BLOK and DeLVe invite you to the presentation of the project of the Centre for Visual Culture at MoCA Belgrade with projections, promotion of the publication and public discussion with Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Stefan Römer and Helmut Weber moderated by the project curator Zoran Eric. The project explores different connotations of the term neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural and social contexts, and analyses the historical development and actual dynamics of urban transformations of the neighbourhoods of New Belgrade. This sentence could be seen as a common denominator and a platform for all different approaches to the topic developed in the course of more than a year long process of working within an international and interdisciplinary team.The particular topics of the public debate are: – How to build on the local socio-political legacy of workers self-management and reaffirm this concept in the new context where different kind of self-organization would be desirable? – How to deal with rapid urban transformations resulting in socio-spatial homogenisations and segregations?, and – Is there a possibility for spatial justice in the city neighbourhoods?
On the publication:
rnThe publication Differentiated Neighbourhoods of New Belgrade is structured in three parts and is accompanied with the DVD with 6 films, documentaries or video works produced in the framework of the project.The first part gives overview of the theoretical concepts of neighbourhood in different social systems, and particularly revisits the concept of New Belgrade as administrative capital of socialist Yugoslavia and development of its neighbourhoods in socialism. Contributions from: Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mina Petrovic, Tamara Maricic & Jasna Petric, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber.
rnIn the second part the focus is on the process of urban transformations in New Belgrade and (im)possibilities of avoiding socio-spatial segregations and preventing the breaking through of neoliberal capitalism into the "empty" spaces in the city. The main questions are in what way differentiated neighbourhoods could be formed, and not shopping malls and business districts, and who makes decisions about this?Contributions from: Mina Petrovic & Vera Backovic, Mark Terkessidis, Stefan Roemer, Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Dubravka Sekulic & Dunja Predic & Davor Eres.
rnThe third part shows the "inside view" – subcultural, marginalized and segregated neighbourhoods and meeting places in New Belgrade. The main issue is if there exist the sense of belonging to the "hood" and how to initiate creation of community or neighbourhood? Contributions from: Milica Lapcevic & Vladimir Sojat, Ljiljana Radosevic, Jakob Kolding, Sanja Jovovic, Dusan Cavic & Dusan Saponja, Bik Van der Pol, Stevan Vukovic
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rnProjections:
rnStefan Römer, Boulevard of Illusions: Learning from New Belgrade, 2007, 24\’47\’\’
rnSabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, NEW, New Belgrade 1948 – 1986 – 2006, 2007, 20\’
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rnZoran Eric is an art historian, curator, and lecturer. He holds a PhD from the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Currently he is working as curator of the Centre for Visual Culture at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. His research fields include the meeting points of urban geography,
rnspatio-cultural discourse, and theory of radical democracy. Between 2005-2008 he was a member of the IKT Board and currently he is the President of the AICA Serbia.
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rnAleksandar Dimitrijevic holds an M.A. at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. During a long-range stay in Vienna and Cologne he dealt with problems of the conflict zone between public and private space, and especially with usurpation of public city spaces for the purposes of advertising. Fom 2000 he deals, in critical way, with the phenomenon of social, political and cultural transformation of Serbian society after the change of the political system and the introduction of the country into the process of transition and privatization.
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rnStefan Römer is professor for New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and works conceptually between art practice and theory; his works and essays are widely exhibited and published. His background is politically motivated activism and documentarism with the tendency to de-conceptualize traditional epistemological canons and dissolve academic subjects.
rnExperimental films: The Analysis of Beauty, 1998; Corporate Psycho Ambient, 2003. Documentary film: Conceptual Paradise, 2006.Books: Corporate Psycho Ambient, 2001; Encounters with Germans, 2003; «temporary architectures», 2005; Reports from the Conceptual Paradise, 2007.
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rnSince 1993, Vancouver and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have collaborated on projects adressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. Their series of photo- and video-works engage with specific moments and cultural logics of (neoliberal) globalization, as they are materialized in neighbourhoods, architecture and everyday life. Since 2004 members of the cultural collective Urban Subjects US.
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rnorganizers: [BLOK] – Local Base for Culture Refreshment & DeLVe | Institute for Duration, Location and Variables
