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Save the date! We cordially invite you to the long due Balkan Talks 3. A talk about politics of remembrance, inscribed in architecture, urban planning, and the fight for the commons. From Humboldt-Forum to the tearing down of Hotel Jugoslavia, we’ll delve into questions of how commodified public spaces serve as means of oppression and exclusion, as well as re-inventions of imagined pasts. We are happy to welcome and present the following guests:
Dubravka Sekulić is an educator, author, and architect. She is a Programme Lead for MA City Design at the Royal College of Arts in London. Her research explores transformations of contemporary cities, at the nexus between the production of space, laws, and economy. She holds a PhD from the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich (CH) on the relationship between the Yugoslav construction industry and the Non-aligned Movement. She is working on a book, City Against the City: minorplanning for the Liberated Future. In 2020, with Ana Hušman, she made a film "Don't Trace, Draw!" on the spatial legacy of Yugoslav pedagogical reforms.
Adnan Softić (b. 1975 in Sarajevo/BA) studied film and aesthetic theory at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg/DE, where he also taught as a professor of film and time-based media). Adnan is an author, visual artist and director. In his interdisciplinary works he addresses the politics of historical remembrance, examining the relationships between architecture and violence and narration and exile, and dealing with extraterritoriality, invisibility and postcolonial criticism. He describes his artistic approach as ‘post-traumatic entertainment,’ which aims to bring together incompatible perspectives. Excerpts of his work “Bigger Than Life”, which won the Grand Prize of the International Competition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur/CH (2018) as well as the 3sat Prize at the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen/DE (2018), will be shown throughout the talk.
Moderated by Hana Ćurak, a cultural researcher, author, and producer. Currently, she works as a research associate at HU - Institute for European Ethnology, and as a teaching assistant with Piotr Piotrowski Center. She is the founder of the platform Sve su to vještice, member of Crvena Association for Culture and Art and the Center for Peripheries collective. In her PhD project (University of Zürich, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, from Spring 2024), titled "Collectiveness and Radical Futures: Shared Curatorship as Intervention", Hana ethnographically explores whether collective curatorial practices are able to intervene across different temporalities and social and political contexts.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Museum des Kapitalismus, Köpenicker Straße 172, 10997 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, Germany