[oberlist] MOTEL TROGIR: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Open call

Thu May 14 13:00:51 CEST 2015

MOTEL TROGIR: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Open Call

Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale & Slobodne veze/Loose Associations
launch an open call for artists

*MOTEL TROGIR *
*Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore*
a collaborative project
Trogir/Split, June 19-21, 2015 // Milano, October 2015.

*Applications close Sunday May 17th 2015*

Motel Trogir was built in 1965 and designed by one of the leading
architects of the Socialist Yugoslavia – Ivan Vitić. It is situated at the
western entrance to the city of Trogir on the Adriatic coast (25km from the
city of Split). Today it marks one of the neuralgic points of the town and
for many years it has been standing devastated due to unresolved ownership
issues (due to the non-transparent privatization of what once was ‘societal
property’, in the beginning of the 1990s). Built at a time when the
character of tourism in Trogir was mostly transitory, the motel was
conceived in parallel with the construction of the Adriatic Highway. At the
time it was seen “as one of the “performative” elements that would fit into
the utopian vision of this road imagined as a feature film that would be
“shown to the passengers on the screen of their car window.” The motel is,
in general, an exception to the typology of Adriatic tourism, and it is
argued that the idea of such buildings in the Yugoslav socialist society
came through American movies.

In Martin Scorsese’s movie ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ (1974) a woman
with her son ride across the USA in their car, using motels as temporary
shelters. The endless road in search for the utopian place of happiness
becomes the meaning for itself. The trajectory slowly delineates the
(hi)story. Motels become their permanent home.

“Today when distances are shortened and relativized due to the (too) fast
technical development, the motel’s true reason disappears, and it becomes
incomprehensible and confined to the arbitrariness of formal judgement. Set
apart from experimental scope of everyday life, the motel is closer to
passionate incomprehensibility (the times of myths) than passionless
knowledge (of today)”*

In the framework of the Mediterranea 17, Young Artists Biennial, we invite
artists to reflect the topic of this particular modernist building (along
with the social context which formed it), duration and image, alternating
between the gritty realism and daring fantasy, and to send us the
proposals. We would like that the context and the building, become a stage,
a protagonist or a trigger for the new personal or common narrative that
would develop around the topics exposed. Selected artists will be invited
for a three day trip to Trogir and Split in June 2015 which will include
study visits and a workshop. During this period *a research* will be
done *which
will be presented during the Biennale of Young Artists* (in Milan/October
2015).

Intermedia (photography, video, film, performance) is favoured in this
call, due to the specificity of the context that will be tackled (but other
media artists ARE BY NO MEANS excluded).

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*IMPORTANT NOTE: this call refers primarily to the artists preselected by
the BJCEM network and is open to artists from Croatia. However Slobodne
veze//Loose Associations are launching it also globally. The proposals by
artists who are NOT preselected by the BJCEM network NOR coming from
Croatia will also be accepted. Those artists will be invited ONLY to
Croatia, Trogir/Split at the end of September/early October to realize
their projects (in this case THERE IS NO AGE LIMITATION!).*

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The organizer does not provide additional technical equipment during
workshop and trips!

We offer accommodation, travel, per diems for the whole period stated. *(For
Trogir interventions in Sept/Oct 2015 an artist fee and a modest production
budget will be offered).*

Please send us your proposals (1 page maximum + short CV) to:
slobodne.veze at gmail.com. *(Those applying ONLY for Trogir in Sept/Oct 2015
please include budget projection to your application.)*

*Deadline for the proposals: May 17th 2015.* .

More about the Motel in Trogir:

https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/category/commons/

https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/publications/
<https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/category/publications/>

For all other questions, please do not hesitate to write us to-
slobodne.veze at gmail.com

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<https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/motel-trogir-alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore/slobodne.veze@gmail.com%20>

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THE MOTEL TROGIR PROJECT IN 2015 HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE KULTURA NOVA
FOUNDATION

[image: Kultura Nova logo]
<https://slobodneveze.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/kultura-nova-logo.jpg>

MINISTRY OF CULTURE, REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

[image: MK_logo]
<https://slobodneveze.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/mk_logo.gif>

ZAGREB CITY OFFICE FOR EDUCATION, CUTURE AND SPORTS

[image: grb-zagreb-gradski-uredi]
<https://slobodneveze.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/grb-zagreb-gradski-uredi.png>

BJCEM

[image: M17_logo2]
<https://slobodneveze.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/m17_logo2.png>

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nataša bodrožić
slobodne veze/loose associations
http://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/

SAVE MOTEL TROGIR!
http://moteltrogir.tumblr.com/
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