Anja Medved - Pronađeno vrijeme: foto album gradske četvrti Peščenica
„U društvenim se teorijama arhitekturu već odavno ne poima kao autonomnu disciplinu, ni grad kao strukturu definiranu isključivo arhitekturom i urbanističkim rješenjima. Naprotiv, suvremene subdiscipline, poput urbane antropologije, konceptualiziraju grad kao proces, naglašavajući aspekte fluidnosti, nedovršenosti i promjenjivosti i konstitutivnu ulogu pojedinca i zajednice.[1] Grad se, naime, kroz svakodnevne i prostorne prakse njegovih stanovnika, stalno iznova uspostavlja, mijenjajući odnose semantičkih, simboličkih, ekonomskih, političkih, prostornih i drugih slojeva. To stalno re-konstruiranje grada izmiče gabaritima zacrtanim, s jedne strane materijalnim granicama arhitekture, a s druge ideologijom, čineći ga dinamičnom, heterogenom i nedovršenom, a time i stalno otvorenom, strukturom. To je ujedno početna pozicija s koje vizualna umjetnica i dokumentaristica Anja Medved pristupa radu „Pronađeno vrijeme – foto album četvrti Peščenica“. Tematizirajući rubni urbani prostor, odnosno tranziciju gradske periferije iz nestrukturiranog i ruralnog područja u urbanu zonu, Anja Medved posegnula je za privatnim fotografijama stanovnika, stvarajući bazu zajedničkoga arhiva u kojemu će osobni pogledi, partikularni odabiri, fragmenti različitih povijesti postati jednakovrijedni segmenti zajedničke povijesti. Stanovnici su pozvani da je re-konstruiraju, da markiraju vlastita mjesta i vrijeme ili prepoznaju tragove svojih memorija u tuđima. Zabilježeni fragmenti proteklog vremena otkrivaju nekadašnje prostorne konfiguracije i prakse koje su ih oblikovale. Uvećani na mjere koje više nisu intimne, koje ne stanu u džep, novčanike, albume ili kutije za cipele – svojevrsne preddigitalne arhive – a zatim postavljeni u punom formatu na prozore galerije, oni postaju fizički znak u prostoru, jasna granica nejasnih odnosa. Jesu li sada te fotografije privatne ili zajedničke? Je li predstavljeni raslojeni prostor, prisvojen na različite načine, uvijek isti prostor? Koju i čiju historiju grade?“ (Irena Bekić, iz predgovora)
U sklopu otvorenja i razgovora s autoricom održat će se projekcija filma "Grad na livadi"
Grad na livadi
Video esej o Novoj Gorici Anje Medved i Nadje Velušček
scenarij i režija / ANJA MEDVED i NADJA VELUŠČEK; fotografija / RADOVAN ČOK; glazba / ALEKSANDER IPAVEC; urednik / ANJA MEDVED; arhiva ALEŠ MAVRIČ / MARTINA HUMAR; organizacija / MILOŠ KUMAR; producent / ALEŠ DOKTORIČ produkcija / KINOATELJE i ZAVOD KINOATELJE, 2004
trajanje 65 '
Nova Gorica / Gorica, 2004
Nakon Drugog svjetskog rata, po pripojenju slovenske regije Primorska Jugoslaviji, grad Gorizia (slovenski Gorica) pripao je Italiji, a na jugoslavenskoj se strani trebao izgraditi novi - Nova Gorica. Ideja je bila napraviti "nešto veliko što će zasjati preko granice". Ljudi su se doseljavali iz cijele Jugoslavije, no nakon nekoliko godina ovaj se veliki projekt financijski iscrpio. Godinama je Nova Gorica bila napola dovršen kostur na livadi s jednom neizmjerno širokom ulicom koja nije vodila nikamo. Novi su stanovnici ubrzo shvatili da će morati sami izgraditi svoj grad. Iako je ideja modernog zelenog gradića nekako preživjela i još uvijek je prisutna u ogromnoj livadi u sredini koja nas podsjeća na, nekoć osvojen, prazni prostor, nije ostalo mnogo originalnog plana.
Dokumentarac prikuplja uspomene prvih stanovnika i graditelja Nove Gorice, koju je 1947. godine osmislio jedan od najznačajnijih modernističkih arhitekata u Jugoslaviji - Edvard Ravnikar. Film govori o podrijetlu i postavlja pitanja o identitetu i viziji grada u vrijeme kada je granica koja je dovela do njezinog stvaranja počela nestajati.
"Gradovi su mjesta razmjene. Ne samo robe nego i sjećanja, priča i želja. Zahvaljujući tim, svi su gradovi različiti i nezamjenjivi“
Hvala svima koji su donirali fotografije: Boris Greiner, Sanja Gršković, Ksenija Kordić, Stanka Mihelić - Polić, Miroslav Prusec, Ivana Visković, Željko Vrbanc,
Anja Medved se bavi dokumentarnim filmom, intermedijalnim projektima kazališnom režijom. Diplomirala je kazališnu i radijsku režiju na Akademiji za kazalište, radio, film i televiziju u Ljubljani. . U svom se radu fokusira na proučavanje odnosa između osobne i kolektivne memorije, napose pograničnog područja.
Program podržalo Ministarstvo kulture RH
english:
“Time Regained – a photo album of the city district of Peščenica” by Slovenian artist Anja Medved is an art and documentary project with which the author thematises the city district as an intersection of architecture, public utilities, and collective and intimate memories. Upon invitation by the author, the residents of the district are bringing their photographs that serve as the base for the exhibition, discussion, and subsequent joint production in the second phase of the project in 2019.
Anja Medved / Time Regained– a photo album of the district of Peščenica
Exhibition, artist talk, and screening of the documentary film “Town in a Meadow” by Anja Medved and Nadja Velušček, produced by Kinoatelje in 2004. “Town in a Meadow” is a documentary film about the town of Nova Gorica in Slovenia, which came into existence in 1947 by political decree following the annexation of the Primorska region to Yugoslavia.
“In the realm of social theories, architecture has long since ceased to be considered an autonomous discipline, and the town a structure exclusively defined by architecture and urban planning. Quite the contrary, contemporary disciplines such as urban anthropology conceptualise the town as process, highlighting the aspects of fluidity, incompletion, variability, and the constitutive role of the individual and the community. [1] Specifically, the town is continuously re-established through the everyday and spatial practices of its inhabitants, thus changing the relationships between semantic, symbolic, economic, political, spatial, and other layers. This continuous re-establishment of the town eludes the dimensions mapped out by material boundaries of architecture on the one hand, and by ideology on the other hand, thus making it a dynamic, heterogenous and incomplete, and therefore also a continuously open structure. This is also the starting point from which visual artist and documentarist Anja Medved approaches the work “Time Regained– a photo album of the district of Peščenica.” By thematising marginal urban space, i.e. the transition of town periphery from the non-structured and rural area to the urban zone, Anja Medved has reached for the residents’ private photographs, thus creating a base for a common archive in which personal views, particular selections, and fragments of different histories will become equivalent segments of common history. The residents have been invited to reconstruct it, to mark own locations and time, and to recognise traces of own memories in those of the others. The recorded fragments of gone-by times reveal former spatial configurations and practises that had formed them. Enlarged to the dimensions that are no longer intimate and no longer fit in pockets, wallets, albums, or shoeboxes – a kind of pre-digital archives – and subsequently displayed in full format on gallery windows, they become a physical sign in space, a clear boundary of unclear relationships. Are these photographs now private or communal? Does the presented stratified space, even when appropriated in different manners, always remain the same? Which and whose history are they building?” (From the foreword by Irena Bekić)
MESTO NA TRAVNIKU / TOWN IN A MEADOW A documentary film about Nova Gorica by Anja Medved and Nadja Velušček written and directed by / ANJA MEDVED and NADJA VELUŠČEK photography by / RADOVAN ČOK music by / ALEKSANDER IPAVEC edited by / ANJA MEDVED, ALEŠ MAVRIČ archive research / MARTINA HUMAR organisation / MILOŠ KUMAR producer / ALEŠ DOKTORIČ production / KINOATELJE and ZAVOD KINOATELJE, 2004 video 65’ Nova Gorica / Gorica, 2004 After the Second World War, when the Primorska region was annexed to Yugoslavía, the town of Gorizia (Gorica in Slovene) remained in Italy, and on Yugoslave side a new Gorica - Nova Gorica had to be build. The idea was to make “something big that will shine over the border”. People started to move in from all over Yugoslavia but after few years this prominent project run out of money. For years Nova Gorica was a half finished skeleton in a meadow by an immensely wide street which led nowhere. The new inhabitants soon realized that they will have to build the town by themselves. Although the idea of the modern green town somehow survived and is still present in a huge meadow in the centre that reminds us of the empty space that the town once occupied, not much of the original plan remained. The documentary collects the memories of first inhabitants and constructors of Nova Gorica, conceived in 1947 by one of the most important modernist architects in Yugoslavia - Edvard Ravnikar. The film tells the story of the origins and asks questions about identity and vision of the town in a time when border, which led to its creation, started to disappear. Statement of authors “Towns are places of exchange. Not only of goods but also of memories, stories and desires. Thanks to these, all towns are different and irreplaceable.
Thanks to: Boris Greiner, Sanja Gršković, Ksenija Kordić, Stanka Mihelić - Polić, Miroslav Prusec, Željko Vrbanc,
Anja Medved is engaged in documentary film, video and intermedia projects. She graduated in Theatre Direction from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Her work focuses on the research of relationships between personal and collective memory, particularly of border areas.