20th Century Heritage
book promotion
KIC, Zagreb, March 28, 2025 at 5 p.m.
topics:
Socialist Yugoslavia, Decoloniality and the Non-Aligned Movement
The Praxis School 1963 - 1974
Bernardo Bernardi
Yugoslav Art Colonies
International Artists’ Meetings in Vela Luka 1968 - 1972
free download: link
<http://sivazona.hr/images/novi-dokumenti/20th_Century_Heritage.pdf>
The book 20th Century Heritage points to good cultural and artistic practices
from the history of the 20th century. As part of the book promotion, a
conversation will be held with the participation of Darko Fritz, Ljiljana
Kolešnik and Paul Stubbs. The publisher is Grey Area from Korčula, and the
editor and designer is Darko Fritz. The authors of the texts are Darko Fritz,
Ljiljana Kolešnik, Ante Marinović, Sani Sardelić, Paul Stubbs and Mislav Žitko.
The book was created as a hybrid form of the proceedings of a symposium held in
Korčula in 2022 and a presentation of Igor Grubić's art project Untitled
(Praxis), which is exhibited at 25 locations across Europe during 2022, all as
part of the Who Cares? project with the support of Creative Europe. The 96-page
book presents texts in English with 60 color illustrations. A free copy will be
available to all interested parties at the promotion.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, the symposium and publication explore the
cultural and geopolitical context of two of the most significant international
gatherings on the island of Korčula, the Korčula Summer School (1963-1974) and
the International Artists' Meetings in Vela Luka (1968-1972). Critical thinkers
around the journal Praxis and the Korčula Summer School developed a unique
trajectory of humanistic Marxism and social analysis in the context of
socialist, self-governing and non-aligned Yugoslavia, and created a place for
the exchange of critical views between East and West in the context of the Cold
War. Mislav Žitko analyzes the social antagonisms that were at the heart of
Praxis philosophy. Paul Stubbs examines the Yugoslav context, decoloniality and
the Non-Aligned Movement. Ljiljana Kolešnik presents the rich history of the
development of art colonies in Yugoslavia, once the country with the most art
colonies in the world, and Darko Fritz points to the example of one colony -
the International Artists' Meetings in Vela Luka. It began as a colony of
visual artists working in the medium of mosaic, but through the next two
editions it developed into the fields of interdisciplinary synthesis of
different artistic disciplines, urbanism, architecture and finally a multimedia
approach that includes mass media and the participation of the local
population. Sculptor Ante Marinović, a participant in the International Meeting
of Visual Artists in Vela Luka, presents Luka Mozaika, a project of creating
mosaics in public space, which is being realized with the community. Sani
Sardelić presents the circumstances of the event 100 years after the birth of
Bernard Bernardi in the conditions of the pandemic.
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