Neprimjereni spomenici – Putevima revolucije

The exhibition ‘On Revolution Roads: Memorial tourism in Yugoslavia,’ examines the position and function of memorial national liberation struggle (NLS) in the tourist segment of the economic and socio-economic system of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).

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Zagreb 
opening: Tuesday 10/11/2015 at 7pm

The introduction of memorial tourism as a part of the overall SFRY tourist scheme/industry from the late seventies and early eighties of the 20th century to the present day is an under-researched phenomenon of the post-war development of Yugoslavian tourism. The inauguration of NLS memorials as a tourism product and the consequent commercialization of the symbolic and historical-political dimension of NLS cultural heritage impacted the mechanisms of managing existing monuments and the concepts of building new NLS memorials, as well as the methods of their financing. The term memorial tourism is taken with a certain grain of salt, since this statement implicitly emphasizes the commercial functions as the main characteristic of memorial areas and NLS facilities in Yugoslavia, which to some extent ignores the complexity of the historical and political significance and symbolic and socio-economic function of NLS memorials.

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The exhibition will be open in Zagreb until the 28/11/2015 after which it will be possible to view in Sarajevo, Kraljevo, Ljubljana and Belgrade. 

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The exhibition is the joint activity of the members of the international platform INAPPROPRIATE MONUMENTS and their external collaborators. The members of the platform are SF:ius – Social Fringe: interesting untold stories (Zagreb), Group of Architects (Belgrade), Modern Gallery (Ljubljana) and the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina (Sarajevo). 

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Financial support: Balkan Arts and Culture Fund – BAC ( COLABs ) , Kultura Nova Foundation, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

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