Opening and Programme of the “Institute for the Remains of the Future” – on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Shadow Casters

On May 5 at 5:00 PM, in the exhibition hall of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb, Shadow Casters will ceremonially inaugurate the “Institute for the Remains of the Future” — an institution for public use and for the forensic recording of traces, questions, shadows, archives, unfinished conversations, misfiled promises, and conflicting futures which, for reasons of unknown optimism, have already begun.

The Institute is not temporary. As long as the remains of the future persist, so does the Institute — however much time we may have left.

After 25 years of work, Shadow Casters, in their consistent unreliability of narration, do not open a retrospective, but inaugurate a space in which what remains of past and future attempts can be re-exhibited, read, contested, used, misunderstood, and perhaps transformed into a new shared situation.

The programme of the Institute will take place throughout the month of May in four blocks:
May 5–9 (11:00–19:00)
May 12–16 (11:00–19:00)
May 19–23 (11:00–19:00)
May 26–30 (11:00–19:00)

Every Friday, from 16:45 to 19:00, a workshop on documenting and mockumenting by Shadow Casters will be held.

As the announcement of a serious institution should not be exhausted on the first day, and as the future does not tolerate an excess of explanation at once, special events, conversations, performances, encounters, workshops, interventions, film programmes, and other possible (non)occasions will be announced separately, each with its own rules.

The Institute programme is realised in collaboration with: Ivan Klisurić, Boris Vuković, Stanko Juzbašić, Leo Vukelić, Bojana Burnać, Maruška Aras, Sandra Uskoković, Viktorija Pilon, Višnja Žugić, Zvonimir Bešlić, Anja Pletikosa, Tomislav Krstanović, Veno Mušinović, Boris Beštak, Mladen Hrvoje Ilić, Boris Bakal, and many others.

The programme is organised in collaboration with the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Savska cesta 18, Zagreb.

Project partners: MOTS Gallery Trnjanska Savica, Student Centre Zagreb, Croatian School Museum, Faculty of Science (Department of Geology), Jadran Film.

The “Institute for the Remains of the Future” is supported by: the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society.

Shadow Casters are supported by: Erasmus+; HAVC; the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth; the Agency for Electronic Media; the Croatian Audiovisual Authors’ and Producers’ Association; Primorje-Gorski Kotar County; the City of Split; the City of Koprivnica; the City of Rijeka; and part of the programme is implemented through the Clubture network, supported by the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and Kultura Nova Foundation.