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Discourses From a Periphery 004 Jadranka Vinterhalter Grey) (area: Black and White Reflection of Art 010 Darko Fritz Discourses From a Periphery Editor: Darko Fritz 028 Sonja Leboš Island Networks and Local Politics Authors of the texts: Irena Bekić, Marija Borovičkić, Sarah Cook, Bronaċ Ferran, Darko Fritz, 034 NEW MATERIALISMS Sonja Leboš, Tonka Maleković, Ivana Meštrov, Manja Ristić, Sani Sardelić, Jadranka Vinterhalter, 044 Sarah Cook Concretely Immaterial Lea Vene 058 Bronaċ Ferran Strange Loops in the Binary – Neither High Road nor Low Publisher: grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art 074 CRITICAL TOURISM Siva zona - prostor suvremene i medijske umjetnosti 080 Irena Bekić Andreja Kulunčić: Commercialisation of History 092 Critical Tourism 1: Focus the Adriatic www.sivazona.hr 094 POLITICS OF GREEN SPACES 098 Darko Fritz Politics of Green Spaces For the publisher: Darko Fritz 106 Sani Sardelić Wild Edible Herbs – Parapač, Mišanca, Gruda – Possibility and Challenge 122 Manja Ristić Sounds of Time and Place Design: Darko Fritz 138 HISTORY OF CONTEMPORANEITY Translation: Darko Fritz (p. 207, 208), Sonja Leboš, Graham McMaster (Andreja Kulunčić: 144 Cinematography of the Adriatic Islands Commercialisation of History, The History of Screening on the Island of Korčula, intro), Aleksandra 146 Ivan Ramljak The History of Screening on the Island of Korčula Sekulić (Video, Television, Anticipation) 155 Darko Fritz, Ivan Ramljak Cinema Theatres on the Adriatic Islands Proofread: Katarina Duplančić (Ugo La Pietra :: Disequilibrating Systems), Geoff Lucas (Concretely Immaterial, Strange Loops in the Binary – Neither High Road nor Low), AnneMarie Maes (Politics 164 Mihovil Pansini of Green Spaces), Sonja Leboš 165 Darko Fritz, Mihovil Pansini, Sani Sardelić How does Space Remember? 170 Industrial Heritage of the Island of Korčula Print: Sveučilišna tiskara, Zagreb 172 Marija Borovičkić, Lea Vene To Inherit Industry? Edition: 400 184 International Artists’ Meetings in Vela Luka 1968 - 1972 ISBN 978-953-49508-1-4 186 Darko Fritz (Un)Reached Utopia od the International Artists’ Meetings in Vela Luka 202 Darko Fritz, Sonja Leboš Ugo La Pietra :: Disequilibrating Systems All artworks reproduced in this publication were presented in grey) (area program. If not stated 206 Praxis / Korčula Summer School otherwise, the photography is from grey) (area archive. 212 Bernardo Bernardi 213 Darko Fritz, Sonja Leboš Maja Marković: Interior Standstill Support: Kultura Nova Foundation and Korčula Tourist Board 220 Silvio Foretić 221 Darko Fritz Space of Sound, Space of Excess, Space of Freedom, Space of Silvio Foretić The printing of this publication has been financed by Kultura Nova Foundation.The viewpoints set 226 Guest Curators out in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of 228 Annick Bureaud Aquatocene: Escaping Sound Pollution Kultura Nova Foundation. 229 Sarah Cook Elixir 230 Ştefan Rusu Changing Climate [Central Asian Video] 231 Barbara Borčić Race with Time 2. Performance in a Rear-view Mirror 232 KONTEJNER Beggar robot 2.0 at vacations / Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Love Korčula, 2021 234 Branka Benčić, Aleksandra Sekulić Video, Television, Anticipation 235 Dunja Blažević PRO.BA production 236 Laura Netz Sounding DIY 240 Ivana Meštrov, Tonka Maleković (Loose Associations) Every House is an Island 244 Program 2020 < --- > 2006 (Raščić), a documentary film (Faktor), some photo-video/video clips (Cvjetanović) as well as the works of dislocated and multifaceted acting in time and space (Savić-Gecan), Grey) (area: Black and anticipating in that way the course of exhibiting strategy that grey) (area has kept until the present day. White Reflection of Art In 2007 grey) (area hosted foreign artists and curatorial concepts by invited authors. So, there were programs such as Changing Climate – video art from Central Asia (curatorial concept by Ştefan Rusu) and PRO.BA, TV, video, and film production of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Sarajevo (curator Dunja Blažević). In the same year the performance Lighter by Slaven Tolj and interventions in public space with the international mail-art action (anonymous artist/Goran Trbuljak with posters Old and depressive anonymous is looking for a permanent display place in some nice new art museum space) also contributed to the constant of the grey) (area gallery agency. After the first five years the space in Vanka’s house was unfortunately lost, and since then grey) (area has been searching every year for a new exhibition space in Korčula town. Jadranka Vinterhalter In 2011 that new space was the front yard of the house that belongs to the member and one of the founders of grey) (area Edita Pecotić. So far, five exhibition spaces have been used: on the locations at St. Justine Sq, Zakrjan, and St. Nicolaus Rd. In 2016, 2018, and 2019 the program was carried out without an exhibition space. Despite that fact, the programs took place in the galleries of other institutions and in public space, thanks to the persistence and engagement of the art director Darko Fritz and project manager Sonja Leboš who were aware that the continual activity guaranteed both the steadily support and quality of projects. The season of 2015 was marked by starting a long-term project of exhibitions and lectures titled New Materialisms which grey) (area carried out in collaboration with HICA Grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art was inaugurated in Korčula in – the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art from Scotland, and Technopolitics – a summer 2006 upon the initiative by the artist, designer, and curator Darko Fritz from transdisciplinary platform for new discourses between sciences and arts from Vienna. Zagreb. In 2009 grey) (area was formally registered as a non-governmental organization The curatorial starting point for the New Materialisms project was addressed towards the and today it has nine members. Sonja Leboš joined in 2013 as project manager. experiences of Concrete Art and Conceptual Art of the 1960s and making dialogue with the contemporary point of view and post-digital environments of our present everyday life. Today that initiative gives an impression of a courageous undertaking, even more, an The exhibitions which included objects (Goran Trbuljak), a sound installation (Hrvoje Hiršl), undertaking that is next to impossible: opening a gallery dedicated to contemporary and the on-line works (Eloi Puig), an audio-visual performance (Ivan Marušić Klif), took place media art on an island in South Dalmatia that intensely lives only during the short summer at various locations in Korčula: Korčula Town Museum, St. Peter’s church, and Duke’s season was a truly unique and risky concept. However, the experiment succeeded, and passage. today, with great pleasure, we can talk about achievements and programs of grey) (area. Darko Fritz ingeniously used the existence of the Maksimilijan Vanka’s house, today In 2016 grey) (area organized the series of lectures preceded by research processes on the Memorial Collection of Maksimilijan Vanka in Korčula administered by the Croatian the targeted themes. Armin Medosch and Darko Fritz gave lectures on New Tendencies Academy of Sciences and Arts.1 Fritz asked for and got the space in the basement of Network Mapping in the baroque garden that belongs to the Foretić family while Ivan Vanka’s house, a space that was originally planned to be a storage for boats during bad Ramljak gave a lecture on the history of cinema theatres and cinema screenings on the weather. That space, used by grey) (area until 2010, provided a marvellous experience of the Island of Korčula in the Korčula Town Hall. Although without an exhibition space, in being close to the sea, in immediate contact with the breezes, waves, horizon, karst, and 2018 and 2019 the programs of grey) (area went on unobstructed, successfully taking the sky. It was a pleasurable and intimate space where projections, presentations, artist place in Korčula open air cinema, and were perceived very well by different audiences talks, and informal gatherings successfully took place. because being adapted to the ambience and technical conditions of the given space. There are two key characteristics of the grey) (area activities: the international cooperation While trying to connect events in the traditional gallery with the programs of the new and simultaneous programming in other Croatian and world cities. The exhibition art space the new signs for both galleries were produced, according to Fritz’s concept and design. In summer 2006 the well-known artists Lala Raščić, Boris Cvjetanović, Ivan Concretely Immaterial took place in 2011 simultaneously in two venues – in Korčula and Faktor and Tomo Savić-Gecan,2 dedicated to the artistic language and expressions in HICA Gallery in Inverness-shire. More than just listing the grey) (area program that can be various media, showed their works. Therefore, in the first year, a cross- section exhibition systematically followed on its web page www.sivazona.hr, in this text we are interested in of contemporary and media art was produced, which comprised a video performance the functioning and subsistence of grey) (area, so we will tackle its operational strategies. 4 grey) (area ::::::: discourses from the periphery One of the tasks of grey) (area is the thorough and comprehensive