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TANGENT_BROTHERHOOD
presenting /The Lost Highway Expedition 2006/

http://europelostandfound.net/

V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Friday March 09, 2007
20.00–23.00 (CET)
live REALMEDIA stream and IRC chat via www.v2.nl <http://v2.nl>


During August 2006 /The Lost Highway Expedition/, brought an 
international and cross-disciplinary group of ca. 200 artists, 
theoreticians, journalists, photographers, architects and other cultural 
practitioners together into an exploratory, and at times accidental 
journey, along what was once, in the time of Socialist Yugoslavia, 
called the ‘Highway of Brotherhood and Unity.’ Traveling for 26 days 
along this geopolitical trajectory linking the capitals of what is now 
called the Western Balkans, the expedition was a search for a form of 
future cultural and spatial practice, taking as its starting point a 
positive interpretation of the concept of Balkanisation.

Tangent_Brotherhood presents the expedition as a model of /open source 
/and do-it-yourself collaboration in the form of a mobile, cultural and 
artistically charged, and collectively authored project. /The Lost 
Highway Expedition/ was initiated by eight individuals, loosely 
connected through the School of Missing Studies and the Centrala 
Foundation for Future Cities. Its backbone was formed by some of the 
most engaged experimental art, media and cultural organizations spanning 
Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, 
Podgorica, and Sarajevo plus a large group of active participants, both 
stationary or traveling. These organizations, from the 1990’s onwards, 
have been challenged and triggered by institutional breakdown and have 
become – often unintended – the forerunners of alternative models of 
cultural production in the region.

With participating explorers …

Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen (Stealth.unlimited, Rotterdam/Belgrade) are 
urban researchers and practitioners.They conceive tools to explore the 
shared authoring of space and urban culture. They are co-initiators of 
/the Lost Highway Expedition/.

http://www.stealth.ultd.net/
<http://www.stealth.ultd.net/>http://www.schoolofmissingstudies.net/

Alenka Gregorič is the artistic director of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 
Slovenia. She has written numerous essays, reviews and articles for 
various art publications and from 2002 till the end of 2004 she explored 
the contemporary art scene of former-Yugoslavia for Balkanis magazine. 
With Škuc Gallery, she set the starting stage for /the Lost Highway 
Expedition/.

http://www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si/

Yane Čalovski is founding member and artistic director of Press to Exit 
Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia - an organisation exploring 
unconventional approaches for ideas, projects and collaborations with 
artists and curators form Macedonia and abroad. With Press to Exit, he 
has formed part of the backbone to /the Lost Highway Expedition./ Yane 
studied art and architecture in the USA, Japan and the Netherlands.

http://www.presstoexit.org.mk/

Kristian Lukić is a curator for digital art and culture at the Museum of 
Contemporary Arts of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. As a previous member 
of new media centre kuda.org, he is an example of the crossovers 
appearing between the independent cultural scene and the re-emerging 
institutional culture in the region. He is a cofounder of The Institute 
for Flexible Culture and Technology - Napon (2006).

http://www.kuda.org/ <http://www.kuda.org/>
http://www.napon.org/
http://www.msluns.org.yu/

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