Belgrade Memory Theater Milena Dragicevic Sesic

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Belgrade implicite cultural policies

Community art projects within

memory politics mobile theaters

Milena Dragicevic Sesic


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BELGRADECity of multiple interrupted

identities

Celtic_____

Roman____

Medieval

______

Oriental city___

CentralEuropean City

European bourgeois city

Socialist city

a cosmopolitan city


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Belgrade, Today

Business CenterUEFormer Communist PartyCentral CommitteeHeadquarters

The Museum ofContemporaryArts


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Cosmopolitan Belgrade

Photo exhbition


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theater spectacle within politics of

remembrance and of forgetting

The city is always a

space already

constituted and

structured bysymbolic

mechanisms.

James Donald, Imagining the

Modern City, 8


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Locus memoriae, collective

memory of the city

Theater art production in public spaces

a) Ambiental theater projects

b) In situ projects (site- specific)c) Invisible theater projects

d) Memory revival dialogue projects

e) Populist-Popular projects in the openspace (parcs, squares)


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main controversies of public arts

policies

Identity construction (from nationalistic to

cosmpolitan)

Aesthetic challenge (artist statement) or

marketing issue Community relation building or neigbourhood

aestatization

Raising awareness or calming down Political provocation or power representation


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public spaces

Space of social interaction mahala

Space of identity locus memoriae (monument)

Space of debate cafe

Space of purchasing, inquiringarija and

shopping mall

Space of entertainment festivity square, park

Space for showing up representationcorso (pedestrian street)


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politics of memory & musealisation

historical/museological restoration of old centers

The festivities as memorialization

Ambiguous anniversaries, apologies

Past (material and immaterial) as heritage industry

Retro became trendy fashion, furniture design,music

Nostalgia (Radio Nostalgia as paradigm of the trend forall nostalgic phenomena[)

Memory literature, diaries, confessional prose,

autobiographies, popular history (feuilletons) Visual art projects incorporated memory practices

Marina Abramovic Balkan Baroque, Mrdjan BajicYugomuseum

media in Belgrade - history live transmitting


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Macbeth in front of police

midnight January 1997


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Listen little man hommage a

W.R. (sept. 1997) 10 00


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Listen little man In the shopping mall

12 00


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Listen little man in the bus 46

15 00


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Dalmatian ball game Mirijevo

17 00


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Community relationship building


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Raising awareness - 2005


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Theater in policies of remembrance

Maps of forbidden remembrance, Dah theater,

2004, (memory on Srebrenica)


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Belef fes t ival re-c reating the

ci ty memory

the spaces of BELEF (impressed in the collective memory)

Barutana (Powder Storage), Zindan Gate, Kalemegdanthroughout,

Knez Mihajlova street and Republic square,

Shop window on Andricev venac, Brace Jugovica street

Courtyard in Proleterskih brigada

Corners of New Belgrade

River islands (Ada Ciganlija...)

Conventional spaces for art productions - the SavaCenter, the City Hall, the Belgrade Cultural Center, theMuseum of African Art...


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Public art challenges

Provocations for:

Power authorities

Cultural authorities

(complaining about

low art achievement)

Cultural values ofpopulation

stereotypes


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Conclusion

Multicultural city of Belgrade is not only a text,but a palimpsest, a complex multilayerednarrative, where we have to incite the best andthe most relevant artists to add their narratives

to common collective memory and perception ofthe city.

Trying to enable those narratives to use, but alsoto enter the urban texture, noises, rhythms anddynamism of the city, this imaginary constructsuch as city identity might become acceptablefor the values of all those who describethemselves as urban generation


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"The sky above Belgradeis wide and high, unstable but always beautiful; even during

winter serenities with their icy splendor; even during summer storms when the whole of it

turns into a single gloomy cloud which, driven by the mad wind, carries the rain mixed

with the dust of Panonian plain; even in spring when it seems that it also blooms, along

with the ground; even in autumn when it grows heavy with the autumn stars in swarms.

Always b eaut i fu l and r ich, as a compensat ion to th is st range town for every th ing

that isn' t there, and a cons olat ion because of everything th at shou ldn ' t be there.

Ivo Andri, Serbian Nob el prize laureate
http://www.beograd.org.yu/english/upoznaj/kultumet/spomenik/spomen2.htmhttp://www.beograd.org.yu/english/upoznaj/kultumet/spomenik/spomen2.htm


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New Cities

Novi Beograd2001


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Overcoming FEAR


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Serbian citizens are giving the last

honor to assassinated prime minister

Djindjic

on the streets of Belgrade, 2003


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Belgrade fortressarsenal - met

1972.

1994.


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1994.1972.


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1994.2004.


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Belgrade fortress arsenal - met

Today: Cafe Gallery- Andergraund -


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1995.KNEZ MILOSH AMMAM,

Belgrade (1835)

club

-MONUMENT-

1996.


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The old

TRAM DEPOT

Duringtransformation toshopping mall

Bulevar

Kralja Aleksandra

1996


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Belgrade Old Fairground

Important Historic Sites


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The Old Fairground, 1938


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The Old Fairground, 1938


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Belgrade

OldFairground,

ItalianPavilion

today


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The Old Fairground, today


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BELGRADE CREATIVE CITY

Web camera on the main Square

Labyrinth FACE OF BELGRADE,

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