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EMPTY SPACES OF SERBIA – BELGRADE
/in Studies /by Kcs21blAAThe project “Empty Spaces of Serbia” explores a phenomenon of “empty spaces” or “emptied spaces”, i.e. objects of cultural-historical heritage, as well as other objects that have lost their original purpose: military objects, industrial areas, abandoned suburbs and villages etc. One of the main purposes of the project was to explore the possibilities of transformation of derelicted properties into multifunctional cultural or scientific centres. The first phase of the project was carried out from June to November 2009. It covered the City of Belgrade area with its 17 municipalities. In the first phase of the project more than 150 sites were discovered. The research steps consisted of data collection, systematization and creation of database of explored spaces. Unsolved property problems, lack of strategy on governmental and local level, as well as lack of initiative of potential users (organizations and individuals), turned out to be the main obstacles in recycling and reusing these spaces. The results of the first phase of the project support expanding of the database of deserted urban and rural properties, with emphasis on their great social significance. The database is aimed to be used by artists, cultural and scientific institutions, as well as to instigate developingof strategies on governmental and local level, in order to transform and activate empty spaces.
THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN EXPRESSING SOCIALLY ENGAGED ATTITUDE OF THE BELGRADE NEW WAVE SCENE
/in Philosophy of Media /by Kcs21blAAThe early 1980’s were marked by sudden eruption of creative energy that moved the local artistic production closer to global trends. Authentic values of the period in music known as the “New Wave” were expressed through various mutual activities, different forms of cultural resistance and open social-political intervention. Social function of these texts, as well as their exceptional originality, radicalism and visionariness, allow us to observe the new wave as an artistic movement of contemporary avant-garde, as well as to shed some light on its significant art production that determined and followed the musical expression, much better known to the general public. Works of the New Wave are typically on border areas of different arts. With the strong presence of music and dance, and based on its sensual character, this genre is especially close to theatre-performance art forms that are striving for urban, street culture. The new wave artists are using the media as the means of mutual communication, a space for exchange and verification of their own artistic positions, but also as a field of experiment, in both technical and ontological sense. Free of all constraints, and for a while overlooked by censorship, the New Wave managed to produce an abundance of initiatives in a very short time period, as well as to reactivate belittled artistic process. Such works say farewell to something that is obsolete, through forms that indicate future, whereas their content is more in what they anticipated then in what they realized. Individual artists through their common projects of this period were able to recognize the truth, which social and political system had a tendency to cover up. They were also sufficiently brave to present such truth in public, and sufficiently resourceful to present their ideas through available media, in which they confirmed Brecht’s opinion that avant-garde artist is the one who is wise enough to discover relevant truths.
WORKING CLASS WOMEN AT THE BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTURY
/in Subcultures, The Emergence of Working Class Culture /by Kcs21blAAContact
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