Expanded documentation of the collaborative project Collective Domain of Cultural Memory (2018-2020)
Printed before completing the Collective Domain of Cultural Memory project, this book cannot be seen as a conclusion. Instead the book is a trajectory, a dendritic trail through the artistic practices and methods that were involved in the process of the becoming of the Collective Domain of Cultural Memory. In order to make space for discussing new ways of relating to and understanding cultural heritage, CDCM departs from three local cases in which each of the partner organizations have invested independently for years.
A critical reflection on and examination of the protection of modernist architecture from the second half of the twentieth century in Croatia.
A proposal for a more dissociative logic of archiving in a context of institutional neglect of modern architectural heritage in post-socialist North Macedonia.
And an exploration of unorthodox approaches to cultural heritage collections in the Netherlands.
These independent cases are connected in their methods; they consort with cultural heritage through artistic practices.
Any discussion regarding cultural heritage draws attention to the sociopolitical and cultural tendencies of the specific period from which the heritage originates as well as those of the present moment. Critical artistic practices open up possibilities for nonlinear perceptions of history. This allows us to recognize the discrepancies between the past and the present and to consider the multiplicity of viewpoints within them.
Some of the essays collected in this book represent empirical and theoretical explorations of artistic practices dealing with heritage, while others emphasize the political context in which the relations between heritage and artistic practices emerge, suffer, survive, or bloom. They all offer alternative understandings of cultural heritage in Europe in today’s transitional times.
Even though the discourse is stretched towards the locations where each of the partner organizations operates, we see throughout these texts how questions about the status of cultural heritage cross geographical borders.
What can an archive from the Institute for Town Planning and Architecture in Skopje destroyed in a fire, the neglect of Yugoslavian modernist architecture in Croatia, and depots piled high with well-preserved objects in the Netherlands teach us when redefining cultural heritage?
This book presents the unsettled ideas and explorations of the founders and curators of Press to Exit Project Space: Yane Calovski, Loose Associations: Natasa Bodrozic, and Suns and Stars: Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska, which arose in the process of the becoming of the CDCM project. Each partner organization invited a writer; prominent and meaningful voices in the fragmented and wandering discourse of artistic affiliations with cultural heritage. Loose Associations invited Ivana Bago, Press to Exit Project Space invited Jovanka Popova, and Suns and Stars invited Lucy Cotter. Their contributions bring new light to the ongoing project.
Edited by Anastasija Pandilovska & Marjoca de Greef
Contributors: Nataša Bodrožić, Ivana Bago, Jovanka Popova, Yane Calovski, Lucy Cotter, Anastasija Pandilovska, Marjoca de Greef
Graphic design: Anastasija Pandilovska
Publisher: Suns and Stars, Amsterdam
Size: 170 x 240mm
Cover 2×4 pages (double cover)
Inside 72 pages
More information about the CDCM project: http://cdcm.eu/
Get the publication by email: slobodne.veze@gmail.com