production

BLOK CURATORIAL TEAM AWARDED FOR RESEARCH ON ARTISTS ASSOCIATION ZEMLJA

THE TREŠNJEVKA MARKET CINEMA: ROSETTA

Friday 12/07/2019 9 PM

RIGHT TO WORK: THE WAY WE LEFT IT
SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM (9’)

DIR.: MARICA LALIĆ, IVAN LASIĆ, 2015

ROSETTA

FEATURE FILM (95’)

DIR.: JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE, LUC DARDENNE, 1999

THE “STREET OF WOMEN ANCESTORS” FILM PROGRAM
 CURATOR: MARTA BARADIĆ

The socially engaged, realistic drama Rosetta was filmed in 1999, a time of high unemployment rates in Europe. It takes place in a de-industrialised suburbs in eastern Belgium, where the eponymous heroine lives in a trailer with her alcoholic mother. The film opens with Rosetta’s getting fired and, almost in real time, it follows the poor teenager as she desperately tries to find and keep a job. [...]

LJUBICA LETINIĆ AND BLOK: RADIO BAZA

THREE-DAY RADIO STATION

13 – 15/06/2019 FROM 6 PM

93.9 MHz, BROADCAST FROM ADŽIJINA 11

For the third consecutive year Adžijina 11 will see a gathering of artists, radiophonicists, researchers, activists and musicians in the joint production of critical and educational programs, and artistic and radiophonic experiments. This year it spans three days, but the mission is the same: Radio BAZA seeks to revive the oldest electronic medium as a space of feminist historical heritage. [...]

education

PROMOTION OF THE 2019 POLITICAL SCHOOL FANZINE

The fanzine created by this year’s class of the Political School came about through a desire for the group to continue its work together and articulate political attitudes and knowledge inspired by the School, both through text and illustration. It was conceived and produced by the participants in its entirety: from the production of texts, through editing and proofreading, to graphic design. In that sense, it is heterogeneous in terms of its content and form, and reflects the topics that the participants found particularly inspiring or provoking. These topics were largely those that pertain to feminist theory and practice, and the relationship between art and labour. [...]

POLITICAL SCHOOL FOR ARTISTS (AND ALL INTERESTED) 2019

 

Do you want to address social issues through art? Does experience tell you that the idea of ‘the world of art’ as a separate sphere independent from society is mere rhetoric? Would you like to learn more about the concept of the autonomy of art, artistic genius and talent? Are you an artist, but you’re forced to work outside the sphere of art in order to survive? Does capitalism have you working your fingers to the bone and you want to see whether there’s an alternative? Do you want to find out what class really means and why we need class theory in order to understand the society in which we live? Are you interested in the history of socialism as an ideology and the history of the labour movement as a political force? Do you want to find out more about actually existing socialisms, beyond the mantra of ‘socialism is a utopia’? Do you consider the woman question inseparable from theoretical and practical reflections on radical social and economic changes? Do you want to learn more about the history of feminism within the framework of the international socialist and workers’ movement? Do you recognise the power of trade unions, but can’t make sense of the workers’ struggle and organization in modern terms? Are you fed up with the way right-wingers and capitalism’s proponents speak over you [...]

READING ROOM OF THE BASE

 

Božidara Adžije 11, Zagreb

We are happy to announce that we've made an on-line database of all the books and publications from our library, and thereby officially opened the READING ROOM OF THE BASE.
The library comprises books from the fields of socially engaged art, architecture and urban studies, political theory, feminism, history of socialism and others that imbue our activity, as well as our own publications. In the context in which libraries and public institutions were systematically purged of books of objectionable ideological content, it is important to stress that a significant part of our collection includes 'rejected' books [...]