production

LJUBICA LETINIĆ & BLOK: RADIO BAZA

one-day radio station

12 October 2018

93.9 MHz, broadcast from Adžijina 11


Zvuk se sa zvukom mazi na Radio BAZI (Sounds pet sounds at Radio Baza...) Last year’s playful slogan brought together a number of artists, radiophonicists, researchers, activists and musicians in Trešnjevka, Zagreb, where it provided commodified ‘airtime’ for joint production, through a revival of the radio as a tool for broadcasting critical ideas about the contemporary issues of housing, and as a space for radiophonic and artistic experiments. This year we also approach the issue of housing from a feminist perspective and through the prism of the spatial organization of everyday life. While last year’s focus was on the kitchen as the place of women’s exploitation, this year we zero in on the bedroom and the issues of sex life and work, domestic violence, carework and reproductive rights. We also make room to address issues with sleeping [...]

PETRA BELC: HOUSING ON FILM

In the mid-1950s, a residential community was built in Moscow and named Cheryomushki (Черемушки, rough translation: Cherry Town). It quickly gained international notoriety and became a “metaphor of modernity”. Many Soviet cities soon started building their own “cherry tree” suburbs, following a simple design with plenty of green spaces between apartment blocks, alongside children’s parks and a complete infrastructure. It was an ambitious response to the post-war housing crisis: these five-storey buildings made of concrete panels represented the solution to the housing problem for more than a hundred million people across the Soviet Union. The social significance of Cheryomushki is recorded in the cultural history of the USSR in the shape of Moscow, Cheryomushki (1985), an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, which was made into a film by Herbert Rappaport four years later, under the title Cheryomushki [...]

RAFAELA DRAŽIĆ: LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE

action


THURSDAY, JULY 5 at 8 PM
BOŽIDARA ADŽIJE STREEt 7-9, ZAGREB

The intervention consists of laying the foundation stone with an inscription inspired by the model workers’ settlement project that the local government had plans to build in Bubara in the 19th and early 20th century. The inscription also serves as something of a homage to female workers, given that the jobs in the former Bubara were performed by predominantly women. At a time when workers’ housing was ‘dealt with’ through market mechanisms, the project was abandoned. Today, when the land is privately owned, one can hazard a guess as to what type of ‘investment’ might take place there [...]

education

HERITAGE FROM BELOW

FIRST PUBLICATION IN THE TENDENCIJA (Tendency) BOOK SERIES

(Art and Property Now and Other Essays)

FINAL EXHIBITION

June 8 – September 8 2018


"Youth (in) Culture", an exhibition in the lobby of the House of Culture in Đurđevac, presents the results of the three workshops held as part of the project. The visitors can leaf through the Hasanaginica 2.0 art book, created by the students of the Dr Ahmed Smajlović Islamic Secondary School in Zagreb together with designers Nina Bačun and Roberta Bratović of the OAZA collective; and view the Train in the Snow 2.0 collage film, created by the students of the Zagreb Technical School together with artists Srđan Kovačević and Bojan Mrđenović; while the PMotives of Podravina 2.0 workshop is presented through a series of drawings and paintings by the students of the Dr Ivan Kranjčev High School in Đurđevac. The graffiti piece the students have painted together with graffiti artists Mario Miličić and Antonija Bačić can be seen on the school’s wall, a short walk from the House of Culture [...]