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UPCOMING: LOST HIGHWAY EXPEDITION / June 30 -24.August, 2006 ? -> LJUBLJANA -> ZAGREB -> NOVI SAD -> BELGRADE -> SKOPJE -> TIRANA -> PODGORICA -> PRISTINA -> SARAJEVO -> ? |
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Open registration and open source exchange:
Lost Highway Expedition is initiated by the School of Missing Studies and Centrala Foundation for Future Cities project group: Azra Akšamija, Ana Dzokic, Katherine Carl, Ivan Kucina, Marc Neelen, Kyong Park, Marjetica Potrc & Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. Project co-ordinator: Dubravka Sekulic, Logistical support: Vlado Janjic, Florian Schneider [kein.org]
with partners
SKUC Ljubljana and Platforma 9.81 Zagreb and kuda.org Novi Sad and Prelom kolektive Belgrade and PresstoExit Skopje and Missing Identity Pristina and Projektor, Podgorica and Pro.ba Sarajevo
Participation is open, for more information contact. |
A
multitude of individuals, groups and
institutions will form a massive intelligent swarm that would move
roughly along the unfinished “Highway of Brotherhood and Unity” in the
former Yugoslavia. The road was made in
sixties in the massive voluntary campaign of the peoples of all nationalities
that constituted Yugoslavia. The expedition is meant to generate new projects,
new art works, new networks, new architecture and new politics based on
experience and knowledge found along the highway. Projects developed from the
expedition will lead to exhibitions, publications and symposia of “Europe Lost
and Found” in Stuttgart and Ljubljana in 2007. Lost
Highway Expedition
will begin in Ljubljana, and travel through Zagreb,
Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana,
Podgorica to conclude in Sarajevo, comprised of two days of events
at each city and one day of travel in between. The events may include guided
tours, presentations and forums by local experts, workshops between the
participating travelers and local participants, discussions,
exhibitions, radio shows, picnics and other events that can be
self-produced by the host cities. Members of the Lost Highway Expedition do not
have to travel or stay together and can enter and exit the expedition for any
length of time and at any point. Participants are to self organize, support and
realize their journey in the “Highway of Post Brotherhood and Non Unity.” Everyone is free to participate in any of the events or to bring their own to the highway. Word of the expedition will travel like a rumor from friends to friends, colleagues to colleagues. The
reason for the Lost Highway Expedition is to find and study
missing relationships on the highway and look at them as a model for diverse
Europe. Lost
Highway is the fictional name for the old road made in Ex Yugoslavia to connect
the major cities of its republics: Ljubljana, Zagreb, Beograd and Skopje. The
road was made in the ‘60s in the massive voluntary campaign of the peoples of
all nationalities that constituted Yugoslavia and named according to the most
important state parole – The Highway of Brotherhood and Unity. It was not
accidental that this ideological name signified the connection line among
different nations. Like
the highway, Western Balkans is a territory without content. “Western
Balkans” has no meaning of interconnections but rather a set of separate
obligations toward expanding Europe. Without content it is emptied also of
ideology. Communism believed that it had the capacity to overcome national difference
in the pursuit of universal wellness. Communist illusion of eternity was
brutally shortened during the nineties. The collapses of utopian systems
stripped down the concept of national unification. Old national conflicts were
awakened for the new bloodshed of war. Yugoslavia was buried, the term lost its
sense and today the new temporary definition Western Balkans applies to
countries waiting for the future in the EU: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. The
highway, on the other hand, survived even more improved. After the war new
tracks and services were added according to EC standards. Now, it looks like any
European highway, comfortable and without local identity. The ideological
meaning that once marked the belief of the people that were building it, had
been lost. “Highway of Post Brotherhood and Non Unity” is missing its
contemporary meaning. It only functions as linear mechanism in the framework of
the recent EU political invention of Western Balkans. Following
the line of the Lost Highway through the unknown territory of contemporary
meanings of Western Balkans as a model of Europe, members of the expedition will
explore new modes of meaningful and sustainable links among different entities. Lost Highway Expedition is a collaboration between Centrala Foundation for Future Cities and School of Missing Studies together with partners. |
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