Vanishing City: Invitation to the Final Night

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concept: Miljana Zeković, Višnja Žugić

guest mentor: James Dalton

participants/authors: students of Ephemeral Architecture course 2011/12

supporter: INFANT, Novi Sad

This project consists of 5 video works derived from a 5 days workshop organized for students of architecture. This workshop was anticipated as a sort of video-liberation/emancipation of students, since the plan was to get them acquainted and receptive to learn through new media and get them involved into making short videos about space. They have embraced different media as an alternative way of learning about space, in comparison with well known methods widely used in architectural education. As a result we produced short videos which showed deeper understanding of space, wider alternative meanings of space and told different stories about spaces, both real and imaginary.

Process

authors' team: Jelena Despotović, Ivana Maksimović, Milica Mastilović, Sofija Simendić, Goran Štrbac

team leader: Bojan Stojković

music: Pink Floyd – Wish you were here (Cover)

location: The old Nitrogen Factory in Novi Sad

Disappearance, as a part of an overall process, is shown in an abandoned space, which incorporates life. Elements that revive the space are combining, producing new forms, isolating, as a hint of disappearing, and finally reappearing, in order to point out a circular process and a new life of the space itself.

Layers

authors' team: Saška Cvijanović, Vesna Lugonja, Miljana Popović, Anđela Subotić

team leader: Aleksandar Bede, Miroslav Dimitrijević

music: Hiqulus – Water above
location: Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Summer Stage

Sometimes one needs only fragments of an image to perceive and understand them as a whole. Speaking of a city, these fragments can “escape“ from original time, but their effect can remain present long after vanishing, providing segments that reconstruct the overall image and the layers of memory.

Space

authors' team: Tamara Grujić, Sanja Madžovska, Jasna Simić
team leader: Nikola Crevar

music: Trentemøller – Shades of Marble

location: Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Summer Stage

The world is in a constant process of disappearing, and a man, who is focused only on one point, does not notice changes that are happening around him. Indicated in an abstract manner, vanishing of a city is not only disappearance of material things, it is also followed by energy transformation.

Adhesion

authors' team: Danilo Kordulup, Jelena Mitrović, Ivana Polić, Stefan Šćekić, Anna Tóth
team leader: Luka Ljumović
music: Francesco Durante - Vergin, tutto amor (Cover)

location: Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Summer Stage

The last day of a city. Five people accepting this fact, each in a different way. Some of them remembering past, some experiencing the moment, and the others looking towards future that is about to come.

A Day to do Whatever

authors' team: Adrijana Marinković, Vladan Perić, Aleksandar Radivojević, Tatjana Šolević

team leader: Vladimir Savić

music: Jon Hopkins – Vessel (Four Tet Remix)

location: Cultural Centre of Novi Sad

The space always continues to evolve within people. Projected as both real and imaginary world defined and shaped by human memory, it underlines contrast between the real environment and the subjective perception of space.

We do not own the rights to songs used in films Adhesion, Space, A Day to do Whatever and Process; no copyright infringement intended. For educational and inspirational purposes only. The song in the film Layers was composed and performed by authors.