Research Catalogue

About this exposition

In this project, I aim to challenge the stereotyped imaginaries and captivating iconography that renders Ex-Yugoslavia as the balkan other to Western modernity. This project is not merely concerned with an alternate imaginary for the Balkans but to disturb the concept of “moderntity” vis-à-vis modernism(s). I make audio recordings of a moment in time at iconographic sites that have generally been cast as the backdrop to the narratives of socialist modernism and the telegenic collapse in the 1990s. Instead, I put the backdrop in the foreground; I record and montage the room noise, unsettling these stagings with a more distanced—rather than seemingly immediate—auditory image. By playing with the fidelity and proximity of the sound picture, this study unsettles the captivatingly simplified, politically potent imaginaries of “capitalist realism” and “Yugonostalgia” that are staged against—and currently reshape—the “backdrop” of Ex-Yugoslavia’s built environment.

type	research exposition
date	03/10/2021
last modified	28/02/2023
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	University of Virginia
copyright	2019
license	All rights reserved
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1380058/1380101

name	Titles
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text

name	Reflections on collection as a whole
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text

name	01 (of 5,000,000)
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Subtitle
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text

name	Landing(s) - Slavija (Hotel), March 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Slavija
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

name	Inside the Avala Telecommunications Tower, March 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Underneath Terazije Square, Belgrade, 2018
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Underground
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

name	Yugoslavia, 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Jug 2
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

name	Motion Sickness – April 2019 (Zenica)
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Zenica
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

name	Waiting for a train, Sarajevo, 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Anteroom, Zetra Ice Rink, April 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Momo & Uzeir - Elevator Lobby, April 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Holiday Inn, noon, April 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Holiday Inn
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

name	Kosovo’s grains – Fushe Kosova/Kosovo Polje, 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Fushe Kosova 1
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

name	Promenade (Metabolism) – Pristina, March 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Open Space – Pristina Train Station (defunct), Fushe Kosova/Kosovo Polje, 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Projection room (and other spaces) – Grand Hotel, Pristina, March 2019
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	audio

name	Grand hotel
copyright	2019
license	CC BY-NC-ND
usages	background

an international database for artistic research

Montages/Монтаже/Montaže/Montazhe (last edited: 2023)

Copyrights