26th May - 11th June 2005
Exhibition, panel discussion, presentations
The project "Overcoming Past" deals with the different forms of art and culture as indicators and correctives of historical attempts to create a political consciousness. The exhibition presents artistic positions which critically query identification with collective symbols and create their own repertoire of symbols taken from a parallel, virtual reality. The panel discussions "Working Out the Past" and "Art as Social Corrective" extends the themes addressed in the exhibition.
Furthermore, artists present concepts for new or already realized "monuments," including Sokol Beqiri (Peja, Kosovo) with his project "Skenderbeg and Mother Theresa Monuments" and the group "Urban Movement" (Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina) with their plans to erect a Bruce Lee monument in Mostar.
> For detailed information on all events as well as on the concepts presented, please go to the website of "De/construction of Monument."
Schedule:
Thursday, May 26th,
10.00 am – 2.00 pm, 4.00 – 6.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
PANEL DISCUSSION
OVERCOMING PAST
Moderator: Senadin Musabegović, Sarajevo (B&H) National Gallery, Sarajevo
* Historical controversies / New views
* Today’s controversies – what is being talked about, on what we keep silent?
* Continuities and discontinuities of two collectivisms: socialism and nationalism.
* Overcoming war-related trauma in the process of community reunification.
* Ethno-national politics as a result of the transition logic of destruction of socialism.
* Peace agreement - a model of conservation, and of generatation of a new political conflict.
* War as the means of revising and "overcoming" the past.
* Identity / new identities: who and what forms them today? Who are we, what are we?
* What is being taught at schools, what is not being taught at schools?
* Lessons of the past – lessons to be learned (how to recognize fascism?).
Panelists:
Žarko Puhovski (Zagreb); Ugo Vlaisavljević (Sarajevo); Svetlana Ðurković (Sarajevo); Ivo Žanić (Zagreb); Amer Filipović (Sarajevo); Nerzuk Ćurak (Sarajevo); Vladimir Marković (Belgrade); Asim Mujkić (Sarajevo); Dino Abazović (Sarajevo).
Thursday, May 26th – June 11th
(opening at 7:30 pm)
National Gallery of B&H
EXHIBITION
COLLECTIVE vs. INDIVIDUAL
Erzen Shkololli (Peja), Kurt&Plasto (Sarajevo), Alma Suljević (Sarajevo), Amila Smajović (Sarajevo), Milica Tomić (Belgrade), Damir Nikšić (Sarajevo), Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb), Ervin Babić (Dubrovnik – Sarajevo).
Friday, May 27th,
10.00 am-2.00 pm, 4.00-7.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
PRESENTATIONS OF MONUMENT’S IDEAS AND CONCEPTS OF REALISATION
Moderator: Bojana Pejić, Berlin
* The Winner(s) of the Sarajevo Monument’s Competition Presentation;
* Sokol Beqiri, Skenderbeg and Mother Theresa Monuments (Peja);
* Nino Raspudić, Bruce Lee Monument (Mostar);
* Tadej Pogačar, "Kings of the Street", Parasite Museum (Ljubljana)
* Milica Tomić, New Monument Competition (Belgrade);
* Dalibor Martinis, JBT (Zagreb);
* Radenko Milak (Banja Luka);
* Kathrin Becker, displaced (Partner project Germany of "De/construction of Monument"; Berlin).
Saturday, May 28th,
10.00 am-3.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
DISCUSSION (ROUND TABLE)
ART AS SOCIAL CORRECTIVE
Moderator: Bojana Pejić, Berlin
* Art as social corrective – Art as substitution for reality.
Participants:
Antonia Majača (Zagreb); Alma Suljević (Sarajevo); Milica Tomić (Belgrade); Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb); Nebojša Jovanović (Sarajevo); Tadej Pogačar (Ljubljana); Svebor Midžić (Belgrade).
Saturday, May 28th, 6.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
LECTURE
Bojana Pejić: NEW MONUMENTS
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