What Do We Need Community For? & Drekplaz – December 27, 2017, at 7:30 PM

Croatian Design Store and Shadow Casters invite you to Urban Hum/IBCT events:

• Radio-Oko: Drekplaz
• Radio-Oko: What Do We Need Community For?

Authors: Veno Mušinović, Leo Vukelić, and Boris Bakal

Collaborators: Anja Pletikosa, Sandra Uskoković, Jelena Mesar, Nikša Marinović, Nikolina Komljenović, Dora Kokolj, Domagoj Klasnić, Vedran Senjanović, Nikolina Butorac, Vesna Mačković, and many others (apologies to anyone we may have inadvertently left out)

Special Thanks: +Lilly The Cream Cheese

Production: Shadow Casters

Donations: ECF, Swiss Confederation, Kultura Nova Foundation, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

Urban Hum/IBCT is an international platform/project for exploring urban hypertext and its application in understanding urban transformations, fostering therapeutic development of the city, and highlighting inherently conflicting spatial dynamics within the city. IBCT (If Buildings Could Talk) is a project within the UH platform that zooms in on a specific location, building, or spatial situation and reveals it through performance lectures, film works, or other artistic means, following workshops, research, and forensic insights. IBCT is an international partnership project of associations and organizations from Macedonia (FRU, Bitola/Skopje), Serbia (Supervizualna, Belgrade), and Croatia (Shadow Casters).

Radio-Oko is a long-term project of Shadow Casters that pays homage to the Kino oko program and is based on the paradigm of soundtracking silent films and creating added value by introducing parallel narratives in a different medium. Just as musicians once accompanied silent films with live music, the authors involved in Radio-Oko will create a parallel visual narrative to a predetermined soundscape—selected audio tracks or sound collages.

Radio-Oko: Drekplaz is a sound-visual commentary on the spatial and political context of Franjo Tuđman Square, which, according to city definitions, is not actually a square but, as it is often popularly called today, Drekplaz—due to the amount of dog waste. Therefore, the authors have added a visual dimension to the “political” soundscape named after the square, from the perspective of a dog.

Radio-Oko: What Do We Need Community For? is a sound-visual commentary on the spatial and political context of Eugen Kvaternik Square in Bjelovar. This central city square, located in the center of the Maria-Theresian military Castrum, is guarded by four barely known saints and numerous trees, but the authors question what exactly is being guarded. The streets that surround and lead into the square, their now again changed names, and alterations in the architectural landscape and substantive content speak of changes that are not always desired by everyone. This film-sound work is a homage to the possibilities of coexistence that are being erased. The form and content intertwine here, vividly illustrating spatial changes and dynamics of this square through visual and sound recording.

Leo Vukelić and Boris Bakal will present the IBCT program and announce the research workshops and lectures to be held in January 2017 at the Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, POGON. Dates for workshops and lectures will be announced later.