OVERCOMING PAST May 2005
MAY 26th-29th, 2005
Thursday, May 26th, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm, 4.00 - 6.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
PANEL DISCUSSION
OVERCOMING PAST


Moderator: Senadin Musabegović, Sarajevo (B&H)
- Historical controversies / New views
- Today's controversies what is being talked about, on what we keep silent?
- Continuities and discontinuities of two collectivisms: socialism and nationalism
- Overcoming war-related trauma in the process of community reunification
- Ethno-national politics as a result of the transition logic of destruction of socialism
- Peace agreement - a model of conservation, and of generatation of a new political conflict
- War as the means of revising and "overcoming" the past
- Identity / new identities: who and what forms them today? Who are we, what are we?
- What is being taught at schools, what is not being taught at schools?
- Lessons of the past lessons to be learned (how to recognize fascism?)
Panelists:
- Žarko Puhovski (Zagreb)
- Ugo Vlaisavljević (Sarajevo)
- Svetlana Đurković (Sarajevo)
- Amer Filipović (Sarajevo)
- Aleksandar Hemon (Sarajevo - Chicago)
- Vladimir Marković (Belgrade)
Thursday, May 26th (opening at 7:30 pm) - June 11th
National Gallery of B&H
EXHIBITION
COLLECTIVE vs INDIVIDUAL

- Erzen Shkololli (Peja) image
- Kurt&Plasto (Sarajevo) image
- Alma Suljević (Sarajevo) image
- Amila Smajović (Sarajevo) image
- Milica Tomić (Belgrade) image 1 2 3 4
- Damir Nikšić (Sarajevo) image
- Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb) image 1 2 3
- Ervin Babić (Dubrovnik - Sarajevo) image
Friday, May 27th, 10.00 am-2.00 pm, 4.00-7.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
MONUMENT TODAY AND HERE: IDEAS, CONCEPTS, REALISATIONS ARTISTS'S PRESENTATIONS
Moderator: Bojana Pejić, Berlin
- The Winner(s) of the Sarajevo Monument's Competition Presentation image
- Sokol Beqiri, Skenderbeg and Mother Theresa Monuments (Peja)
- Nino Raspudić, Bruce Lee Monument (Mostar)
- Tadej Pogačar, "Kings of the Street", Parasite Museum (Ljubljana)
- Branimir Stojanović New Monument Competition (Belgrade)
- Dalibor Martinis, "JBT 27.12. 2004" (Zagreb)
- Radenko Milak, "Overcoming History" (Banja Luka) image 1 image 2
- Maryam Mameghanian-Prenzlow, NBK, The Berlin Project (Berlin) image
Saturday, May 28th, 10.00 am-3.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
DISCUSSION (ROUND TABLE)
CONTEXTUAL ARTISTIC PRACTICES
Moderator: Bojana Pejić
- Art-in-Context
- Political in the "public" art
- "Public" art and the staging of "public" memories
- Art as social corrective?
- Artistic act/work as a substitution of political act/work?

Participants:
- Antonia Majača (Zagreb)
- Alma Suljević (Sarajevo)
- Branimir Stojanović (Beograd)
- Dalibor Martinis (Zagreb)
- Nebojša Jovanović (Sarajevo)
- Tadej Pogačar (Ljubljana)
- Svebor Midžić (Belgrade)
- Asim Mujkić (Sarajevo)
Saturday, May 28th, 6.00 pm
National Gallery of B&H
LECTURE
Bojana Pejić: PUBLIC ART AND POLITICS OF MEMORY