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Sunday, 16th of September 2007
Boulevard of Illusions: Learning from New Belgrade
a public project by Stefan Römer
In the framework of the project of the Centre for Visual Culture MoCAB
titled Differentiated Neighbourhoods, a public art project and filming
of a road-movie of German artist Stefan Roemer was staged on the
Boulevard of Mihajlo Pupin. For this the Boulevard is framed with two
billboards with the title of the project at the beginning and the end
into a film scenario which is in the same time an art intervention in
the public sphere.
The project:
The project is prospecting a history of New Belgrade’s development on
the former Boulevard of Lenin. It raises a discussion of the urban and
historical function of New Belgrade: What was the plan for the block
system as a socialist utopian city project? How did the people (miss-)
use the planned urban structure? Which are the specific stories told
here in this new extension of the old city of Beograd? If the whole
city is a panoptic system, New Belgrade with its block system is a
utopian format of this. Specifically, with the new growing areas with
big international hotels, banks and shopping malls in relation to the
apartment blocks and the representational buildings from the socialist
area prospected on the “Boulevard of Illusions” are all together
visible history in its own.
The artist:
Stefan Roemer works conceptually between art practice and theory; his
works and essays are widely exhibited. He is teaching New Media at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
His last documentary film »Conceptual Paradise« is a discussion on
Conceptual art and is released 2006.
On the project Differentiated Neighbourhoods:
The project Differentiated Neighbourhoods consists of socio-spatial
research and artistic intervention in local urban structures.
The project will explore different connotations of the term
neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural and
social context. It will comprise of two parallel sets of events:
- Series of presentations and lectures at the MOCAB by guest
experts in 2006/2007
- Workshops, research and art projects of the members of
initial research group coming from different fields such as sociology,
urbanism, architecture, art history, visual arts, philosophy that will
try to address the issue from the perspective of their profession. The
team has chosen for the case study several neighbourhoods in New
Belgrade.
Initial research group:
Vera Backovic, MA student of sociology, Belgrade, Serbia; Bik Van der
Pol, artists Rotterdam, Netherlands; Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber,
artists, Vienna, Austria; Ljiljana Blagojevic, professor, Faculty of
Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia; Adam Budak, curator, Kunsthaus Graz,
Austria; Dusan Cavic, journalist, RTV B92, Belgrade, Serbia;
Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, artist, Belgrade, Serbia; Davor Eres,
architect, Belgrade, Serbia; Sanja Jovovic, architect, Belgrade,
Serbia; Jakob Kolding, artist, Copenhagen, Denmark / Berlin, Germany;
Tamara Maricic, urban planner, Belgrade, Serbia; Ivana Milenkovic,
architect of the New Belgrade municipality, Belgrade, Serbia; Jelena
Mitrovic, architect, Belgrade, Serbia; Mina Petrovic, Professor at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, University of
Belgrade, Serbia; Ivan Petrovic, film and TV director, Belgrade,
Serbia; Dunja Predic, student of architecture, Belgrade, Serbia;
Stefan Roemer, artist and theorist, Munich, Germany; Dubravka Sekulic,
student of architecture, Belgrade, Serbia; Dusan Saponja, journalist,
RTV B92, Belgrade, Serbia; Mark Terkessidis, theorist, Berlin,
Germany.
Initiator of the project:
Zoran Eric, curator of the Centre for Visual Culture, MoCAB
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