of the exhibition is SUSPENSE, a state or
> condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision
> or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxity.
> This word is usually used in context of Alfred Hitchock's movies. For
> this project it is used to describe the situation of permanet
> instability so common for post-traumatic and transition societies. 
> 
> This project follows the model of BORDERS 2000, initiated last year as
> joint-project between Institute for Contemporary Art - Zagreb and Art
> Workshop Barutana, which is part of The Art Gallery of Slavonski Brod.
> 14 artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic and Croatia
> presented their works on different urban locations. The project received
> a broad interest from local public, but also many people from all over
> Croatia visited the town and exhibition. It was covered in media by
> local and national press, radio and TV. BORDERS 2001 was made possible
> with the financial support from KulturKontakt Austria and the City of
> Slavonski Brod.
> 
> 
> VIDEO PROGRAM
> 
> September 17 - 21, 2001
> 
> Selected by Janka Vukmir
> 
> Ivan Faktor, Osijek; Art Academy Split - video tapes of students of
> Department for Visual Communications Design (prof. Vlado Zrnic); Leo
> Vukelic, Zagreb / Düsseldorf; Reference to difference (I. Kuduz, V.
> Knezevic, S.B. Narath, D. Mezak, M. Bukovac, FX Interzone); Simon
> Bogojevic - Narath, Zagreb
> 
> 
> ROUND - TABLE DISSCUSIONS
> 
> September 21, 2001
> 
> Several art critics, art historians and artists from Bosnia and
> Herzegovina, Slovenia, Czach Republic, Hungary and Croatia will discuss
> about the role of contemporary art in urban context and "Gastarbeit"
> strategy in artworld.
> 
> 
> WORKSHOP
> 
> September 22 - 23, 2001
> 
> The workshop of theatre pedagogy "Movement and imagination - M.
> Cheklhov's method" is organised in collaboration with Theatre EXIT,
> Zagreb
> 
> 
> EXHIBITION
> 
> September 22 - Ostober 20, 2001
> 
> Curated by Darko ?imicic
> 
> The exhibition will be held on several locations all around the city. On
> the opening day on September 22, several performances and actions will
> be presented. The exhibition tour on all locations start at 5 p,m. in
> the Fortress. 
> 
> 
> Gordana Andelic Galic, Sarajevo; Iva-Matija Bitanga, Zagreb / Karlsruhe;
> Balázs Beöthy, Budapest; Simon Bogojevic - Narath, Zagreb; Vlasta
> Delimar, Zagreb; Ivan Faktor, Osijek; Vladimir Frelich, Osijek /
> Düsseldorf; Stefan Haus, Vodnjan; Antun Maracic, Zagreb / Dubrovnik;
> Vlado Martek, Zagreb; Kri?tof Kintera, Praha; Zdena Kolecková,
> Ústí nad Labem; Ivica Kurtz, Slavonski Brod; Roman Ondak,
> Bratislava; Tadej Pogacar, Ljubljana; Renata Poljak, Split / Nizza; Tomo
> Savic-Gecan, Zagreb / Amsterdam; Alma Suljevic, Sarajevo; Ivan
> ?eremet, Slavonski Brod; Boris ?incek, Osijek; Slaven Tolj,
> Dubrovnik; Gyula Várnai, Dunaújváros; Leo Vukelic, Zagreb /
> Düsseldorf
> 
> 
> 
> 
> BORDERS 2001: SUSPENSE is organised by the Institute for Contemporary
> Art, Zagreb and the Art Gallery of Slavonski Brod with the financial
> support from the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, the City
> Council of Slavonski Brod, the Foundation Open Society Institute -
> Culture Link Program and the KulturKontakt Austria.
> 
> __________________________________
> Janka Vukmir
> Institute for Contemporary Art
> Berislaviceva 20 / 10000 Zagreb / Croatia
> phone/fax: 385 1 48 72 111, 385 1 48 72 112
> scca-zg@iod.tel.hr
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