Montages/Монтаже/Montaže/Montazhe by Theodore Teichman

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.

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