VITIĆ DANCES – Zagreb Architects Association – ODAZIV program

With the goal of encouraging students to become proactive participants in society, ODAZIV was created. It is a platform for educational and entertaining activities, spontaneously created within and outside the Zagreb Architects Association.

This Friday at 7 p.m., there will be a screening of the documentary film “Vitić Dances” by intermedia artist Boris Bakal. The film documents a twenty-year-long process of striving to restore the high-rise building designed by architect Ivan Vitić on Laginjina Street. Vitić’s skyscraper is presented as a silent protagonist of the film, where it becomes a case study of various relationships within contemporary society. These relationships include the individual versus the collective, the inherited versus the current, the necessary versus the futile. In addition to showcasing the turbulent relationships between the residents, the building, and the activist-director, the film also offers a somewhat different approach to the established practices of restoration. Thus, Bakal’s long-term project interprets the concept of restoration as a process of renewing awareness towards inherited spaces, not just a physical restoration of the existing space.

“Vitić Dances” is the first in a series of “Debates on Responsibility.” This series ambitiously asks the question of how to act in the current context and what our duty within it is. The debates present complementary and opposing methods of action, aiming to place their role within an organized society. Architecture is thus positioned as a tool for social responsibility.

The screening starts at 7 p.m., see you there – After the film screening, there will be an open discussion with director Boris Bakal.