[spectre] Presentation and Book Launch in Venice // Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina

[Basak Senova]

Presentation and Book Launch

Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina
http://bijenalle.com
 
Association Biennial of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
is glad to announce the presentation of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK
Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the book launch of the project on
31st May 2013 at 11am, at Palazzo Zorzi, UNESCO Office, Venice.
 
The Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina book
intends to provide an overall representation of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK
Underground, held in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is edited in a way
to unfold the content chronologically, shaped by the curatorial and artistic
content accumulated in the course of two biennial editions, in 2011 and
2013. Furthermore, in the book, the director of the project, Edo Hozić,
thoroughly explains his understanding and engagement with the cultural and
the political substance of the bunker in the frame of the larger cultural
discourse of Balkan region and beyond.
 
Project D-0 ARK Underground, stationed in the space of the Atomic shelter in
Konjic, 45km south of Sarajevo, is known as Tito's atomic shelter. The CODE
name is Istanbul. The object is still under the Ministry of Defense of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of the project is to transform this military
object to a cultural center, hence the biennial is establishing a
contemporary art museum inside of a historical museum.

Edited by Basak Senova, the book is organized in five chapters. The first
chapter presents the curatorial statements that elaborate on the issues and
conditions that have formed the infrastructure of the project. Chapter two
is dedicated to the works that are exhibited in the bunker accompanied by
brief descriptions and images. The following chapter further discusses the
existence and the significance of the project through the concept of
'vintage' by taking 'the cold war era' as the point of its departure.
Chapter four recapitulates the outcome of the public program during the
second edition by focusing on the public programming and discussions that
took place in Sarajevo as an accompanying event of the biennial opening.
Finally, the last chapter depicts the chronology of the project by providing
brief information on talks, presentations, workshops and seminars that took
place within the project.
 
This book has been published by the Association Biennial of Contemporary
Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and supported by UNESCO.
 
The 2nd edition of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, curated by Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi, takes place
through September 26, 2013.


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Basak Senova
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