Project go_HOME

[Jennifer Gullace]

Project Description:
In the four-month residency and online project go_HOME, Bosnian artist
Danica Dakic and Croatian artist Sandra Sterle will explore physical,
cultural, and psychological dislocation and strategies for rebuilding and
renewal. In September 2001, the artists, two women of different ethnic
backgrounds from the former Yugoslavia who maintain homes and careers in
both West and East Europe, will relocate to New York City to live together
for four months in an experimental home. Artist Marjetica Potrc from
Slovenia and artist Milica Tomic with theorist Branimir Stojanovic from
Serbia, will participate in the project in September and December
respectively. The artists will utilize the physical residence and their
website?a virtual home on the internet?as a haven for creating video and
photographic projects, and as a common meeting ground for engaging the
interested public in dialogue around issues of migration, national identity,
technology, and globalization. 
The project will provide time and space for highly personal reflection and
artmaking as well as public discussion from fresh perspectives not often
heard in the United States. The go_HOME website will feature photographic,
video, and sound works; recipes; a bibliography; texts from the US and from
Eastern Europe; a calendar of events; chatrooms; and a guestbook. Each
month, the artists will invite artists, architects, scholars,
representatives from immigrant service organizations, and neighbors for
Sunday dinner discussions, which will be webcast live through the new media
center Location One in New York. The themes of the dinners will interweave
an exploration of the impact of the internet on culture and community with
the topics: Architectures of Migration; Women Who Travel Too Much:
Relocating Culture, Reproducing Home; Transitory Cases: Language, Media, and
Migration; Imagined Homes: Nationalism and Globalization. The October dinner
discussion will be point-to-point web-streamed with the Sarajevo Center for
Contemporary Arts' media lab. In November, the dinner discussion will be
point-to-point web-streamed with the new media center Mama (Mi2), in Zagreb,
Croatia. These two sites will each organize a parallel, interactive dinner
gathering for their evening of web-streamed dialogue with New York. 

Locations and Dates:
Go_HOME will take place in New York City and online from September 15, 2001
to December 31, 2001. Four Sunday dinner discussions with special guests
will be held during the course of the project. Each dinner will be webcast
at www.project-go-home.com and www.location1.org starting at 2:00 pm US
Eastern Time and 8:00 pm Central European Time on the following dates:

September 23		Architectures of Migration
October 14		Women Who Travel Too Much: Relocating Culture,
Reproducing Home
November 11		Transitory Cases: Language, Media, and Migration
December 16		Imagined Homes: Nationalism and Globalization


Partners:
	Go_HOME is an ArtsLink Special project funded by the Animating
Democracy Initiative, a program of Americans for the Arts funded by the Ford
Foundation; the Trust for Mutual Understanding; the Kettering Family
Foundation; CEC International Partners; and Franklin Furnace's "The Future
of the Present" program. 
	Location One, New York, will conduct the web streaming activities
through its network of international affiliates. The Sarajevo Center for
Contemporary Arts will host the point-to-point online discussion in
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on October 14. The new media center Mama
(Mi2), with the non-governmental organization What, How, and For Whom, will
host the point-to-point online discussion in Zagreb, Croatia, on November
11.


Press Contact: 	Fritzie Brown:  212.643.1985 x23 
		Katherine Carl:  718.398.0107