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Motivation for this project is a desire to create a unique record of activities happening in and around Architectural Faculty, Belgrade 1993-1999, which have been of wider significance for a cultural scene. Such a collective record does not exist so far, and their underlying unity in a cultural sense has been somewhat neglected. Among the relevant projects one should mention Project X, Workshop 301, Accelerator journal, Themes for the Great Cities, Armatura, and others. The emphasis is on persons who participated in some or all of those listed projects, and who are by and large physically absent, working and studying in various countries of the world. The output of this project is envisaged as a booklet containing 22 postscards. The booklet is perforated, so that the individual postcards can be separated at will. Postcards show 22 different people who in one or another way contributed to the artistic events listed above in a creative manner. This is a mini-selection which should give a good general idea on the nature, range and scope of those projects and profile of their participants. The persons chosen are in a recognizable way associated with his/her representative work. A series of stamps are printed and attached, too, showing the outline of the author in a current physical environment (notably the name of the country he/she is currently living in). In addition, a hand-written current address is given for each person on the back of the postcard.
The hand-writing of each person is printed verbatim, in order to support a documentary nature of the entire Case Studies: A Book of Facts 1993-1999. It intends to give a cross-section of the representative state of mind in the both temporal and spatial location of its production, by explicitly shown its roots in previous artistic experiments mentioned above. The underlying ambiguity between the meanings of the very word case, associating it with both travelling (leaving) and any individual phenomena, is used here to discuss a specific social and cultural problem of great urgency, which is an excellent example of Eliade's statement on manifestation of the world in the form of language. Each personality is a case, and each case has to be regarded in superposition to other, more or less different, cases. Documentary approach testifies instead of telling. In this sense, the Case Studies: A Book of Facts 1993-1999 employs the multilevel structure of language itself in order to produce additional functional effect.
Workshop 301 / an experimental program in the Fine arts course of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade
Themes for the Great Cities / solo exhibition by Branko Pavic
Armatura / multimedia project by Škart group
Project X / an indepenndent, non-govermental association
Accelerator / an independent architectual journal
WORKSHOP 301 | THEMES FOR GREAT CITIES | ARMATURA | PROJECT X | ACCELERATOR
Motiv za nastanak ovog projekta je bila želja da se napravi jedinstveno svedocanstvo dešavanja u i oko Arhitektonskog fakulteta u Beogradu koja su bila od šireg znacaja za kulturnu scenu uperiodu od 1993 do 1999. godine. Takvo kolektivno svedočanstvo do sada nije postojalo, a njihovo jedinstvo na kulturnom planu je donekle bilo zapostavljeno. Medju bitnim projektima treba pomenuti: Projekat X, Radionicu 301, časopis Akcelerator, Teme za velike gradove, Armaturu i druge. Naglasak je na ljudima koji su učestvovali u nekim ili u svim nabrojanim projektima i od kojih je većina fizički odsutna, pošto uče i rade u raznim zemljama sveta. Zamišljeno je da rezultati ovog projekta budu predstavljeni u brošuri koja će se sastojati od 22 razglednice. Brošura će biti perforirana tako da ce biti moguće odvojiti ih po želji. Razglednice će predstaviti dvadeset dvoje ljudi koji su, svako na svoj način, kreativno doprineli održavanju pomenutrih umetničkih dešavanja. Ovo je mini izbor koji treba da pruži dobru, opštu predstavu o prirodi, dometima i obimu tih projekata i ukratko opiše ljude koji su u njima učestvovali. Odabrani pojedinci ce biti na prepoznatljiv nacin povezani sa radovima kojima se predstavljaju. Bice otštampana serija postanskih maraka koje ce biti lepljene na razglednice. Na markama ce biti prikazane konture autora u okruženju u kome trenutno živi (na vidnom mestu je i ime zemlje u kojoj svako od njih živi). Pored toga, na poledini razglednice ce biti rukom ispisana sadašnja adresa svakog od ucesnika.
Rukopis svakog pojedinca će biti preštampan doslovno da bi se naglasila dokumentarna priroda celokupnog projekta. CASE: Popis dogadjanja u periodu od 1993. do 1999. godine je napravljen sa namerom da pruži presek razmišljanja koja su postojala u vreme i na mestu stvaranja ovog projekta, time što će pokazati da se njegovi koreni nalaze u gorepomenutim umetničkim eksperimentima. Dvosmislenost značenja same reci "case" vezuje je i za putovanje (odlaženje) i za bilo koji pojedinačni fenomem - slučaj. Ovde se ona koristi da bi se raspravljalo o specifičnom društvenom i kulturnom problemu od velike važnosti. Taj problem je odličan primer onoga što je Elijade rekao o ispoljavanju sveta u formi jezika. Svako je slučaj za sebe, a svaki slučaj mora da se posmatra u odnosu na druge, manje ili više različite slučajeve. Dokumentarni pristup podrazumeva svedočenje umesto priče. U tom smislu u projektu CASE: Popis dogadanja 1993 - 1999 se očitava višeslojna struktura samog jezika. Time se želi postići dodatni funkcionalni efekat.
Radionica 301 / eksperimentalni program Likovnog kabineta Arhitektonskog Fakulteta u Beogradu
Teme za velike gradove /samostalna izložba Branka Pavića
Armatura / multimedijalni projekat Grupe Škart
Projekt X / nezavisna, nevladina umetnička asocijacija
Akcelerator / nezavisni arhitektonski žurnal
photo: Vesna Pavlović, Djordje Tomić, Vlada Mašić
RADIONICA 301 | TEME ZA VELIKE GRADOVE | ARMATURA | PROJEKT X | AKCELERATOR