[oberlist] MOTEL TROGIR: THE EAST IS WEST OF THE WEST_ open call

[natasa bodrozic]

Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean (BJCEM) & Loose
Associations (Slobodne veze) launch an open call for artists under the age
of 35

*MOTEL TROGIR: ‘THE EAST IS WEST OF THE WEST’**

a collaborative project _ study visit / short term residency

PLACE OF THE RESIDENCY: Trogir/Split, Croatia

TIME OF THE RESIDENCY: September 11-15 2016.

*Applications close Sunday July 24th 2016.*


/IMPORTANT NOTE: IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE TOPIC/THE MOTEL TROGIR
PROJECT AND YOU ARE ARTIST OVER 35, DO NOT HESITATE TO SEND US YOUR
PROPOSAL FOR OUR CONSIDERATION BEYOND THIS RESIDENCY/

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*About the project*

The MOTEL TROGIR project is focused on preservation and (re)evaluation of
the mid-20th century architectural heritage from the period of the
Socialist Yugoslavia on the Adriatic coast (and beyond). As a part of the
annual artistic project, in collaboration with the BJCEM, we invite artists
under the age of 35 to join the short term residency/study visit to two mid
Dalmatian towns- Trogir and Split, where they will be introduced to the
spatial and social context in which this architecture was made to be. This
year’s topic will have as its task to examine *how the story appears,
relating it to the concrete context and the modernist built environment in
mid Dalmatia*. How we make stories of places we (do not) know? What
influences our observation and perception of places, geographies with which
we don’t have direct contact or previous knowledge based on experiencing?

*The Theme*

Driving along the Highway on the Eastern Adriatic coast, one can track the
line of the (post WW2) modernist architectural heritage (often tourist
architecture) from the late 1950s to the 1980s. If one searches for them,
every now and then, one will find decaying structures standing by the road,
at the edges of the coastal towns or along the sea line. Even though in
many cases they lost their original function, often empty and in slight or
greater decay, they are sort of silent witnesses of the social conditions
and economy quite different from the one of today. Their ownership status
is often vague (due to non transparent privatization which occured in the
1990s), dimensions transgressive and design not quite fitting the dominant
(architectural) scenery of today. Surrounded by the urban mess,
paradoxically, they appear in space as some sort of “errors”, although
being advanced structures defined by their pure forms, incorporating
“emptiness”, forming generously spaces of common use. Once they were
socially owned- they belonged to people who worked in them (during
Socialist period of Yugoslav workers self-management). The fact that they
were conceived as extensions of the cities and nowadays stand half ruined,
in-between, but in a way “open”- makes them accessible and thus, once
again- common, no matter of their current (legal) ownership status.
However, cut off from the context that enabled their existence, in the eyes
of an accidental passer-by, they seem lacking the capacity to tell the
story from where they have appeared, what made them standing there and why.

[image: KOTEKS SPLIT]
<https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/motel-trogir-guided-tours/koteks-split/#main>
[image: 8- APPROACHING KOTEKS]
<https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/east-is-western-from-the-west-open-call/8-approaching-koteks-2/#main>

KOTEKS GRIPE, Sports and Shopping Complex, designed by architects Slaven
Rožić and Živorad Janković, 1979-1981, following the city development
incited by the 1979 Mediterranean Games (Photo by Diana Magdić, 2015.).


*A narrative is some kind of retelling, often in words, of something that
happened (a story). The narrative is not the story itself but rather the
telling of the story. While a story is a sequence of events, a narrative
recounts those events, perhaps leaving some occurrences out because they
are from some perspective insignificant, and (maybe) emphasizing others.
Narratives thus shape history (the series of events, the story of what
happened).*

*Framework/conditions:*

We invite artists to reflect the topic proposed. Send us 1 page artistic
proposal which considers the following terms: EAST- 20TH CENTURY MODERNISM-
ARCHITECTURE- MEMORY- STORYTELLING. These parameters can (but don’t have
to) be in relation with these two buildings- Motel Trogir and the KOTEKS
Sports and shopping center (please see featured images and descriptions).
[image: MOTEL TROGIR Duska Boban 2013_ small]
<https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/motel-trogir-alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore/motel-trogir-duska-boban-2013_-small/#main>

Motel Trogir (Motel Sljeme), designed in 1965 by Ivan Vitić, the central
point of our campaign for preservation of the mid 20th century modernist
architecture from the period of Socialist Yugoslavia (Photo: Duška Boban,
2013.)

[image: Duska Boban_ Motel Trogir 2]
<https://slobodneveze.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/motel-trogir-public-discussion/duska-boban_-motel-trogir-2/#main>

Selected artists will be invited for a three day trip to Trogir and Split
in September 2016 which will include study visits and a workshop. During
this period the first stage of the* research* will be done *which will be
presented during Mediterranea18, Biennale of Young Artists that will take
place in 2017.*

The organizer does not provide additional technical equipment during
workshop and trips. We offer accommodation, travel, per diems for the whole
period stated.

Please send us your proposals (1 page maximum + short CV- 1page maximum)
to: slobodne.veze at gmail.com.

*Deadline for submitting the proposals: July 24th 2016*

   - The title refers to the poem “POETRY WILL BE WRITTEN BY EVERYONE”
   (Poeziju će svi pisati) by Branko Miljković

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*The Motel Trogir project in 2016 has been supported by the Kultura nova
Foundation, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia & BJCEM*




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