What follows are some rough field notes from Nadija filling us in on project possibilities in Croatia
CROATIA PROJECT SUMMER 2010?
only small amount of funding available through city of rijeka and arts ministry of croatia
small amount for supplies or catalog
$500--$2500
DEADLINES IN SEPTEMBER 2009 FOR SUMMER 2010.
We need to work out our program and include:
Project description
Schedule
Visuals, text
Budget, finances
Places where we are looking for/applying for funding
Catalogs are important there. Create a catalog during Summercamp? Catalog, pdf version ok.
Housing covered in Rijeka with Cesco and Nadija and friends.
Scope of the project: one city, many cities?
Nadija outlined the character, history and possibility of
4 CITIES TO THINK ABOUT… RIJEKA, DUBROVNIK, ZAGREB, SPLIT
RIJEKA
Molekula space available
apply to another space in Rijeka. Deadline August/Sept.
Marin president of Filmactiv
Molekula big, storage/industrial looking building, a big box, in part of Rijeka which is part of harbor/port authority and part belongs to city. In the center of city but doesn’t feel like center. Cranes, containers. Size of Intermedia Dept. When located in International Center. Corridor 3m wide. Off corridor offices and rooms. Projection room used as gallery space. Editing room. Mirrored room for theatre, dance. Offices. Huge room called “living room” (lounge). Windows, air, sunny, light. Can see cranes moving containers out the window. Two columns in middle, small pillars. All first floor. Youth, cultural and activist center.
Second floor no access. Basement possibility.
Delta area. Rijeka river comes down to sea.
Transformation of rijeka. Funded by world bank. Commercial center. Yachts.
Rijeka’s aesthetic. Constructed by austro-hungarians in 1900’s. Big port. Ships. Trieste built as port for vienna; rijeka built as a port for budapest. Trieste and rijeka one hour drive. Both sides of port on coast spreads to containers, cranes. Railroad goes straight to port. Old trains. Old industrial buildings. Industry deteriorated since 1990’s. Bankrupt since 1990’s. Shipyards to be transformed into tourist areas. Workers’ city but workers now jobless. Paper factory and motor parts city shut down. Gearing towards tourism. Cultural tourism. Contemporary art museum to be built in motor building.
Production versus service
Post-war
Communicate with local students and artists. Take it on the road to dubrovnik.
DUBROVNIK
Slaven Tolj-- artist
15-20 years making art about local context. National/international artist. Saving the city.
Lazarte workshop. Mainly performance. Gallery space there. Workshop space for residencies. Walls outside the city—chambers for quarantine. 3 stone buildings. Local gov’t wants to kick workshop out for tourist use. Francesca von Hapsburg, tb… arts foundation. Cultural colonialism?
Elefite… islands. Loput—old monastery on island. Francesca bought it.
Dubrovnik undergoing brutal transformation. Giant carnival cruisers. 3-8 ships per day. Tourist souvenir stores. Prices raised. Real estate up. 9000 euros per square meter. Similar to Venice. Amusement park for tourists, flaneurs.
Art project organized by Slaven Tolj in Dubrovnik: standing on city wall waving goodbye to last cruise ship of season with handkerchiefs.
ZAGREB
Student center art gallery. Big space. 1000 square feet?
DEADLINE END OF MAY BEGINNING OF JUNE 2009 FOR 2010.
SPLIT
Split Arts Academy
Filmactiv working with Cinema Club in Split. Space.
Coastline
tour, boat, bus
Traveling
depends on budget
inexpensive van for 8 including driver may be a possibility
URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
Cesco’s talk Thursday 4:30 pm Jessup Hall.
transformation of Croatian coast. natural landscape, social landscape.
Rijeka, Split, Dubrovnik
Rijeka collaboration Molekula, physical theatre, workshops. Evicts. Project Rent a Delta.
Italian and Croatian border history WWII.
EU postponed. Always on threshold. Waiting.
Neva Sills discusses Door County, tourist trap. schools shrinking.
Similar urban issues in cities around the world:
Venice
Macao
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Chicago
Grand Rapids
urban swap?
exchange, translation, local. your city here. model of my city. compare/contrast to your city. to rijeka.
WHAT ELEMENTS...?
Things that pass through people’s hands, flyers
Paper things, collapsible
Video
Ephemera
Show in Croatia and back in U.S. somewhere…
Possibly propose a 2011 curated show Des Moines Art Center, downtown space?
crates, containers, shipping containers, modular.
city in a box.
CONTENT
Content. Local context. Learn context through Nadija but also through…Molekula, Slaven Tolj, Filmaktiv, Marin, etc.
Research… conversations…
Kate Foley, Rijeka, contemporary choreographer and dancer. Dance troupe. Worked with Mike Kelley “The Day is Done”
Keep reading Mike Davis, Rem Koolhaas, etc.
Jenn Myers notes project in 2003 Panama City
sponsored by the Panama Ministry of Culture? Art collectives, artists, using the city as a protagonist.
Ghada Amer, billboards, Chinese sayings. Local graffiti artists work on buses.
City as protagonist
Our approach is as allies
Conversations with artists, others in Croatia
Blog?
Pairings?
Tourism, transport, movement, etc…
Urban Transformation
SKART
Skart art collective from Belgrade, Serbia. Collective. Leftovers. Remnant. By-product. Junk. 2-3 people anonymous. Anyone can be part. Citizens or Consumers conference.
projects: male embroiderers on street, singing socialist songs, coupon projects, etc.
Irwin
Irwin. Slovenia. Collective. Passports.
IDEAS...
Fast food, tourist crap
Made by genuine local artists
Working to engage the audience/viewer as participants
Culturally people in Croatia may be skeptical or unwilling to participate in dialogue in art activity.
Too many choices is a problem.
Fast.
Better to have a strong structure.
Better to assign a role.
Language(s). Discussion of …
English. as lingua franca.
Frenki. In Iowa City with Katie McG. Love. He is an amazing computer programmer, software designer, graphic designer. Can we ask him to help? With brochures, catalogs, websites, etc.?
DIDACTIC
Nadija isn’t worried about being overly didactic with a project in the context.
Postponing conclusion making.
Social Realism also didactic.
Advertising also didactic.
Starting project
can moving crew establish a long term relationship with Croatia?…
WORKSHOP model
souvenir-making
fast food
tourist crap
Lee Running discusses Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher’s “Expert Night”
10 people find 10 people, neighbors
local culture
The American War, book. (Vietnam)
MOLEKULA
What could happen in Rijeka (and Dubrovnik)?
Conversations
IMAGE FINDING, matching from one city to others?
compare/contrast. connect.
cranes
shipping containers
very tall buildings
development
road making
tourist
souvenir
boat
ship
river
ocean
factory
airport
etc
FUNDING IN U.S.
even tighter right now.
IAC grant deadlines and funding cuts
people may have to fund themselves, or find their own funding. ship things over.
keep on lookout.
funding research at summercamp.
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