{"id":1967,"date":"2018-07-18T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.udruzenjekurs.org\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:18:05","slug":"gradove-smo-vam-podigli-vizuelizacija-istrazivanja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.udruzenjekurs.org\/en\/radovi\/gradove-smo-vam-podigli-vizuelizacija-istrazivanja\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Have Built Cities for You\u201d Visualization of the Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/p>\n

From Text To Exhibition Didascalies:<\/h2>\n

How To Visualize Research<\/p>\n

KURS\u2019s primary task was to translate the theoretical, analytical and archive content, produced and gathered during the course of researches conducted for the exhibition \u201eWe built cities for
\nyou\u201c, into visual language and a coherent representational whole.<\/p>\n

A collage approach was chosen as a way to express as clearly as possible the thematic complexity and variability of the given material, itself dominantly textual. In order to simplify the content as much as possible, thus allowing a clearer reading and establishing a connection between the researches, the overall installation and composition have been derived in four levels. The first background plane is comprised of selected archive photographs representing the circumstances, people and infrastructure from the socialist period. This level is presented as rasterized and pale, almost invisible, constructing a frieze. The key sentences, clearly and unequivocally conveying the message of the researches, have been written in the second plane, which also contains the relevant statistical data. The third layer is placed on frames, containing parts of research, as well as printed archive material (posters, photographs). The fourth and last layer consists of objects and artefacts standing unattached to the walls. The additional element connecting and contextualizing all of the researches are the printed pages of the Sarayevo \u201eOslobo\u0111enje\u201c (\u201eLiberation\u201c) newspaper, directly relevant to the themes of research.<\/p>\n

The interplay of different materials, subtle variations in printing paper, hand written and printed text, puts a further emphasises on the contradictions of Yugoslav socialism, which this exhibition choses to talk about.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe Have Built Cities for You\u201d<\/p>\n

An Exhibition on the Contradictions of Yugoslav Socialism<\/p>\n

The Cvijeta Zuzori\u0107 Pavilion, Kalemegdan Park
\n13 June until 02 July 2018<\/p>\n

From the curators text:
\n
\nWhen, in the mid-1960\u2019s, speaking of the position of workers, the then Chairman of the Association
\nof the Trade Unions of Yugoslavia stated that \u201cIf our workers\u2019 situation is not good, let them go on
\nstrike!\u201d, he had no inkling of the fact that, soon enough, that would become the reality of
\nYugoslavia. During the 1980\u2019s, strikes became a regular occurrence in cities throughout the country.
\nFrom \u201cTrep\u010da\u201d to \u201cTAM\u201d, from \u201cLabin\u201d to \u201cZmaj\u201d \u2013 working men and women went on strike
\ndemanding better working and living conditions, protesting against the austerity measures and the
\nneoliberal restructuring of Yugoslavia, which was primarily supported and pushed forward by the
\npolitical and economic leadership.<\/p>\n

That is precisely what the exhibition \u201cWe Have Built Cities for You\u201d is about. It is about the
\ncontradictions of Yugoslav socialism, which were particularly manifest during the course of the
\n1980\u2019s, and which led to the restoration of the capitalist system. However, the above-mentioned
\nsocial processes did not unfold in a linear fashion or without resistance. Complex class-related
\nforms of logic were involved, which collided and were engaged in conflicts, thus producing
\ncontradictory political-economic phenomena that it is necessary to investigate and overview anew.<\/p>\n

Today, all the states established after the destruction of Yugoslavia are nationalist-capitalist in
\ncharacter, and neoliberal \u201ctransition\u201d agendas carried out by the local regimes favour solely the
\nlogic of capital. The results of a decades-long process of transformation are most evident and
\nmeasurable in the sphere of work \u2013 a total destruction of the labour structures and institutions of
\ndemocratic management of the economy, masses of unemployed or poorly paid working men and
\nwomen who fret over their existence on the periphery of the global capitalist system. From the
\nVardar River to Mt Triglav, a connection still exists, but it has been transformed into the trajectory
\nof trading in misguided investments and a cheap labour force. In such a socio-political constellation,
\nfew actors represent the interests of workers. That is why it is necessary to maintain the visibility of
\nworkers\u2019 perspective, review the experiences from the past and open up space for creating a
\ndifferent society.<\/p>\n

Within the framework of the exhibition \u201cWe Have Built Cities for You\u201d, we return to the period of
\nsocialism and its contradictions, and through a number of researches we raise issues that are inter-
\nrelated in a complex manner: from the economy, politics and workers\u2019 self-management to leisure-
\ntime pursuits, the media, culture and art.<\/p>\n

The exhibition participants include: Bojan Mr\u0111enovi\u0107 (Zagreb), Boris Postnikov (Zagreb), the
\nCentre for Contemporary Art of Montenegro (Podgorica), Crvena (Sarajevo), Doplgenger
\n(Belgrade), Filip Jovanovski and Ivana Vaseva (Skoplje), the group Borovo (Zagreb), Irena
\nPeji\u0107 (Belgrade), Iskra Krsti\u0107 (Belgrade), Kurs (Belgrade), Lidija K. Radojevi\u0107 and Ana
\nPodvr\u0161i\u010d (Graz\/Ljubljana), Majlinda Hoxha (Pri\u0161tina), Mario Reljanovi\u0107 (Belgrade), Milica
\nLup\u0161or (Zrenjanin), the Cultural Centre Punkt (Nik\u0161i\u0107), the Workers\u2019 Video Club (Zrenjanin),
\nSr\u0111an Kova\u010devi\u0107 (Zagreb), Vigan Nimani (Pri\u0161tina).<\/p>\n

Curators: Vida Kne\u017eevi\u0107 and Marko Mileti\u0107 (Kontekst kolektiv<\/a>)
\n
\nVisual identity and exhibition architecture: Andreja Miri\u0107<\/a>
\n
\nExhibition design and research visualisation: Milo\u0161 Mileti\u0107 and Mirjana Radovanovi\u0107 (KURS)
\n
\nProduction Centre for Cultural Decontamination<\/a>.<\/p>\n