Inappropriate Monuments
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Partners: Grupa arhitekata (GA), Belgrade, Serbia; Social Fringe: Interesting Untold Stories (SF:ius), Zagreb, Croatia; Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Museum of Modern Art / Moderna Galerija (MG-MSUM), Ljubljana, Slovenia
After the dissolution of SFRY an alarming trend of devalorization of the political project of Yugoslavia and revisionism of the events of WWII (namely the partisan struggle and the antifascist front) is visible in all succeeding countries. The ideological showdown against the prior socialist system resulted in the destruction and neglect of partisan monuments with different types of devastation still taking place as a result of the dominant totalitarian narrative concerning SFRY. IM establishes a framework for the continuous collaboration of partner organizations and institutions from successor states that question the destruction, revision and revalorization of partisan monuments. We see these monuments as a product of complex economic and political processes within the construction and dissolution of SFRY. Therefore we understand the meaning communicated by these monuments in relationship with the recent political history inextricably linked to transition processes, in addition to their memorial and aesthetic values. The project aims to CONNECT institutions, experts and independent organizations, STRENGHTEN their capacities and DISTRIBUTE research results in order to ADVOCATE for an integrated transnational policy towards the protection of partisan monuments. For this purpose the following activities will be implemented: research and mapping of monuments, interviews with relevant interlocutors, student workshops, symposia and exhibitions. The central work of the project is the development of a web-portal - an online database about the research results, project activities and partners.
After the dissolution of SFRY an alarming trend of devalorization of the political project of Yugoslavia and revisionism of the events of WWII (namely the partisan struggle and the antifascist front) is visible in all succeeding countries. The ideological showdown against the prior socialist system resulted in the destruction and neglect of partisan monuments with different types of devastation still taking place as a result of the dominant totalitarian narrative concerning SFRY. IM establishes a framework for the continuous collaboration of partner organizations and institutions from successor states that question the destruction, revision and revalorization of partisan monuments. We see these monuments as a product of complex economic and political processes within the construction and dissolution of SFRY. Therefore we understand the meaning communicated by these monuments in relationship with the recent political history inextricably linked to transition processes, in addition to their memorial and aesthetic values. The project aims to CONNECT institutions, experts and independent organizations, STRENGHTEN their capacities and DISTRIBUTE research results in order to ADVOCATE for an integrated transnational policy towards the protection of partisan monuments. For this purpose the following activities will be implemented: research and mapping of monuments, interviews with relevant interlocutors, student workshops, symposia and exhibitions. The central work of the project is the development of a web-portal - an online database about the research results, project activities and partners.