SHADOWING THE CITY: HYPERTEXTUALISATION OF URBAN SPACES

Zagreb, May 8-10, 2009
Student Centre, Savska 25

With the kind support of the European Cultural Foundation, Office for Culture, Education and Sports of the City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the Zagreb Student Cultural Centre

PROGRAMME

Pre-workshop event

Thursday, May 7, 20.00:
Chris Neville: Urban and Cultural Archaeology of New York – Case Studies of the Projects “Place Matters” and “Lower East Side Tenement Museum”
Lecture at Zagreb Architects Association, Trg Bana Jelačića 3, Zagreb

Post-workshop event

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED BECAUSE OF ILLNESS OF MR. AUGE. SOON WE WILL COME WITH NEW DATES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

Marc Augé: Architecture and ‘Non-Places’
Lecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Kačićeva 26, Zagreb



PROGRAMME:

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Friday, May 8, 2009

16.00: Welcome by Katarina Pejović and Boris Bakal, co-founders of Shadow Casters and organizers of the workshop

Introduction and program review by Dr. Dragan Klaic, cultural researcher and analyst, Professor at CEU, Budapest

16:30: Re-threading Urban Textures

Women’s Guide Through Zagreb. Barbara Blasin, artist and designer, Zagreb


Placc Festival. Fanni Nanay, Art Historian, Budapest

Talent en Route. sProUt, visual and performing artists' collective, London

17.30: Break

17.45: Discussion

Closing remarks: Dragan Klaić, Amsterdam.

19.00: Ends

Dinner in Student Centre Club

22.00: Theatre performance:
Vacation From History, Shadow Casters - Mosor Cinema, Zagreb (120’)


Saturday, May 9, 2009

9.30: Opening and program review: Dragan Klaic

Architecture and Urbanism as Political Tools

Outside My Door. Marija Mojca Pungerčar, visual artist, Ljubljana

Famous Brno Villas II. Barbora Klìmovà, visual artists, Brno

Apartment Project. Serra Özhan, art historian and theoretician, Istanbul

Post-Capitalist Cartography: Red Plan and Plan Mediterraneo. Emil Jurcan, Red Plan Group, Pula

Discussion

Closing remarks: Boris Bakal, intermedia artist, Zagreb

11.30: Break

11.50: Traumas and Dreams: Unraveling the Burried Memories

Sarajevo Video Archive. Nihad Kreševljaković, historian and artist, Sarajevo

Traveling Through Collective Unconscious: L’île. Fiona Templeton, director and performing artist, London/New York

Time Patrol. Janos Sugar, visual artist, Budapest

A glimpse of the future: Exodus 2048. Michael Blum, visual artist, Vienna

Discussion

Closing remarks: Katarina Pejovic, Zagreb

13.30: Lunch

14.30: Passing it On to the Young Ones: Community Reflecting Upon
Memory

Do You Practice What You Preach? Nikoleta Marković, visual artist, Belgrade

Found a house: started a game (Scholé). Istituto Benjamenta (Valeria di Modica, Luca Mattei & Irena Radmanović), performing and visual artists, Bologna

Place Matters. Chris Neville, historian, performing artist and cultural anthropologist, curator of Tenement Museum, New York

Discussion

Closing remarks: Urša Jurman, curator and art pedagogue, Ljubljana

16.30: Break

16.50: Urban Zoon Politikon: Reading and Writing Urban Cultural Memory
as Political Statement

Pillow Fights and Bloody Memories: Public Space Bucharest. Raluca Voinea, art historian, Bucharest


Mapping the Black Holes: Art Centre Lazareti and the Fight Against Urban Criminal Politics. Slaven Tolj, visual and performing artist, Director of Art Centre Lazareti, Dubrovnik

366 Rituals of Liberation. Igor Grubić, visual artist, Zagreb

Discussion

Closing remarks: Borka Pavićević, dramaturg, Director of Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade

18.50: Ends

Dinner at Student Centre Club

20.00: The Night of Foreign Cultural Institutes in Student Centre: various
programmes (performances, videos, installations, exhibitions) all over Student Centre


Sunday, May 10, 2009

09.30: Shadow Casters Journey Through the City

11.15: Final Discussion
Urban Cultural Memory as Tool for Reflection, Criticism and Creation. Moderator: Dragan Klaic. Guest Speaker: Nina Obuljen, Councilor to the Minister of Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

13.00: Ends