Urban Festival Zagreb /11.07 - 15.07 / 26.08 -31.08/ 23.09 - 29.9/ Second Shift

Wed Aug 21 19:38:39 CEST 2002

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Urban Festival Zagreb /11.07 - 15.07/26.08 -31.08/23.09 - 29.9/ 
First Shift /11.07 - 15.07/

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Cvjetni trg
11 July, 9 pm
CANCELLED DUE TO DIFFICULTIES IN THE PROCESS OF 
THE OBTAINING THE LOCATION PERMIT

Zeljko Zorica
(Croatia)
Let the History Talk

Instead of the usual cocktail party, the Festival will be closed 
with the installation which basic material is food. 'Let the History 
Talk' is the fourth in the sequence of 12 performances named 
'The Last Meals'. All of them are 'prepared' by the order of the 
organiser and intended for a certain occasion, no matter whether 
it is a festival, a wedding or an anniversary of a political party.

What are the attempts of the performance?
a) to close the Festival officially
b) to mix the political speech used in times of different political systems in Croatia
c) to offer the refreshment to the audience
d) to please the organisers
e) to convince the public of the necessity of the Festival
f) to thank Dr. Hans Christian Zabludovsky for all the help he generously 
offers to young artists

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Glavni kolodvor
11 July, 11 pm

Janos Sugar
(Hungary)
Context Party

A big dance party in the open where music is played on 
headphones - those who enter the space of The Context Party 
make a decision: to take the headphones and, listening to the music, 
become a part of the dancing crowd or to refuse them. Making a 
second choice the visitor can only hear T(the secondary noiset) 
of people dancing and so feel the state of being out of the context. 
Popular techno party phenomenon is suitable for such an experiment 
- observing without complete engagement.

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various locations
12 - 16 July, 0 - 24 h

Shadow Casters
(Int.)
Shadow Casters

Authors:
Boris Bakal, Katarina Pejovic, Pina Siotto
Bill Aitchinson, Ana Husman, Irina Karakehayova, Janja Rakus, 
Carla Tommasini, Zhana Ivanova

The 'Shadow Casters' project is a complex system of city travelling 
- a sort of an Internet-guide that turns into a real, individually adjusted
 event in the form of a city tour. Within this 
travelling-performance-event-installation, which structure is open, 
a participant-traveller is invited to experience his or her physical 
and mental abilities of understanding and creating new situations 
within real and hyper-real environments. Individual journey starts at 
different city or web points (each participant receives a password 
instead of a travelling ticket) and is limited to 3-15 hours that can be 
arranged within one or several days. Discovering, step by step, the 
keys of new possibilities of travelling the participant-traveller writes 
down untold Zagreb stories like a detective.

boo.mi2.hr/shadowcasters

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variuos locations
12 - 15 July

Cecilia Mandrile
(Argentina / Great Britain)
The Perfume of Absence

'This project, The Perfume of Absence, is based on a process of 
construction, documentation, destruction and reconstruction of 
fragments in different scenarios. During months of traveling, teaching 
and working with artists from different cultures, I was carrying with me 
pieces of what once was an installation in a gallery space. I portrayed 
these fragments in new landscapes that were surrounding me in the journey, 
as an attempt to document my experience in these scenes as a witness and 
as a performer.'
...Cecilia

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various locations
Juha Valkeapää
(Finland)
City Talk

'City Talk' is a vocal solo walk, the performance that uses human 
voice in different forms, while mostly avoiding meaningful speech. 
During a two - hour walk through the city the performer gives his 
voice to city objects that he himself chooses: statues, sculptures, 
traffic signs, shop windows, mail boxes, fountains, etc. which are, 
through this dialogue, given new dimensions.

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various locations
16 July

Fakultet za raboti sto ne se ucat - FRU
(Macedonia)
V-Ritual Reality

'Learning from the experience of old Greeks we will take the 
adventure of creating a web-mythology composed of dead objects, 
simulacrums and institutions that fatally radiate self fascination and 
malicious justification. Mentioned elements will be transcended into 
global net (Internet), visualised and in that way conceptually 
destroyed in reality. Those malign tissues will be cut out of the body 
of the generally accepted meaning - we will leave nothing but the 
web sites!'

www.frumk.cjb.net

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mama, Preradoviceva 18
16 July, 7 pm

pronews:
12 July, 10.15 am
13 - 16 July, 10.05 am
Radio 101 - 94,3 / 90,7 MHz

Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer
(Slovenia)
Problemarket

'The word problem has always had a sort of negative connotation. 
The general viewpoint is that nobody wants to have problems.
We believe that problems spice up life. When someone is confronted 
with a problem, they have to draw together a surge of energy in 
order to face it and solve it.
We therefore consider problems as the catalysts of energy. In this 
sense, they have a value and therefore can be placed on the market.

Problemarket.com is a joint-stock company on which shares of 
several different companies dealing with problems are floated. 
It is responsible for organising and managing the international 
Problem Stock Exchange, formally created at the beginning of 
2000 and operational since November 16, 2001.
Problemarket.com organises and manages the international 
Problem Stock Market with the participation of over 180 domestic 
and international brokers who operate in Slovenia and from abroad 
through remote membership using a fully electronic trading system 
for real-time trading.
Problemarket.com is you. It is about you. And for you...'

www.problemarket.com

Pronews3
Proletariat on Russian Square

Proletariat d.d., the association of workers with urban problems, 
has announced they had signed a long-term business contract 
with the Russian concern ProRabot that covers 88% of the 
Russian market of workers with urban problems. The contract 
is a 316 pro business, where Proletariat d.d. gets 49% of the profit. 
The leadership of Proletariat d.d. claims they intend to spread their 
business on other areas connected with social and urban activities, 
in spite of the strong competition on the Russian market.

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Trg bana Jelacica - monument
13 July, 8 pm

Fakultet za raboti sto ne se ucat - FRU
(Macedonia)
Protest against myself

A performance that appears in the form of a classical protest - 
the act that is a familiar form of expressing dissatisfaction and 
revolt in our everyday life, with the aim to achieve a change in 
the system - individual relation. 'The Protest against Myself' is 
an act of critical communication that develops self-irony and 
self-criticism. It is also a commentary of the modern world in 
which social revolutions became trivial and human beings 
turned into ugly, fat, rich and unsatisfied creatures. Join us!

URBAN FESTIVAL Second Shift /26.08 -31.08/ 

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various locations
26 - 31 August

Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson
(Canada)
Duorama series
A series of new performances in Zagreb is a part of a continuous
'Duorama' Series, which explores understanding of emotional
relationships. Funny, occasionally minimalist, these pieces awake
tensions, which lie in the basis of any kind of human
companionship. At the same time these works can be seen in
the terms of social and political climate surrounding gay
culture. Strategy of the artistic work includes exhibiting
'live sculptures': hanging on the walls, pillars and entrances,
using exaggerated gestures and sounds, interacting with different
materials.

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mama, Preradoviceva 18
26 August, 7 pm

Wilfried Hou Je Bek
(Netherlands)
Generative Psychogeography
Image of the native city, which is considered well known,
is challenged in the series of experiments named
'Generative psychogeography.'
Inhabitants use their city strictly functionally passing
through it with a clear aim, always following the same route,
creating navigational habits that mould their
knowledge of the environment. Therefore, it is not strange
that treasures of city life can be found in unexpected places.
Generative psychogeography is a tool that helps us excavate
these urban marvels hidden just around the corner.
'Generative psychogeography' fills the streets with pedestrians
who take the time to contemplate what is happening around
them, always ready to interact with other people and actively
promoting healthy pedestrian culture.
www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography

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mama, Preradoviceva 18
27 August, 7 pm

Jody Zellen
(USA)
Visual Chaos
'Visual Chaos' is a concise web project, which
explores the idea of chaos ruling the web space. It is composed
of numerous moving windows as well as windows placed in the
specific parts of the monitor. The site explores ideas, which
communicate with the abstract idea of the city. Internet is
a metaphor for many different ways of travelling a modern city.

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Gric park
27 August, 9 pm

Jody Zellen
(USA)
Ghost City
'Ghost City' is a website focused on the representation of
the city through mass media using web space as a sculptural
space, which allows the audience to interact with the animated
graphics with the aim to draw them deeper into the imaginary
city. www.ghostcity.com

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Trg Petra Preradovica
27 - 31 August, 7 - 10 pm

Urtica
(Yugoslavia)
Omnigenus
Following the credo 'Urtica medicamentum est'
('Nettle is a cure') the 'Omnigenus' project supports the right
to be different, re-questioning traditional social frame.
The necessity to suit the large number of people defined Omnigenus
as a mass - consuming product, which will therefore be presented
through mass media and public promotions in non-artistic spaces.
Using marketing media space, in fact, usurping commercial
physical space Urtica ironically comments modern society credo
'We have a cure for everything' criticising consumer society.

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mama, Preradoviceva 18
28 August, 7 pm

absolutely
(Yugoslavia)
<intermezzo>
Basic idea of the project is 'catching' the
sounds of Novi Sad during the period of one year. Choosing
specific locations for sounds recording, absolutely tries
to present reality which is authentic, although difficult
to perceive. Absolutely tries not to intervene, but to record
the sound of 'now and here' in the defined point of time and
space - Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1998 and 1999.
This is a universal story about a city and its inhabitants,
including different segments of life, from a wedding to an air raid.

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Dolac market
31 August, 11 am - 1 pm

Kristina Leko
(Croatia)
Milk 2002/03
Following the European Integration process comes
the neglecting of certain local values. The 'Milk 2002/03'
project will investigate whether the process of adjusting
economic standards can be modified in a way that certain older
levels of local ethnic identity are functionally protected
and maintained. Since one of the marginal consequences of
the adjusting will be the disappearance of a traditional trade
- the milkmaid, this project aims at researching, documentation,
archive and media presentation of the social position of the milkmaid.
Our aim is to start lobbying in order to force political
management to reconsider the cultural value of the phenomenon
and eventually place it under protection. Research results
and archive data presentation can be expected in autumn 2003.
This year come to take some cream and cheese.

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Sestinski dol 65b
31 August, 7 pm

Zeljko Zorica
(Croatia)
Let the History Talk vol. II
to appear