https://klekoweb.cargo.site k.lekoweb Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:36:28 +0000 https://klekoweb.cargo.site en https://klekoweb.cargo.site/Header Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:40:25 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/Header kristina leko https://klekoweb.cargo.site/PUBLIC-SPACE Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:36:28 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/PUBLIC-SPACE 2019 BRING SOME CHAIRS or let’s sit on the ground <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14b5d59607f53e802fdbe650b6efc5c8e74cf2ffc0a28359ac336e70184b20e3/Hansa_01_Perf_021_IMG_2351.JPG" data-mid="204178965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14b5d59607f53e802fdbe650b6efc5c8e74cf2ffc0a28359ac336e70184b20e3/Hansa_01_Perf_021_IMG_2351.JPG" /> SINCE 2014 GRENZE/GRENS DE/NL <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1813c407ee3b59b603620b62af4bc4b73ca4a762356606315acb31a43b00155b/35_2014_EX_Grenze_02-3.jpg" data-mid="204178986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1813c407ee3b59b603620b62af4bc4b73ca4a762356606315acb31a43b00155b/35_2014_EX_Grenze_02-3.jpg" /> 2013 MLADEZ VEDE BRNO REVISITED 1949-2013 <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93be1003a46aebfe88aeec6a9e21e304ab63ab0116cab102e6abbef744b0e6b7/34_2013_EX_004b_DSC2572a.jpg" data-mid="204178960" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93be1003a46aebfe88aeec6a9e21e304ab63ab0116cab102e6abbef744b0e6b7/34_2013_EX_004b_DSC2572a.jpg" /> SINCE 2013 NO MONUMENTS FOR LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2453c01f988f8a841d9def18111ba36bb0d470c2343507730b2d14b0ff6f0148/32_2011-15_Ex_NoMonumentsForLabourImmigration_006-3.jpg" data-mid="204178987" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2453c01f988f8a841d9def18111ba36bb0d470c2343507730b2d14b0ff6f0148/32_2011-15_Ex_NoMonumentsForLabourImmigration_006-3.jpg" /> 2010 KATTENBURG TRIUMPHAL ARCH <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54599298f2a11e27f5a63b1049858b89c3ac44a72ac344f58937b712244d6864/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_006.jpg" data-mid="204178957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54599298f2a11e27f5a63b1049858b89c3ac44a72ac344f58937b712244d6864/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_006.jpg" /> 2010 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; THE BERBERS <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/651b356a379075eae9ab96c12049b27d9e72a6ae4f090d00191bff2e0cf7625d/00_27_2010Ex_02_TheBerbers_003.jpg" data-mid="204178954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/651b356a379075eae9ab96c12049b27d9e72a6ae4f090d00191bff2e0cf7625d/00_27_2010Ex_02_TheBerbers_003.jpg" /> 2010&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; KZN II PUBLIC READING <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f13a1293a351cb38d4a9d19880fc926b4296fcfe6567825243d8cea4dca464b/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_003.jpg" data-mid="204178966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f13a1293a351cb38d4a9d19880fc926b4296fcfe6567825243d8cea4dca464b/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_003.jpg" /> 2008/09 SUPREMATISM ON THE SQUARE! <img width="1538" height="1080" width_o="1538" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f06c4fe75c879cda1ef73107699dbdcab731bfc114e1015e122656510c660324/05_23_2008-09_Ex_SuprematismontheSquare_s_0001-copy.jpg" data-mid="204178985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f06c4fe75c879cda1ef73107699dbdcab731bfc114e1015e122656510c660324/05_23_2008-09_Ex_SuprematismontheSquare_s_0001-copy.jpg" /> 2007 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; MISSING MONUMENTS <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d001678045d3d893a0e113b3d06b6354dd38592389c70bcf169b8a3cf19ccf7/06_21_2007_02_Leko_MM_0002.jpg" data-mid="204178969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d001678045d3d893a0e113b3d06b6354dd38592389c70bcf169b8a3cf19ccf7/06_21_2007_02_Leko_MM_0002.jpg" /> 2006&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MONUMENTS FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE OF VOLKERTVIERTEL <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/118e2ee25dde429f3f51a7d42dba3bd1d57f56f9cbee4db9d6f9e402902b39bf/08_20_2006_Ex_web09_20_2006_MonumentsPeopleVolkertviertel_007.jpg" data-mid="204178971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/118e2ee25dde429f3f51a7d42dba3bd1d57f56f9cbee4db9d6f9e402902b39bf/08_20_2006_Ex_web09_20_2006_MonumentsPeopleVolkertviertel_007.jpg" /> 2004 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; CONSTITUTIONAL OVERHAUL BUREAU <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea6e09cb2ede0a8401025ac90029dea034dec5c2a02da5d023b8de57a67ba797/11_15_2004_Ex_ConstitutionalOverhaulBureau_00.jpg" data-mid="204178972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea6e09cb2ede0a8401025ac90029dea034dec5c2a02da5d023b8de57a67ba797/11_15_2004_Ex_ConstitutionalOverhaulBureau_00.jpg" /> 2002-03&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CHEESE AND CREAM <img width="1396" height="1080" width_o="1396" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5991f8674af707a87f3dbb6525edbafce9bf3bf8b105eb90c3250ac240d03199/001_Leko_Sirivrhnje_hw.jpg" data-mid="204178974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5991f8674af707a87f3dbb6525edbafce9bf3bf8b105eb90c3250ac240d03199/001_Leko_Sirivrhnje_hw.jpg" /> 2001&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SARAJEVO INTERNATIONAL <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf9bcfb17b0f84844bbeb5ee025648236932ce02c9ce0c227ecb545b1c8dd7f2/15_11_2001_Ex_web_006_LekoSarajevolnt_03.jpg" data-mid="204178975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf9bcfb17b0f84844bbeb5ee025648236932ce02c9ce0c227ecb545b1c8dd7f2/15_11_2001_Ex_web_006_LekoSarajevolnt_03.jpg" /> 2001&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MADONNA TO FISH <img width="2366" height="1670" width_o="2366" height_o="1670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/723de1ec75f151f4ac3de5d9159f551a7708a76a5d694a472ef43ee1d72ac842/MADNNA_001.png" data-mid="204178977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/723de1ec75f151f4ac3de5d9159f551a7708a76a5d694a472ef43ee1d72ac842/MADNNA_001.png" /> 1998 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; VEDUTA <img width="2382" height="1488" width_o="2382" height_o="1488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fb94daee373937a44c0b11fb77cc95f32c616427ce7f8c705cba1a117c386c2/VEDUTA_002.png" data-mid="204178978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fb94daee373937a44c0b11fb77cc95f32c616427ce7f8c705cba1a117c386c2/VEDUTA_002.png" /> 1997 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; FLOWERS <img width="2362" height="1572" width_o="2362" height_o="1572" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0fdd8f8d360409c782ccbc0840e8affc4f0377bcb8c27fb5f8f44059eb45115/FLOWERS_003.png" data-mid="204178980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0fdd8f8d360409c782ccbc0840e8affc4f0377bcb8c27fb5f8f44059eb45115/FLOWERS_003.png" /> 1995-1997 &nbsp;&nbsp; VISUALLY BASED PERCEPTION TRAINING <img width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01c339a72e722b1f2bac7ff410d2f346254d00392401e7ec1b8dbbe4aada9379/02_VBPT_sculpture_03.jpg" data-mid="204178982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/01c339a72e722b1f2bac7ff410d2f346254d00392401e7ec1b8dbbe4aada9379/02_VBPT_sculpture_03.jpg" /> 1994&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SPEAKER SYSTEM <img width="3927" height="2510" width_o="3927" height_o="2510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6913984a7fb7ab8571807f0d3f8a022c30181bd64881138bbcfedf703cad2646/SPEAKERSYSTEM_05_HDZ_Izvana_04.jpg" data-mid="204178988" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6913984a7fb7ab8571807f0d3f8a022c30181bd64881138bbcfedf703cad2646/SPEAKERSYSTEM_05_HDZ_Izvana_04.jpg" /> ︎ Homepage Exhibitions ︎ https://klekoweb.cargo.site/BRING-SOME-CHAIRS-Berlin Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:43:04 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/BRING-SOME-CHAIRS-Berlin <img width="2500" height="1057" width_o="2500" height_o="1057" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb8f8abb5974bd7af98db1cd39f3b160557cdd97ce27cdddc1d82fd64bf3d0f3/Hansa_Intervention_003_IMG_0841.jpg" data-mid="100734728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb8f8abb5974bd7af98db1cd39f3b160557cdd97ce27cdddc1d82fd64bf3d0f3/Hansa_Intervention_003_IMG_0841.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1284" width_o="2500" height_o="1284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06f5d459616edaa0aadfe91b381a91a78d22187ca37b63afe64158a06211ed5a/Hansa_Intervention_001_IMG_0655.jpg" data-mid="100734215" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06f5d459616edaa0aadfe91b381a91a78d22187ca37b63afe64158a06211ed5a/Hansa_Intervention_001_IMG_0655.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1c4fc1384dde46f3a809b37e71b920fde65395f83d045f164d3df821ed0f844/Hansa_Intervention_002_IMG_0677.jpg" data-mid="100734710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1c4fc1384dde46f3a809b37e71b920fde65395f83d045f164d3df821ed0f844/Hansa_Intervention_002_IMG_0677.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95a93d61577fc9b0202b51e4e2c2e0e17b56baf39f54cbf75827a5bf297ce125/Hansa_Intervention_004_IMG_0999.jpg" data-mid="100735763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95a93d61577fc9b0202b51e4e2c2e0e17b56baf39f54cbf75827a5bf297ce125/Hansa_Intervention_004_IMG_0999.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dce1e991001cff64207fc934d3f4703c80cabbc0d6a6c5b315d0437a5295c4ea/Hansa_Intervention_005_IMG_1176.jpg" data-mid="100735774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dce1e991001cff64207fc934d3f4703c80cabbc0d6a6c5b315d0437a5295c4ea/Hansa_Intervention_005_IMG_1176.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c9ba18f551592060958cfb171ea2a5c02b763412a1ac926bc07750a0f1c4979/Hansa_Intervention_008_linie_IMG_3159.JPG" data-mid="100736637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c9ba18f551592060958cfb171ea2a5c02b763412a1ac926bc07750a0f1c4979/Hansa_Intervention_008_linie_IMG_3159.JPG" /> <img width="1331" height="2000" width_o="1331" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4448b240c6e506246cef2ededf213f0891cf9b04bad2aa5286428a0e40fc920/Hansa_Intervention_009_IMG_1763_02.jpg" data-mid="100736818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4448b240c6e506246cef2ededf213f0891cf9b04bad2aa5286428a0e40fc920/Hansa_Intervention_009_IMG_1763_02.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f96df13b74892e898f5770a2f72b65279e0242b29dcb6ffefbdcfe35f6891b9/Hansa_Intervention_007_IMG_1165.jpg" data-mid="100736630" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f96df13b74892e898f5770a2f72b65279e0242b29dcb6ffefbdcfe35f6891b9/Hansa_Intervention_007_IMG_1165.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa3c39343e8cc5293e12f8e0bec21630f84d6021d63aa04816e1252a3c0827a2/Hansa_Intervention_006_IMG_1159.jpg" data-mid="100736502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa3c39343e8cc5293e12f8e0bec21630f84d6021d63aa04816e1252a3c0827a2/Hansa_Intervention_006_IMG_1159.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6de240517c6079d590b780210984afffca278776f90592ec5aaab492cf02533/Hansa_Intervention_009_IMG_1764.JPG" data-mid="100736820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6de240517c6079d590b780210984afffca278776f90592ec5aaab492cf02533/Hansa_Intervention_009_IMG_1764.JPG" /> BRING SOME CHAIRS or let’s sit on the ground Hansaviertel, Berlin, 2019 Kristina Leko and David Smithson With the participation of residents of the Hansaviertel With the participation of residents of the Hansaviertel BRING SOME CHAIRS or let's sit on the ground was an artistic intervention in public space on the lawn in front of Niemeyer Haus in the Hansaviertel in Berlin. The intervention itself was meant to function as a temporary meeting place for the neighborhood. At the same time, it was a participatory art project that aimed to create a collective statement, a manifesto on the topic of communal life and living together in the city of tomorrow, written together with residents on site. The process unfolded over three months, but neither a manifesto nor any collectively written text was accomplished. Instead, the project was concluded by a public reading of a dozen of individual statements by residents on September 14, 2019. Read More Why is social togetherness and community important, especially today? The idea of shaping and enhancing community and communal life through architecture was an important idea of post-war modernism. This very idea was central to the reconstruction of the Hansaviertel. Many houses in the Hansaviertel were originally designed with integrated community spaces; today, only a few still exist. On-site surveys, supplemented by cultural anthropological research in the Hansaviertel in 2007, indicate that the idea of community, although failed in parts, is still a very strong point of reference for many residents. Through on-site research, the Niemeyer House offers itself as an ideal example of a well-preserved community space and of a functioning community life. In many other houses, community spaces have been reduced and / or are no longer being used. Intervention in front of the Niemeyer House In order to attract the attention of the residents, we first intervened in the public space. It was an alteration of the ground surface in the open space in front of the Niemeyer House, where we transferred the floor plans of an apartment and of a community room of the Niemeyer House. Our intervention site was the lawn, the green surface which was part publicly and part privately owned. It was a complex and interesting process to get permits for both surfaces. Interestingly, we were allowed to intervene much less in the private area than in the public one. So, on the ground’s surface, we traced the floor plan of an apartment and that of a common area with a 1:1 scale, using marble gravel beds, prefab cement slabs and wooden lath formwork. In the public area we were allowed to make structural interventions into the soil up to 10 cm deep, in the private area we were only allowed to use mesh taping on the surface. The marked outdoor spaces were developed as a neighborhood meeting point: the intervention attracted passers-by and invited visitors. Community Workshop In May through August 2019, a get-together program took place on the lawn in front of the Niemeyer House. In conversations as well as in individual interviews, we questioned the social body and commons: we discussed the good neighborhood practices, the old and new dynamics between owners and tenants, the old residents and the newcomers; the architectural tourists, the drinking homeless, and much more. On about 16 announced weekend gatherings, as well as in spontaneous meetings, we had brief exchanges with more than 100 people on the topic of community. Only a few, one in ten, decided to have a further conversation with us, and to delve into the question of how we can live better together, locally, but also elsewhere in our world of today (Interest in community processes, percentage 10%.) In total, we conducted 14 extensive individual interviews; 11 of them have been authorized and can be read anonymously on the project website. The other 3 interviews cannot be read because they were censored by the interviewees themselves on the one hand and then by me (K.L.) on the other hand, because of their right-wing extremist contents. (Percentage about 21%.) Based on interviews we wanted to write a manifesto together about the good life in the Hansaviertel and for the community living in the city of tomorrow. In the process of creating the manifesto 11 people participated, 6 of them more intensively, but in the end they could not agree on formulations. Thus, instead of a collectively written text, a text collage of individual statements was put together. 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Curatorial team: Elke Falat, artistic director; Judith Laub, head of Urban Culture Department, Bezirksamt Mitte, Berlin Artists/Project by: Kristina Leko, David Smithson. Interviews, Workshops: Kristina Leko, Charlotte Campbell. Intervention: David Smithson. Assistants: Stefan Dietzel, RedwaneJabal, Terril C. Scott, Miguel Azuaga. Commissioned by: Kunst im Stadtraum Berlin. Website: Redwane Jabal Photos: Kristina Leko, David Smithson, Redwane Jabal. GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: temporary intervention in public space; public art project; community art project; project with specific social groups. Artwork/s and artifacts: oral history workshop; texts; sculptural intervention in the ground’s surface.&nbsp;Timeframe: process – 1 years; community work – 4 months; workshops – 8 weeks. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bea2bab4ac9bb4d90ed6123e784902a6a53c89d9220940d2515f4a7c9a382256/35_2014_EX_Grenze_02-8-2.jpg" data-mid="98546295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/0/i/bea2bab4ac9bb4d90ed6123e784902a6a53c89d9220940d2515f4a7c9a382256/35_2014_EX_Grenze_02-8-2.jpg" /> GRENZE/GRENS Suderwick / Dinxperlo, 2014 With the participation of: Werner Brand, Bernd Brennemann, Dien Bruijns, Bertie Bussink, Freek Diersen, Ansgar Drees, Annelies Hegemann, Inge Heidemann, Gerard Hergaarden, Johannes Hoven, Angelika Hoven, Clara Jansen, Hanni and Jan Kranen, Wilhelmina Kastein, Wilhelm Kemink, Hanna Krämer, Gerrie Janne Lammers, Astrid Van Der Linde, Kläre Paffrath, Lydia Rademacher, Theo Rijks, Willemien Rijks, Antonius Van Der Brom, Joop Van Reeken, Verena Winter Van Reeken, Helmut Schlütter,Ursel Schlütter, Dianne Schreur-Lammers, Hildegard Schouwenburg, Friederike Stilkenbäumer, and Heimatverein Suderwick (Village-Initiative), Stichting Bewaar T Olde Dinxperlo, Grens Regional Museum, German-Dutsch Historical Assosiation, Citizens’ Initiative Dinxperlo; Boll House Suderwick - Residential and Care Home of the Evangelical Johanneswerk, Careaz Dr. Jenny Seniors’ Home Dinxperlo. An oral history art project took place along the Dutch-German border in the localities of Suderwick in Germany and Dinxperlo in the Nederlands, which had been historically one of the most conflictual borders of Europe. In cooperation with seniors’ institutions several encounters and interviews were organized. The collected stories recounted local border experiences over the last century and were then edited into collage texts, written down on 9 large panels. These were positioned in public space in a constellation that formed a 9-kilometer parcour through both villages, their surrounding fields and nature. Read More Nine text-panels in public space convey the stories of the residents of Suderwick and Dinxperlo on the subject of borders. As this is an old European border, loaded with the history of severe conflicts, it is an instructive example of how and when social dynamics eventually changed. In order to bring the local audiences to further reflect and contemplate on their divisions and commons, working with several groups and citizens initiatives, we designed the project as an exhibition in public space that could be experienced through both a bicycle tour and a walk. The exhibition addresses the population of both villages as well as visitors (tourists). Each text panel is a text collage in which the voices of several persons, Germans and Dutch, are to be recognized and heard. The texts flow from German to Dutch and back, playing with language alternations, as sometimes what we expect to be a German story has been written in Dutch and v.v. The stories gave an insight into the life around, on and beyond the border nowadays as well as in the past. The focus is on national and confessional/religious divisions and on dealing with the past in relation to these divisions and World War II. Other focal points were rural life, relationships with nature, plants and animals as well as the role of women in the society. The selection of nine locations where the text panels are still displayed (as of 2020) was made in collaboration with the above-mentioned associations and citizen initiatives. In 2016, a mixed citizens' initiative from both German and Dutch sides successfully lobbied for the project to be permanently featured in the curriculum of the local bilingual school. The two local citizens’ associations have taken care to extend the permits. In Suderwick, Germany, and Dinxperlo, Netherlands, the national frontier runs along one edge of the road. At one spot on this road, there are two assisted living and care facilities for the elderly, the chronically ill and the disabled, one on either side. The two institution are connected through a pedestrian overpass, which is home to a tavern with coffee and cake, hovering over the road and thus over the border. On this very site, I was able to conduct extensive interviews with over 20 elderly people. I kept asking the same questions, always about customs and habits that no longer exist. But the answers of my interviewees were always about the border. I met nice, friendly people with long life experiences and talked to them about wartimes, post-war times, about their great-grandparents' times and about the future of their grandchildren. But again, and again they spoke about the border, in one way or another, no matter what questions were asked. In Suderwick / Dinxperlo the border is much more important than any other topic. Stories of the border insist on being told. The border itself is gone today. Officially it does not exist anymore, and yet its absence can be felt. Many still say, however, that there are still too many borders in people's minds. For an outsider, the parallels between the history of Europe in the 17th century and that of the 20th century are clearly and impressively mingled in these two villages. Religious confessions. Wars. War. Locally, I have had the honor of meeting several people who have done long-term cross-border and cross-confessional work with passion, often on an in-house and volunteer basis. Predominantly from the generation that still has every day vivid memories of the Second World War or its effects. So, it could become a life’s mission to teach Dutch in a village school, to give just one example. If a pastor in a place like this says that for Christians there can be no foreigners, it has a different kind of credibility. The exemplary nature of this very region was recognized 40 years ago with the founding of Euregio, the first cross-border local/regional administration. And today we are living in a time when, as Europe, we welcome (or we do not!) African refugees on our borders. With this in mind, perhaps the somewhat outdated border in Dinxperlo / Suderwick could or should be built up and turned into a location for instructive encounter and reflection. With the intention of extending the project in this direction, I transformed the informative discussions I held with project contributors on the site into short texts and statements. Thus, nine text panels were created, displayed at nine locations in Dinxperlo / Suderwick. Nine text panels, nine text collages, invite all those interested to explore the boundaries of the communities, the surrounding landscape, their history and their future, based on the narratives of the inhabitants. Everybody is cordially invited to a content-rich walk or bicycle tour around Dinxperlo and Suderwick. Here are the locations of the project: 001 Raadhuisstraat, at the local church, Dinxperlo, NL 002 Crossroad Kwikkelstraat/Heelweg, Dinxperlo, NL 003 Heelweg, Careaz Dr. Jenny, Dinxperlo, NL * 004 Heelweg, at the Smuggler, Dinxperlo, NL 005 Sporker Straße, at the village square, Suderwick, D 006 at the end of Keupenstraat/Aaltenseweg, at the landmark Keupenbrug/ Keupenbrug, Dinxperlo, NL 007 in between Hagtweg/Emsingweg, bordercrossing Grenzgraben/ grensgraven, Dinxperlo, NL 008 Lange Fohre, “Surkse Backhüs”, Suderwick, D 009 Hahnenpatt 15 A, GrenzBlickAtelier, Suderwick, D <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1b6f637439f1b76fe1356845b2deeb492dc47a0ca4fcaa3c5e9b3b5821be4d2/35_2014_EX_Grenze_99.jpg" data-mid="98562626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1b6f637439f1b76fe1356845b2deeb492dc47a0ca4fcaa3c5e9b3b5821be4d2/35_2014_EX_Grenze_99.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" 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binational citizens’ initiative Dinxperwick When I came to Suderwick for the first time in 1982, the border was still there and customs officers at both ends of the village carried out their checks, especially of cars with foreign license plates. The woman later to be my wife and I came to Suderwick almost every weekend from Bonn (BN) or the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (SU) and had to undergo vigorous customs controls when we drove to Dinxperlo to shop. After 1990, our generation witnessed the border being dismantled and the customs officers transferred to the East German border. From narratives collected in this project, we know that previous generations have had other border experiences. If one takes as examples the time before the First World War or before the French Revolution, one gets a completely different picture, which is reflected in the family stories of the Suderwicker peasant families. At that time the confessional division was far more significant than the national border. In the past two generations, much work has been done to make the external border disappear, but the boundaries in the mind still need to be worked on. We can hope that this art project will contribute to this by encouraging cross-border and intergenerational discussions: what can we do in the next two generations to use the confessional, national and other differences to enhance our lives? In order not to hamper our twin villages on the border, but to enrich and promote them? So this project could contribute in its way to making Dinxperwick a European workshop, if on a small scale. Whether it can then emerge as a beautiful flower as a Euregio or European school in Dinxperwick, that must show the future. Dreams are not only allowed in art ... Commentary by Verena Winter van Reeken &amp; Joop van Reeken, GrenzBlickAtelier, www.grenz-blick.eu The art project GRENZE / GRENS by Kristina Leko is a cross-border venture in many ways, as it not only connects two villages (Suderwick and Dinxperlo) and two countries (Germany and the Netherlands), but also past and present. Memories become readable for the visitor of the text panels and thus experienceable. Out of the static text a dynamic picture is developed in the reader. The past transcends the virtual border of time and moves into the present, where it experiences a new liveliness. The stories of the people living in this moment touch the heart - and thus become a magical means that may be able to conjure away the limits in the minds. Here art has a special closeness and also openness - and it becomes portable. The memories of the narrators turn into the new memories of the readers or art-observers. There is no ending to the memory chain. The GrenzBlickAtelier is pleased that this special cross-border art project will find a home here in Suderwick and Dinxperlo at least for a while. We would like to remind you of the Japanese proverb: "If you raise your eyes, you can see no boundaries". If the observer casts a glance over the texts of the memories, he or she will no longer see the border, because memories mingle with memories. Commentary by Hildegard Schouwenburg, Chair of the Grenslandmuseums Dinxperlo/NL, www.grenslandmuseum.nl The Hellweg or de Heelweg? The Grensland Museum shows the history of the two border communities Suderwick, Germany and Dinxperlo, Netherlands, separated by the Hellweg. Today hardly anyone knows what happened in the course of history. I think it makes sense to confront younger people with this story. In this way, they can incorporate and consider what has happened in the past into their current deliberations and better understand the objections of the older generation. The illustrated panels with the stories of the older generation help the younger generation to understand the story better, leading to improved understanding between young and old. Everyone would have to wonder how a situation such as there is in Suderwick came into being. Suderwick was originally part of the Dutch community of Dinxperlo. After the Reformation and the associated peace of Münster, the border was redrawn. The part called Suderwick today (Zuider wijk, southern settlement) came to Germany. There were difficulties whenever war broke out. During the First World War, Dinxperlo, wanting to be neutral, left the road, which was used by both Germans and Dutch, to the Germans. This road, the Hellweg, is a main motor route from Westphalia to the Rhineland and back again. A barbed wire fence was erected against today's Dutch sidewalk because of the Dutch wish to remain neutral. During World War II, German soldiers erected the fence against today's German sidewalk. The residents of Suderwick had to endure this situation for 10 years. Since this road was very clear, it was possible, if no customs officers were in sight, to crawl through the barbed wire obstruction to visit relatives or to smuggle from the Dutch side what was not available in Germany. If you want to know more border stories from this period, you can do so by visiting the Grenslandmuseum in Dinxperlo. Commentary by Johannes Hoven, Heimatverein Suderwick e.V. www.heimatvereinsuderwick.de To start with, Kristina Leko's art project brings local history to people from Suderwick and Dinxperlo. And visitors who like to come to the curiously running national border are also reminded of the "olde Tieden" (old times). Along the way, you will learn about what is possible in Europe today and what needs to be worked on. Without the border, the two villages of Suderwick and Dinxperlo would be quite insignificant. Any attention paid to harmonious border towns is inevitably linked to the European idea and is an incentive to staying active across borders. Kristina Leko intelligently sorts out simple narratives about life on the border, as the residents there felt. She impressively makes their stories, thoughts and feelings visible and tangible. The project complements the existing monuments, the Grensland Museum and other memorabilia of old, long-forgotten times. This is a great opportunity to engage in a varied and interesting search for the past that is either not or only rarely found in history books. At the same time, one can experience how people live the European idea in harmony next to one another. I hope that many people will start to recall and remember. But they should also meet each other. May many old and young Dutch and Germans get into conversation and get to know each other better. I am convinced that they do not only speak in the past tense. Experiences from history can help the present and above all the future in the house of Europe to enjoy excellent coexistence. A personal note. I notice that many memories and descriptions are similar. They inspired me to wonder if I would have different memories or become a different person if my cradle had been in Dinxperlo instead of Suderwick. Even such thoughts can produce art. May the project induce everyone to feel European. A Commentary by Freek Diersen, Dinxperlo, Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the municipality Silence speaks: From my image and experience of the border to now, there is a world of difference. When I think back to the time when I was 10 years old (1956), I am still thinking of strongly separated countries; separated peoples; separated cultures; separate regulations here in Dinxperlo-Suderwick. All this was visible through two barriers and the piece of no man's land in between. People in uniforms moving around and looking after me like a boy of 10 years, giving an "unheimisch" desire to get away as quickly as possible. My parents could not relieve me of this feeling, because of the necessity of visits to a health practitioner (and there were a lot of good ones on the German side). What kind of an obstacle was the border then?! Not for smugglers? How different the experience is now, what a good feeling it is the tangible physical obstacles are no longer there. That precisely cross-border encounters are based on understanding, distancing, on the added value of, for, and among people. To build bridges and to become "European". In my encounters with citizens on both sides of the border, I get the idea of a shared sense of experience. Of what it was, it is, and what is still to come. The memory, the meeting does one good and provides an impetus for an even better experience. That is heart-warming and makes you stop for a moment to let it get through to you. It is also beautiful that artists are also being constantly inspired by secretive nature of the border. In their "visual way" they stop for a moment to let this speak for us. The Van-Mens-tot-Mens bridge is also a good example of this, but several other silent witnesses also speak this "European language" here on the border in Dinxperwick (fd.). The very different art project of Kristina Leko with text art panels in the village and landscape is another valuable contribution and clearly has its "Grenswerte" (border related values). Let text, images and feelings arise from what a border had and still has ... and then gradually learn: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a secret, today is a gift! A good experience! CREDITS The Grenze/Grens project was commissioned by the program GrensWerte of Euregio (www.euregio.eu).Project artistic team: Kristina Leko, workshops, community work; David Smithson, panels and installation.Cooperation partners for community encounters: Boll House Suderwick - Residential and Care Home of the Evangelical Johanneswerk, Careaz Dr. Jenny Seniors’ Home Dinxperlo. Project production and logistics: Heimatverein Suderwick (Village-Initiative), Stichting Bewaar T Olde Dinxperlo, Grens Regional Museum, German-Dutsch Historical Assosiation, Citizens’ Initiative Dinxperlo. The additional support: City of Bocholt. GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: permanent intervention in public space; public art project; community art project; oral history; participatory-documentary art project; project with specific social groups. Artwork/s and artifacts: oral history workshops; texts; text-panels installed in public space – parcour. Timeframe: process – 6 months; workshops &amp; community meetings – 6 weeks. 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The woman later to be my wife and I came to Suderwick almost every weekend from Bonn (BN) or the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (SU) and had to undergo vigorous customs controls when we drove to Dinxperlo to shop. After 1990, our generation witnessed the border being dismantled and the customs officers transferred to the East German border. From narratives collected in this project, we know that previous generations have had other border experiences. If one takes as examples the time before the First World War or before the French Revolution, one gets a completely different picture, which is reflected in the family stories of the Suderwicker peasant families. At that time the confessional division was far more significant than the national border. In the past two generations, much work has been done to make the external border disappear, but the boundaries in the mind still need to be worked on. We can hope that this art project will contribute to this by encouraging cross-border and intergenerational discussions: what can we do in the next two generations to use the confessional, national and other differences to enhance our lives? In order not to hamper our twin villages on the border, but to enrich and promote them? So this project could contribute in its way to making Dinxperwick a European workshop, if on a small scale. Whether it can then emerge as a beautiful flower as a Euregio or European school in Dinxperwick, that must show the future. Dreams are not only allowed in art ... Commentary by Verena Winter van Reeken &amp; Joop van Reeken, GrenzBlickAtelier, www.grenz-blick.eu The art project GRENZE / GRENS by Kristina Leko is a cross-border venture in many&nbsp;ways, as it not only connects two villages (Suderwick and Dinxperlo) and two countries (Germany and the Netherlands), but also past and present. Memories become readable for the visitor of the text panels and thus experienceable. Out of the static text a dynamic picture is developed in the reader. The past transcends the virtual border of time and moves into the present, where it experiences a new liveliness. The stories of the people living in this moment touch the heart - and thus become a magical means that may be able to conjure away the limits in the minds. Here art has a special closeness and also openness - and it becomes portable. The memories of the narrators turn into the new memories of the readers or art-observers. There is no ending to the memory chain. The GrenzBlickAtelier is pleased that this special cross-border art project will find a home here in Suderwick and Dinxperlo at least for a while. We would like to remind you of the Japanese proverb: "If you raise your eyes, you can see no boundaries". If the observer casts a glance over the texts of the memories, he or she will no longer see the border, because memories mingle with memories. Commentary by Hildegard Schouwenburg, Chair of the Grenslandmuseums Dinxperlo/NL, www.grenslandmuseum.nl The Hellweg or de Heelweg? The Grensland Museum shows the history of the two border communities Suderwick, Germany and Dinxperlo, Netherlands, separated by the Hellweg. Today hardly anyone knows what happened in the course of history. I think it makes sense to confront younger people with this story. In this way, they can incorporate and consider what has happened in the past into their current deliberations and better understand the objections of the older generation. The illustrated panels with the stories of the older generation help the younger generation to understand the story better, leading to improved understanding between young and old. Everyone would have to wonder how a situation such as there is in Suderwick came into being. Suderwick was originally part of the Dutch community of Dinxperlo. After the Reformation and the associated peace of Münster, the border was redrawn. The part called Suderwick today (Zuider wijk, southern settlement) came to Germany. There were difficulties whenever war broke out. During the First World War, Dinxperlo, wanting to be neutral, left the road, which was used by both Germans and Dutch, to the Germans. This road, the Hellweg, is a main motor route from Westphalia to the Rhineland and back again. A barbed wire fence was erected against today's Dutch sidewalk because of the Dutch wish to remain neutral. During World War II, German soldiers erected the fence against today's German sidewalk. The residents of Suderwick had to endure this situation for 10 years. Since this road was very clear, it was possible, if no customs officers were in sight, to crawl through the barbed wire obstruction to visit relatives or to smuggle from the Dutch side what was not available in Germany. If you want to know more border stories from this period, you can do so by visiting the Grenslandmuseum in Dinxperlo.Commentary by Johannes Hoven, Heimatverein Suderwick e.V.&nbsp;www.heimatvereinsuderwick.deTo start with, Kristina Leko's art project brings local history to people from Suderwick and Dinxperlo. And visitors who like to come to the curiously running national border are also reminded of the "olde Tieden" (old times). Along the way, you will learn about what is possible in Europe today and what needs to be worked on. Without the border, the two villages of Suderwick and Dinxperlo would be quite insignificant. Any attention paid to harmonious border towns is inevitably linked to the European idea and is an incentive to staying active across borders. Kristina Leko intelligently sorts out simple narratives about life on the border, as the residents there felt. She impressively makes their stories, thoughts and feelings visible and tangible. The project complements the existing monuments, the Grensland Museum and other memorabilia of old, long-forgotten times. This is a great opportunity to engage in a varied and interesting search for the past that is either not or only rarely found in history books. At the same time, one can experience how people live the European idea in harmony next to one another. I hope that many people will start to recall and remember. But they should also meet each other. May many old and young Dutch and Germans get into conversation and get to know each other better. I am convinced that they do not only speak in the past tense. Experiences from history can help the present and above all the future in the house of Europe to enjoy excellent coexistence. A personal note. I notice that many memories and descriptions are similar. They inspired me to wonder if I would have different memories or become a different person if my cradle had been in Dinxperlo instead of Suderwick. Even such thoughts can produce art. May the project induce everyone to feel European. A Commentary by Freek Diersen, Dinxperlo, Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the municipalitySilence speaks: From my image and experience of the border to now, there is a world of difference. When I think back to the time when I was 10 years old (1956), I am still thinking of strongly separated countries; separated peoples; separated cultures; separate regulations here in Dinxperlo-Suderwick. All this was visible through two barriers and the piece of no man's land in between. People in uniforms moving around and looking after me like a boy of 10 years, giving an "unheimisch" desire to get away as quickly as possible. My parents could not relieve me of this feeling, because of the necessity of visits to a health practitioner (and there were a lot of good ones on the German side). What kind of an obstacle was the border then?! Not for smugglers? How different the experience is now, what a good feeling it is the tangible physical obstacles are no longer there. That precisely cross-border encounters are based on understanding, distancing, on the added value of, for, and among people. To build bridges and to become "European". In my encounters with citizens on both sides of the border, I get the idea of a shared sense of experience. Of what it was, it is, and what is still to come. The memory, the meeting does one good and provides an impetus for an even better experience. That is heart-warming and makes you stop for a moment to let it get through to you. It is also beautiful that artists are also being constantly inspired by secretive nature of the border. In their "visual way" they stop for a moment to let this speak for us. The Van-Mens-tot-Mens bridge is also a good example of this, but several other silent witnesses also speak this "European language" here on the border in Dinxperwick (fd.). The very different art project of Kristina Leko with text art panels in the village and landscape is another valuable contribution and clearly has its "Grenswerte" (border related values). Let text, images and feelings arise from what a border had and still has ... and then gradually learn: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a secret, today is a gift! A good experience! https://klekoweb.cargo.site/MLADEZ-Brno Sun, 14 Feb 2021 09:10:57 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/MLADEZ-Brno <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f7e045651193f9092ec07a52cfbd7ea53ab610ea3fac41ad54bfe8bc5510c5d/34_2013_EX_004_DSC2543a.jpg" data-mid="98812363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f7e045651193f9092ec07a52cfbd7ea53ab610ea3fac41ad54bfe8bc5510c5d/34_2013_EX_004_DSC2543a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7c7a015f812ad623af345a269aba3ea7462e0df86a032dec418a96ea52bc331/34_2013_EX_004b_DSC2572a.jpg" data-mid="98812365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7c7a015f812ad623af345a269aba3ea7462e0df86a032dec418a96ea52bc331/34_2013_EX_004b_DSC2572a.jpg" /> <img width="1397" height="899" width_o="1397" height_o="899" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6edf20498ca198d5c5897e096bca6c87ac2e802fecbb0f9b5d02299f05a33ff5/34_2013_EX_001_MladezvedeBrno_groupdouble_hw.jpg" data-mid="98812360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6edf20498ca198d5c5897e096bca6c87ac2e802fecbb0f9b5d02299f05a33ff5/34_2013_EX_001_MladezvedeBrno_groupdouble_hw.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4676cf5f9ec28126720d070abd557f44c7f3665f67dc9ea71e485fede5abe597/34_2013_EX_004a_DSC2565a.jpg" data-mid="98812386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4676cf5f9ec28126720d070abd557f44c7f3665f67dc9ea71e485fede5abe597/34_2013_EX_004a_DSC2565a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16c94fd953842949ee1ca35cdffc153eaa8d564d82440fca413a0c82a77f9482/34_2013_EX_004c_DSC2578a.jpg" data-mid="98812392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16c94fd953842949ee1ca35cdffc153eaa8d564d82440fca413a0c82a77f9482/34_2013_EX_004c_DSC2578a.jpg" /> YOUTH GOVERNS BRNO REVISITED 1948-2013 / MLÁDEŽ VEDE BRNO REVISITED 1948-2013 Brno Art Open 2013 Featuring: Bára Bakošová, Martina Jetmarová, Lukáš Likavčan, Josef Patočka, Margita Rácová, and Tereza Vávrová. A project with/about young community activists of Brno at the point in time 2013 with the objective of reflecting critically upon the historical event “Mládež vede Brno” from 1949, during which the youth took over all the essential functions in the city for the period of three days. It was an event-format that later on spread throughout the country securing the political power of the communist party. Our project was to reenact that historical event in a small scale. However, it was partially censored by the municipal authorities while being accused of spreading communist ideology. The intervention was banned from the city center. Read More For three days in May 1949 almost 20,000 young people took part in the event “Mládež vede Brno” organized by the newly established communist authorities. Young people took over the production, services and administration in 82 companies in the city of Brno. The objective of the event was to gain the sympathy of the youngsters but also of the general population for the new regime. The event was considered a pure success, was subsequently organized in other cities, and helped secure the rule of the communist regime. The organizer of the event, Otto Sling, the mayor, a highly positioned communist, was sentenced to death later, in the intern power-struggles in 1952 but rehabilitated by the regime in 1963. The objective of our project MLÁDEŽ vede Brno REVISITED 1948-2013 was to reflect critically upon that historical event. Additionally, we wanted to see what was in the minds of young community activists today. We wanted to give them a chance to be placed in the companies or institutions of their interest, and see what they might come up with. Our project featured six young activists interested in public education, ecology, social housing, problems of the Roma minority, and charity projects. Our project attracted special attention from the city commission responsible for the Brno Art Open 2013 exhibition. Several members of the city commission wanted to cancel our project, labeling it as a communist propaganda. At two special meetings, at which the artist, Kristina Leko, the project curator, Michal Koleček, as well as the director of Arthouse Brno, Terezie Petišková, argued for freedom of speech and expression, the project was accepted on condition some alterations were made. However, the project did not get support from the city administration, which failed to organize the two placements in the city administration offices that we had expected. Thus, one of the important issues that we discussed within the project was the issue of the younger generation being given trust and the right to freely reflect on the historical heritage. Through the course of our project the generation gap started to be revealed, as was the significant trauma of the communist regime. On the other hand, the placements of our project participants in several private companies showed how different the current Czech civil society was in comparison to 1949. Paradoxically, the private sector showed much more social responsibility than the city administration, by being more open to hosting our participants, community activists, and learning about their ideas. Within the project we documented the placements online on our blog, i.e. on six different blogs, we met and discussed the placements within the team on a regular basis, we organized meetings and discussions in order to resist the pressure from the city administration. Finally, a get-together with a larger group of young activists was organized in the House of Arts Brno, where in an extensive discussion the project’s flow and the resistance to it were reflected. On that occasion the participants voted on the most appropriate slogan to be put up in public space to conclude and document the project. The winner was LOKALNI JE GLOBALNI – local is global. In the final action of the project, we placed our graffiti in the public space. It is probably needless to mention that the city administration did not allot us a central but a rather remote location for our intervention, far away from the city center and any attention. At the time, they did not even know which slogan we were about to paint on the allotted wall. mladezvedebrno.tumblr.com <img width="1476" height="607" width_o="1476" height_o="607" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5861a81cd9d5c849ec019349f890dd060a219299e4fb29f15f80eb8c413bec45/34_2013_EX_001_MladezvedeBrno_groupdouble_new_hw.jpg" data-mid="98812361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5861a81cd9d5c849ec019349f890dd060a219299e4fb29f15f80eb8c413bec45/34_2013_EX_001_MladezvedeBrno_groupdouble_new_hw.jpg" /> <img width="1464" height="1080" width_o="1464" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afbb6e06d78c9b0761beb1a5c52eb13422664185a55a567c282cb527d41eed93/34_2013_EX_002_Screen-Shot-2013-11-09-at-7.03.34-PMa.jpg" data-mid="100769630" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afbb6e06d78c9b0761beb1a5c52eb13422664185a55a567c282cb527d41eed93/34_2013_EX_002_Screen-Shot-2013-11-09-at-7.03.34-PMa.jpg" /> <img width="1535" height="1080" width_o="1535" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0291162f3191edfd6cc2c1893589126ad9903f44d4e10721d58db94fedc7f7c0/34_2013_EX_003_Screen-Shot-2013-11-10-at-8.05.44-PMb.jpg" data-mid="100769631" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0291162f3191edfd6cc2c1893589126ad9903f44d4e10721d58db94fedc7f7c0/34_2013_EX_003_Screen-Shot-2013-11-10-at-8.05.44-PMb.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ab2a8701c26afd42505e499c023ac59c11d1100ffdcdc8c32ade5d66613218d/34_2013_EX_007_IMG_2162a.jpg" data-mid="98812369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ab2a8701c26afd42505e499c023ac59c11d1100ffdcdc8c32ade5d66613218d/34_2013_EX_007_IMG_2162a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c7c2040d35302d99b0e75a507d112599f29854ee8deffcfa324b736d1ace0de/34_2013_EX_006_DSC2826a.jpg" data-mid="98812388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c7c2040d35302d99b0e75a507d112599f29854ee8deffcfa324b736d1ace0de/34_2013_EX_006_DSC2826a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60a3c9416bee664945687b3edcac953286f82b1e9a49a316de3c0b47731179e3/34_2013_EX_007b_DSC2842a.jpg" data-mid="98812389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60a3c9416bee664945687b3edcac953286f82b1e9a49a316de3c0b47731179e3/34_2013_EX_007b_DSC2842a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d5e165e0713ec9eac4a236684c101c38aec7660ed4521f19eb2a3db87b094eb/34_2013_EX_005_DSC2493a.jpg" data-mid="98812391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d5e165e0713ec9eac4a236684c101c38aec7660ed4521f19eb2a3db87b094eb/34_2013_EX_005_DSC2493a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1aac3d299e65d590edf63882bb80b36ef8e0a09f476103550ef93e209d6c986/34_2013_EX_008_DSC2851a.jpg" data-mid="98812431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1aac3d299e65d590edf63882bb80b36ef8e0a09f476103550ef93e209d6c986/34_2013_EX_008_DSC2851a.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aee1f5e1b8b1c80bc37a33b52037b52671402fddc8410baf1ab32f2fa517992a/34_2013_EX_009_IMG_2193a.jpg" data-mid="98812432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aee1f5e1b8b1c80bc37a33b52037b52671402fddc8410baf1ab32f2fa517992a/34_2013_EX_009_IMG_2193a.jpg" /> RELATED&nbsp; Brno Art Open @ Brno Art House https://mladezvedebrno.tumblr.com/ Katalog BAO – Exceprt Story about the event of 1948 by KateřinaTučková CREDITS&nbsp; MLÁDEŽ vede Brno REVISITED 1948-2013 was commissioned by Brno Art Open 2013: On the Edge of Story in Brno, Czech Republic. Curatoror: Michal Koleček. Director, Brno Art House: Terezie Petišková.&nbsp;Artists: Kristina Leko. Collaborating activists: Bára Bakošová, Martina Jetmarová, Lukáš Likavčan, Josef Patočka, Margita Rácová, and Tereza Vávrová. project team Brno Art House: Petr Maška, producer, Alzbeta Medlova &amp; Lucie Harapátová, documentary videos. Video statements: Kristina Leko. Web: Željko Blaće. Advising: David Smithson. Photos: Kristina Leko, historical archive. GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: community art project; participatory-documentary art project; project with specific social groups; interventions in social and public space, social plastic. Artwork/s and artifacts: workshops; encounters and social organiying; texts; blog publication; graffiti intervention in public space.&nbsp;Timeframe: process – 8 moths; community work – 3 months; workshops – 6 weeks. Number and profile of participants: 5 + 20 participants, young peple in their 20s. <img width="1397" height="899" width_o="1397" height_o="899" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6edf20498ca198d5c5897e096bca6c87ac2e802fecbb0f9b5d02299f05a33ff5/34_2013_EX_001_MladezvedeBrno_groupdouble_hw.jpg" data-mid="98812360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6edf20498ca198d5c5897e096bca6c87ac2e802fecbb0f9b5d02299f05a33ff5/34_2013_EX_001_MladezvedeBrno_groupdouble_hw.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f7e045651193f9092ec07a52cfbd7ea53ab610ea3fac41ad54bfe8bc5510c5d/34_2013_EX_004_DSC2543a.jpg" data-mid="98812363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f7e045651193f9092ec07a52cfbd7ea53ab610ea3fac41ad54bfe8bc5510c5d/34_2013_EX_004_DSC2543a.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" 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Kucek, Kristina Leko NO MONUMENTS FOR LABOR AND IMMIGRATION GRAZ, ROTOR &amp; INSTITUTE ART IN PUBLIC SPACE STYRIA, SINCE 2011/2013 (RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION 2011-2013) In collaboration with: Joachim Hainzl, Leo Kühberger, Judith Laister, and with the participation of students of European Ethnology and the residents of the Annenviertel neighborhood: Yemi Adesuyi Ojumo, Evelyn Ark, Ayten G., Yakut Benan, Martin Breuss, Bianca Flecker, Tanja Fuchs, Peter Lukas, Oktavian Gillmayr, Claudia Gross, Michael&nbsp; Jabbour, Pinar K., Robin Paul Klengel, Emir Kuljuh, Ali Kurt, Claudia Leitinger, Mao Liyi, Katja Fischer, Aline Marques, Elisabeth Matlschweiger, Fatima Maria N., Anna Orgler, Piso O., Stefan Postl, Kurt Pöschl, Andrea Pöschl, Kennedy P.,&nbsp; Angela Prassl, Hildegard Ruhdorfer, Barbara Schmid, Mustafa Seyhan, Kadir Smailović, Heide Spitzer, Nora Kim Steinbach, Kristina Stocker, Daniela Stradner, Kurosch U.,Karoline Walter, Katrin Wankhammer, Michael Windisch. NO MONUMENTS FOR LABOR AND IMMIGRATION was a multifaceted interdisciplinary artistic and research project based in the Annenviertel neighborhood of Graz in the period 2011-2013. It focused on the spatial overlapping of the local labor history with the history of migrations. A collaborative-participatory field and historical research on sites related to the labor movement, encounters and social gatherings on those sites, and a production of related texts, all culminated in a series of eight text-based interventions in public space. Several institutions and over forty individuals contributed to the project, inaugurated on May 1st, 2013 by the means of an alternative May Day rally. The project is still on view in public space (January 2021). Read More NO MONUMENTS … was initiated in 2010 by artist Kristina Leko as a further development of her “Missing Monuments” project commissioned by the Institute Art in Public Space Styria in 2006, with the wish to tackle the obvious underrepresentation of migrant and working-class perspectives in the local public discourse. Located in the Annenviertel neighborhood, the Rotor Center for Contemporary Art was the institutional carrier and promotor or the project as well as a venue for diverse project activities. Although conceived and realized as a temporary 2-year intervention, six out of eight project locations are still in function while one of them has been included in a mainstream tourist city tour for several years. Based on the interest of different parties (schools, citizens’ groups, organizations) Rotor Center files renewal for project permit every 2 years; Rotor also offers guided tours on the project sites. In 2011 two historians, Dr. Leo Kühberger and Joachim Heinzel, were commissioned to carry out a historical research in Annenviertel, a working class vibrant migrant area of Graz, and to research and describe 18 locations of particular relevance to the labor movement history as well as to the history of migrations. One example is the Pastergasse, a street where a community of Italian migrants (construction workers) dwelled in the 16th century, while to be found on the spot today is a city-owned social housing project mostly populated by people with migrant background. Another example is the Idlhofgasse 36, which was the headquarters of the first anarchist organization in Styria back in the 1920s. The very same rooms have been home to the Kurdistan Information Centre since 2003. On a weekend in October 2011 this historical research was presented in the form of a two-day sightseeing walk to a group of students of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology, Karl Franzens University in Graz. The event was part of the seminar “No History – No Monuments, visual ethnography and representational critique in art and cultural anthropology”, a collaborative university seminar by cultural anthropologist Dr. Judith Laister and artist Kristina Leko. Whereas Laister gave theoretical input, Leko undertook field research with students, and mediated her knowledge and skills related to biographical field research. (Since 1999 Leko has been artistically involved in biographical research in different social contexts.) Conversely, the research done within the seminar was transformed into an artistic project in public space. Working in small groups and individually, the students researched and edited the biographies of people with migrant backgrounds who live or work at the historical sites mentioned above. One of the goals of the seminar “No History – No Monuments” was to produce encounters and exchanges between the students and the residents of the neighborhood. The other goal was to empower the project participants, migrant residents, by involving them in a cultural project with considerable visibility in public space. Nineteen students took part in the project, and over twenty biographical texts were written. In the next phase, a choice of historical and biographical texts created in the project was made. These texts were then shortened and transformed into text-based artworks. Each text was created through the participation and involvement of several individuals, where all the involved parties edited the text: individual field researchers, sometimes several researchers for one biography, their interview partners - people whose biographies were the subject of interest and research, several members of project team, historians involved in the project. The final result of the project NO MONUMENTS FOR LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION counted eight interventions in public space. At each location, two text panels designed as school blackboards appear applied on the building facades. At each location, one text tells a story from the history of the Austrian labor movement while the other narrates biographies of the migrant citizens related to the location. The audience is invited to correlate the two texts, the two panels. The project as a whole is a statement about relationship of migration/s to the labor movement and its history. The opening of the project took the form of a guided tour and a performative May Day rally, a happening with megaphones and banners, on May 1st, 2013. The members of the audience took part by reading laud selected text-passages at different sites during the tour. Over 200 people participated. Conceptualized to be a socially and politically functional artwork, this project had a mediation program brought along the interventions in public space. In the period 2013 until 2015 the Rotor Centre for Contemporary Art offered regular guided tours through the project and the neighborhood in order to spread knowledge about the local history of labor and migration, and to promote the main thought of the project, that migration indeed has always been part of the Austrian labor history. 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Initial idea, artist: Kristina Leko. Curated and produced by Rotor: Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer.Production team by Rotor: Doris Psenicnik, Christina Lessiak, Anna Kamyshan, Wolfgang Oeggl Scientific researcher for cultural anthropology: Dr. Judith Laister. Historical research: Joachim Hainzl, Leo Kühberger Field research, students of European Ethnology and the residents of the Annenviertel neighborhood: Yemi Adesuyi Ojumo, Evelyn Ark, Ayten G., Yakut Benan, Martin Breuss, Bianca Flecker, Tanja Fuchs, Peter Lukas, Oktavian Gillmayr, Claudia Gross, Michael Jabbour, Pinar K., Robin Paul Klengel, Emir Kuljuh, Ali Kurt, Claudia Leitinger, Mao Liyi, Katja Fischer, Aline Marques, Elisabeth Matlschweiger, Fatima Maria N., Anna Orgler, Piso O., Stefan Postl, Kurt Pöschl, Andrea Pöschl, Kennedy P., Angela Prassl, Hildegard Ruhdorfer, Barbara Schmid, Mustafa Seyhan, Kadir Smailović, Heide Spitzer, Nora Kim Steinbach, Kristina Stocker, Daniela Stradner, Kurosch U., Karoline Walter, Katrin Wankhammer, Michael Windisch. Cooperation partners: Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark, Stadtbaudirektion - Stadtteilmanagement Annenviertel, Institut für Volkskunde und Kulturanthropologie der Universität Graz, Kurdistan Informationszentrum. Additional support: Steirische Gesellschaft für Kulturpolitik; RONDO - KünstlerInnenateliers des Landes Steiermark; Ministry of Culture, Republic of Croatia; Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Zagreb. Photo credits: J.J. Kucek (May Day Happening), Kristina Leko (intervention sites). GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: research; intervention in public space; public art project; community art project; oral history; participatory-documentary art project; project with specific social groups; social plastic. Artwork/s and artifacts: city tours; field-research workshops; encounters; university seminar; exhibition; texts; text-panels installed in public space – parcour. Timeframe: process; student seminar/social sculpture: 2,5 years; intervention in public space: since 2013. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a988f078d7709448c05fd98ffac6dbd741ea17fed35a970e5b539c0053af295/32_2011-15_Ex_NoMonumentsForLabourImmigration_014-2.jpg" data-mid="100768452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/0/i/5a988f078d7709448c05fd98ffac6dbd741ea17fed35a970e5b539c0053af295/32_2011-15_Ex_NoMonumentsForLabourImmigration_014-2.jpg" /> &nbsp; Next Project ︎ https://klekoweb.cargo.site/KATTENBURG-A-dam Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:18:04 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/KATTENBURG-A-dam <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/936d02f73c673674b352b71eef59f9a4f6a05432a88dad086a435a2a5f678b2b/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_001.jpg" data-mid="86544771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/936d02f73c673674b352b71eef59f9a4f6a05432a88dad086a435a2a5f678b2b/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_001.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80ce849e93c49a7dcafc5623eeadc452eb5037b2267a11d758f48a22499c1826/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_007.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fef8362a1064a4c24134863f375d84c665dabdadf6c16fd741a7092c0b8d5ac/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_006.jpg" data-mid="86544775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fef8362a1064a4c24134863f375d84c665dabdadf6c16fd741a7092c0b8d5ac/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_006.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa39cf7c6e687450804cd98d13c4f9ba64bea8f30ddbc3598934a2de14d611d2/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_010.jpg" data-mid="86544779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa39cf7c6e687450804cd98d13c4f9ba64bea8f30ddbc3598934a2de14d611d2/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_010.jpg" /> <img width="1529" height="1080" width_o="1529" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd26f03b371ccd5b0e5fcf884766d77d65b058e2febad1d60ee92da44691ff8a/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_007.jpg" data-mid="96943009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd26f03b371ccd5b0e5fcf884766d77d65b058e2febad1d60ee92da44691ff8a/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_007.jpg" /> KATTENBURGER TRIUMPHAL ARCH / TRIOMFBOOG VAN KATTENBURG Island of Kattenburg, Amsterdam, 2007/2010 Kristina Leko and David Smithson With the participation of: Jaap Altelaar, Ada Bergh, Kitty Bergh, Joop Bos, Judith Bos, Rietje Clerx Altelaar, Annie de Jel, Anita de Rouw, Saskia Moerbeek,&nbsp; Ans Haenen van Markestijn, Dick Hemrika, Theo in ‘t Ven, Lenie Kriegelstein Starreveld,&nbsp; Olga Meijer, Dick Pronk, Anneke Tuiteman, Willem Tuiteman, Dinie van Beek, Brenda van der Horst, Nel van der Zee, Elly van Mourik, Leon van Mourik, Kima van Oorschot, Joke Vuur, Rietje Werts Haenen, Cor Werts, and Wiseguys Urban Art Projects. A community memorial documenting the 20th century history of a working-class neighborhood in the center of Amsterdam: cold war, labor struggles, anti-gentrification struggle, low-rents movement. The project was realized in collaboration with the Kattenburger residents,&nbsp;who told and hand wrote the history of their island of the last 60 years. Originally, in its first design, the Kattenburger Triumphal Arch was approved as a monumental free-standing arch. Based on a complaint for its political contents from the side of a conservative highly positioned politician, the project was censored, the approval and the allocated funds withdrawn. However, the community members engaged in the project’s writing workshop found their way to put this community memorial in place as a permanent intervention applied on the existing architecture. Read More This project evolves around the idea to create a community memorial honoring the living residents of Kattenburg Island in Amsterdam along their social and community engagement for which they had a long reputation. The project was produced in close collaboration with the local community. That way, the intervention in public and social space, the creation and placing of the community memorial was to a good extend carried out by the very same individuals to whom it has been dedicated. The memorial features stories written by the community members, their personal histories and memories of important developments in the neighborhood reaching back to 1940s. Kattenburg Island is a well-organized working-class community in the heart of Amsterdam in which several generations of large and well-known families have been living for well over two centuries. The Kattenburgers are regarded as very special people and are known for their independent spirit and social activism. Kattenburg’s more recent history is marked by social and community initiatives that include the working-class community fighting to remain living on the island after its complete reconstruction in the 1960s, an initiative that grew into a movement to lower rents in the 1970s, and a famous fight to uproot criminal activities in the neighborhood. Trade union activism on the island was also historically important, and some important figures in the history of the Dutch labor movement were from Kattenburg. The memorial documents the social engagement of chosen individuals as well as the social activities and collective initiatives by the citizens of Kattenburg throughout the last part of the 20th century. It honors the people and the ideas related to these initiatives. Initial contacts with Kattenburg residents in 2007 mediated through the local communal cultural center were successful, and the idea of setting up a community memorial dedicated to the social initiatives and their activists generated enthusiastic feedback. That said, the focal point of the project was the creative and active involvement of individual citizens in shaping of their everyday environment. In April and May 2008, a 5-week long project workshop took place in the neighborhood. A leaflet was placed in every mailbox on the island inviting Kattenburgers to write out their own history. Twenty-five individuals took part in the project. Some came with the texts already written, some wrote their texts during the workshop, while others dictated their stories and thoughts. All the texts were proofread, and then the authors handwrote their texts in ink or pencil on paper. The handwritten texts were then applied to ceramic tiles covering 6 columns (12 surfaces) of an enclosed passage in the most prominent part of the neighborhood. Most of our participants were in their sixties and seventies and were quite active in the activities related to the lower-rent movement and other communal actions in the 1970s, 1980s and to some extent the 1990s. The collection of texts comprises stories and reports about different events and actions, memories of certain periods of time (pre-war, war, post-war, childhood, the island before the renovation, moving back to Kattenburg after the reconstruction and so on), and portraits of individuals (stories about mothers, fathers, community activist Marie Altelaar and union activist Jaap Altelaar). While most of the texts and stories relate to the lower-rent movement, other important communal actions were also recorded and described as well. Participants also noted their thoughts about social and political activism and community living, philosophical views about society and community, family and friendship, and solidarity and social justice. However, the most dramatic part of the project was its cancellation, and everything that followed, which all brought the project to another level. The original proposal for the Kattenburger Triumphal Arch was namely a site-specific freestanding arch, monumental in its dimensions, which previously received all necessary approvals from the city authorities. However, days after being approved, project was suddenly cancelled, based on a politician’s veto, which was not really transparently communicated from the side of the authorities. It took some time before the community organized itself and started lobbying for the project. In the process that took almost two years, several engaged project’s participants, together with the curatorial team, managed to find funds and way to put the project in place after all, boosting their community activist spirit, which was the very reason to start the project in the first place. More about this process can be read in the evaluation written by Leon Tan on the website of the Institute for Public Art. (see link below) RELATED Wikipedia NL &nbsp;Kunstwacht&nbsp; DeKey &nbsp;WiseGuys&nbsp; &nbsp;Institute for Public Art CREDITS Kattenburger Triumphal Arch was commissioned by Stadsdeel Amsterdam Centrum and Woonstichting de Key in 2007 and it was inaugurated in Dezember 2010. Adress: Kattenburgerstraat 150, 1018 Amsterdam, Nederland. Curatorial team: WISEGUYS urban art projects; Marco Cops, Jerome Symons. Artists: Kristina Leko, David Smithson. Writing workshops: Kristina Leko, Jori Symons, Birke Hesse. Cooperation partner for community work: Wijkcentrum Oostelijke Binnenstad Amsterdam. Participants writing workshops/texts written by: Jaap Altelaar, Ada Bergh, Kitty Bergh, Joop Bos, Judith Bos, Rietje Clerx Altelaar, Annie de Jel, Anita de Rouw, Saskia Moerbeek, Ans Haenen van Markestijn, Dick Hemrika, Theo in ‘t Ven, Lenie Kriegelstein Starreveld, Olga Meijer, Dick Pronk, Anneke Tuiteman, Willem Tuiteman, Dinie van Beek, Brenda van der Horst, Nel van der Zee, Elly van Mourik, Leon van Mourik, Kima van Oorschot, Joke Vuur, Rietje Werts Haenen, Cor Werts. Dutch proofreading and editing: Els Spin. English translation: Dominique Ballard; English proofreading: Graham McMaster. Scans &amp; prepress: OLP Zagreb. Transfer decal printing and firing: Maatwerktegels/Solke Pasveer. Tile layer: Gouweoord Afbouw. Thanks to: Nancy L. Conlan, Arnold Folkerts, Cor Jaring, Carla van der Meijs, Noud Verhave, Jeroen Verhulst, Ada van de Weijer. Commissioned by: City of Amsterdam-Center, De Key Housing Corporation. Additional support by: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. Photos: Kristina Leko, David Smithson, NN. GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: permanent intervention in public space; public art project; community art project; oral history/memorial project; participatory-documentary art project; project with specific social groups. Artwork/s and artifacts: oral history workshops; texts; a series of biographical and historical texts; ceramic tiles with kiln-fired decals applied on architecture. Timeframe: process – 3 years; community work – 6 months; workshops – 8 weeks. Number and profile of participants: 25 participants, 80% elderly. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b90c9708d10fd696375be30154d259ad22e7167af3a50a127fa0f2c15930e7d4/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_002.jpg" data-mid="86544772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b90c9708d10fd696375be30154d259ad22e7167af3a50a127fa0f2c15930e7d4/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_002.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f190dc21ba5a025f0fd63d9cc6aced71aecae78c5b61975f6f62f54ec08b5b4/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_005.jpg" data-mid="86544774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f190dc21ba5a025f0fd63d9cc6aced71aecae78c5b61975f6f62f54ec08b5b4/02_24_2007_Ex_Kat_RL_LOW_005.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" 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14:25:36 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/THE-BERBERS-Vienna <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19479edf0d17fbbd2d069680da12ad0e2f77443369e35fecc64f3e63fee9fc28/00_27_2010Ex_03_TheBerbers_0004.jpg" data-mid="86544819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19479edf0d17fbbd2d069680da12ad0e2f77443369e35fecc64f3e63fee9fc28/00_27_2010Ex_03_TheBerbers_0004.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/171511c6d755e167da60e73f0acf83ae7de2f19a2213e06bd86428c1a0cdbca9/00_27_2010Ex_02_TheBerbers_003.jpg" data-mid="86544818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/171511c6d755e167da60e73f0acf83ae7de2f19a2213e06bd86428c1a0cdbca9/00_27_2010Ex_02_TheBerbers_003.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8a4e851d3f3758458f98a7c6f31124f73f68d03d68104724c257b527145f26e/00_27_2010Ex_08-TheBerbers_0006.jpg" /> <img width="939" height="1080" width_o="939" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/971c3a841139ad121009e1179850a6ed34471ef13ed622c56fdd1adbad730b94/Hw_TheBerbers_002.jpg" data-mid="86546887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/939/i/971c3a841139ad121009e1179850a6ed34471ef13ed622c56fdd1adbad730b94/Hw_TheBerbers_002.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63e1824fd177f716c077019850438c13faf1b25080098fd29ca90b928f4d85e8/00_27_2010Ex_06_TheBerbers_008.jpg" data-mid="86544821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63e1824fd177f716c077019850438c13faf1b25080098fd29ca90b928f4d85e8/00_27_2010Ex_06_TheBerbers_008.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c942ccc5d1b4f8f75d7bab51c274f766bab5dcd558c6cab0fdfc0c4b2d592ba3/00_27_2010Ex_04_TheBerbers_001.jpg" data-mid="86544820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c942ccc5d1b4f8f75d7bab51c274f766bab5dcd558c6cab0fdfc0c4b2d592ba3/00_27_2010Ex_04_TheBerbers_001.jpg" /> <img width="939" height="1080" width_o="939" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/971c3a841139ad121009e1179850a6ed34471ef13ed622c56fdd1adbad730b94/Hw_TheBerbers_002.jpg" data-mid="86546887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/939/i/971c3a841139ad121009e1179850a6ed34471ef13ed622c56fdd1adbad730b94/Hw_TheBerbers_002.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8a4e851d3f3758458f98a7c6f31124f73f68d03d68104724c257b527145f26e/00_27_2010Ex_08-TheBerbers_0006.jpg" data-mid="86544822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8a4e851d3f3758458f98a7c6f31124f73f68d03d68104724c257b527145f26e/00_27_2010Ex_08-TheBerbers_0006.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63e1824fd177f716c077019850438c13faf1b25080098fd29ca90b928f4d85e8/00_27_2010Ex_06_TheBerbers_008.jpg" data-mid="86544821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63e1824fd177f716c077019850438c13faf1b25080098fd29ca90b928f4d85e8/00_27_2010Ex_06_TheBerbers_008.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19479edf0d17fbbd2d069680da12ad0e2f77443369e35fecc64f3e63fee9fc28/00_27_2010Ex_03_TheBerbers_0004.jpg" data-mid="86544819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19479edf0d17fbbd2d069680da12ad0e2f77443369e35fecc64f3e63fee9fc28/00_27_2010Ex_03_TheBerbers_0004.jpg" /> THE BERBERS Open market Naschmarkt, Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, 2010 With the participation of the Berber Family This intervention at Vienna’s famous open-air market recounted a history of a Greek family and their market stall. For half a year the stall of the Berber family was covered with stories handwritten on blackboards. These, narrated by the family members themselves, depicted the family’s daily life against its changing social and political backgrounds over the period of 50 years. The work paid tribute to migrants’ contributions to the Viennese everyday culture. It attracted audiences of the Wiener Festwochen, and invited them to read, buy and and interact.&nbsp; Read MoreThe Berber Family has been running their stall at Vienna’s best known open-air market, the Naschmarkt, since 1969. These days they sell first-rate fruit and vegetables sourced from all over Europe and the world, while at one time they sold imported Greek and Turkish provisions, along with homemade specialties produced by the mother of the family. The Berbers’ roots go back to a Greek island off the coast of Turkey that was depopulated during the 20th century due to the Greek-Turkish war and the severe political problems that followed. The Berbers, like many other Greek families from the island, became political refugees during the crisis of the 1960s, which is how they ended up in Vienna. The Berber family occupies a special place in the history of the Naschmarkt and in the history of Viennese cuisine in general. In early 1970, the father of the family, together with two Austrian partners, friends of his, organized the first imports of olives, olive oil and feta cheese to Vienna. He is now retired, spending most of his time back on the island, while his sons are now running the stall. The artistic intervention linked buyers and visitors to the market through stories and memories recounted by the family members: recollections about their stall, their family life, their past and future, and about the market itself. Through hand-written texts, photographs and single channel video, the stall was temporarily transformed into a tribute to the contribution of foreign workers (Gastarbeiter) to the Viennese table and Austrian society in general while vividly commemorating the family’s own particular history within the wider context of migration. The intervention was produced as part of the Wiener Festwochen festival and was on view from June to October 2010. RELATED&nbsp; Wiener Festwochen &nbsp;Festwochen am Nashmarkt CREDITS The Berbers intervention was commissioned by the Wiener Festwochen, exhibition Im Paradiesgarten nto the City in 2010. Cuator: Birgit Lurz. Project team and installation: Kristina Leko, David Smithson. Handwritings: Iva Gregorić, Kristina Leko. Potos: Kristina Leko. GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: research; temporary intervention in public and semi-public space; oral history; participatory-documentary art project; project with specific social groups. Artwork/s and artifacts: interviews; texts, hand-written text panels; photographs, video. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/171511c6d755e167da60e73f0acf83ae7de2f19a2213e06bd86428c1a0cdbca9/00_27_2010Ex_02_TheBerbers_003.jpg" data-mid="86544818" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/171511c6d755e167da60e73f0acf83ae7de2f19a2213e06bd86428c1a0cdbca9/00_27_2010Ex_02_TheBerbers_003.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19479edf0d17fbbd2d069680da12ad0e2f77443369e35fecc64f3e63fee9fc28/00_27_2010Ex_03_TheBerbers_0004.jpg" data-mid="86544819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19479edf0d17fbbd2d069680da12ad0e2f77443369e35fecc64f3e63fee9fc28/00_27_2010Ex_03_TheBerbers_0004.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c942ccc5d1b4f8f75d7bab51c274f766bab5dcd558c6cab0fdfc0c4b2d592ba3/00_27_2010Ex_04_TheBerbers_001.jpg" data-mid="86544820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c942ccc5d1b4f8f75d7bab51c274f766bab5dcd558c6cab0fdfc0c4b2d592ba3/00_27_2010Ex_04_TheBerbers_001.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63e1824fd177f716c077019850438c13faf1b25080098fd29ca90b928f4d85e8/00_27_2010Ex_06_TheBerbers_008.jpg" data-mid="86544821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63e1824fd177f716c077019850438c13faf1b25080098fd29ca90b928f4d85e8/00_27_2010Ex_06_TheBerbers_008.jpg" /><img width="939" height="1080" width_o="939" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/971c3a841139ad121009e1179850a6ed34471ef13ed622c56fdd1adbad730b94/Hw_TheBerbers_002.jpg" data-mid="86546887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/939/i/971c3a841139ad121009e1179850a6ed34471ef13ed622c56fdd1adbad730b94/Hw_TheBerbers_002.jpg" /> &nbsp; Next Project ︎ https://klekoweb.cargo.site/KZN-II-PUBLIC-READING Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:26:37 +0000 k.lekoweb https://klekoweb.cargo.site/KZN-II-PUBLIC-READING &nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b04b75e0973cc2b45349357887b83d5029c509f45e5a55ba4df5be4485cde39/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_003.jpg" data-mid="86547273" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b04b75e0973cc2b45349357887b83d5029c509f45e5a55ba4df5be4485cde39/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_003.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fe52a31e34124b19d77d03ab9d5802418ce33acb0b7bbfd29393446de23ee42/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_001b.jpg" data-mid="86547271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fe52a31e34124b19d77d03ab9d5802418ce33acb0b7bbfd29393446de23ee42/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_001b.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3d1210ab8f1690b85d905b775e25e638a24fdb12da2e0fcde9a4795bd925a26/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_004.jpg" data-mid="86547274" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3d1210ab8f1690b85d905b775e25e638a24fdb12da2e0fcde9a4795bd925a26/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_004.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fbc3aa5edd130169be0b054137d5f9322d69098606158db5dae01269a55babe/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_002.jpg" data-mid="86547272" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fbc3aa5edd130169be0b054137d5f9322d69098606158db5dae01269a55babe/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_002.jpg" /> THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE / KAKO ŽIVI NAROD Public Reading/Performance Maksimir Park, Zagreb February 14th, 2010 On Sunday, February 14, 2010 at noon in Zagreb’s Maksimir Park, Kristina Leko read excerpts from the book “The Way People Live – Life in Passive (Undeveloped) Regions” written by Rudolf Bićanić in 1936. The intention was to highlight parallels between the present-day socioeconomics and those from some 80 years ago when Croatian peasantry was indebted to such an extent that a moratorium on their debts had to be enforced in 1929. Read More While the air temperature hovered at -12°C, the reading lasted for 70 minutes, and I went through three book-chapters dedicated to the regional finances and banking in the 1920s and 1930s: “Peasants’ loans and debts”, "Trade and bank loans" and "Peasants on debt relief and regulation of peasant loans". The reading attracted some invited but mostly accidental audiences. Back then, in 2010 and some years prior, rumors were going around about people burdened with debts committing suicide. Starting in 2004 foreign banks defrauded and indebted 100.000 Croatian households with so called Swiss franc mortgages, which were ruled as illegitimate and illegal by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2019 as they were built upon currency speculation. The same fraud took place systematically in all Eastern European and Balkan countries. Rudolf Bićanić (1905-1968) was a Croatian economist, demographer, economic historian, rural sociologist, politician and university professor. His above-mentioned groundbreaking study helped establish social sciences in the South Slavic region. For his progressive thinking and critical writings on the national economy, he was imprisoned from 1933 until the end of 1936. After being released, he traveled researching throughout the passive (undeveloped) regions of the Croatian and Bosnian highlands and created a very detailed record of local socioeconomics. Bićanić believed that simple people themselves were able to trace causes and roots of their misery as well as to envision solutions for their problems, and therefore outlined several concepts for national and regional economic programs. One of them, related to the peasants’ clothing and similar to Mahatma Gandhi’s khadi, was directed against imports of low-quality textile from western European countries flooding local markets as a profitable replacement for high-quality wool exported to the same countries. Bićanić had been politically instrumental in assisting peasants in their self-organizing for decades which then influenced his sociopolitical views. His work feeds into a legacy of demystification of economic theories. Just several days before the outbreak of the 2008 financial crisis, I happened to stage my first public reading of Bićanić’s texts, which was triggered and inspired by rumors and reports of suicides committed by small entrepreneurs. Aside from the book-chapters related to loans and debts, I also read the chapters: “The question of the peasant dress”, and “The peasant dress from the point of view of the national economy”. <img width="2376" height="4224" width_o="2376" height_o="4224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/550d021100c137d96dfa5a30ce0632344a377a7eb69d667c7ae3cf057533b43c/L1030588.JPG" data-mid="98286801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/550d021100c137d96dfa5a30ce0632344a377a7eb69d667c7ae3cf057533b43c/L1030588.JPG" /> <img width="2376" height="4224" width_o="2376" height_o="4224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e4652486dcaf518a28f362394a689caa6771a619350a97996fbc98c3c4b662e/L1030574.JPG" data-mid="98286770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e4652486dcaf518a28f362394a689caa6771a619350a97996fbc98c3c4b662e/L1030574.JPG" /> <img width="1772" height="1161" width_o="1772" height_o="1161" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1260ae90272e2a66c790377cbab9ba3dacd0286824004dd1e3cf754931f197bd/L1030585.jpg" data-mid="98287442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1260ae90272e2a66c790377cbab9ba3dacd0286824004dd1e3cf754931f197bd/L1030585.jpg" /> RELATED&nbsp; blok.hr – Money-Project CREDITS&nbsp;The video of the performance was shown later in the Kraljevic Gallery in Zagreb within the exhibition “Money”. Curator: Vesna Vuković. Event production and logistics: BLOK – Local Base for Culture Refreshment, www.blok.hr. Photographs: David Smithson. GENRE&amp;FORMATS Project: public reading, performance. Artwork/s and artifacts: video documentation, installation. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fe52a31e34124b19d77d03ab9d5802418ce33acb0b7bbfd29393446de23ee42/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_001b.jpg" data-mid="86547271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fe52a31e34124b19d77d03ab9d5802418ce33acb0b7bbfd29393446de23ee42/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_001b.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fbc3aa5edd130169be0b054137d5f9322d69098606158db5dae01269a55babe/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_002.jpg" data-mid="86547272" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fbc3aa5edd130169be0b054137d5f9322d69098606158db5dae01269a55babe/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_002.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b04b75e0973cc2b45349357887b83d5029c509f45e5a55ba4df5be4485cde39/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_003.jpg" data-mid="86547273" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b04b75e0973cc2b45349357887b83d5029c509f45e5a55ba4df5be4485cde39/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_003.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3d1210ab8f1690b85d905b775e25e638a24fdb12da2e0fcde9a4795bd925a26/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_004.jpg" data-mid="86547274" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3d1210ab8f1690b85d905b775e25e638a24fdb12da2e0fcde9a4795bd925a26/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_004.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1473dcd8cfd0c30f56135cb3b3afa3829f57298821fa9d34500651ccafd6afb8/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_005.jpg" data-mid="86547275" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1473dcd8cfd0c30f56135cb3b3afa3829f57298821fa9d34500651ccafd6afb8/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_005.jpg" /><img width="2376" height="4224" width_o="2376" height_o="4224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a61e5eb504c2cc06fe66ddfbf7ab526b885efa03f74b4b40f7fc539188a264e/L1030579.JPG" data-mid="98286792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a61e5eb504c2cc06fe66ddfbf7ab526b885efa03f74b4b40f7fc539188a264e/L1030579.JPG" /><img width="0" height="0" width_o="0" height_o="0" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d36359afb2e644d2645f4471da1cfa1e424083ff3363ce665831370a0436067/L1030585.jpg" data-mid="98286796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/0/i/9d36359afb2e644d2645f4471da1cfa1e424083ff3363ce665831370a0436067/L1030585.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="1194" width_o="1772" height_o="1194" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbdd8b5e78f95698b3092c988779f8782d9bc8dbcf7f07c0db3a00850634ebbd/L1030590.jpg" data-mid="98286802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbdd8b5e78f95698b3092c988779f8782d9bc8dbcf7f07c0db3a00850634ebbd/L1030590.jpg" /><img width="2376" height="3510" width_o="2376" height_o="3510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb63fb3a1ad4df95b464625c3a68288ab9d6400c7cd7703c441178c9967ed1cf/Leko_Kakozivinarod_2008.jpg" data-mid="98286806" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb63fb3a1ad4df95b464625c3a68288ab9d6400c7cd7703c441178c9967ed1cf/Leko_Kakozivinarod_2008.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="1161" width_o="1772" height_o="1161" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1260ae90272e2a66c790377cbab9ba3dacd0286824004dd1e3cf754931f197bd/L1030585.jpg" data-mid="98287442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1260ae90272e2a66c790377cbab9ba3dacd0286824004dd1e3cf754931f197bd/L1030585.jpg" /><img width="2218" height="1544" width_o="2218" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcbbda41a0054a96875b4254c54cfeb53b2946ee36920fdc5297e2f694f0aa24/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_006.jpg" data-mid="99860816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcbbda41a0054a96875b4254c54cfeb53b2946ee36920fdc5297e2f694f0aa24/26_2010_KakoZiviNarodMaximir_006.jpg" /> &nbsp; Next Project ︎