[spectre] 2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina

[Basak Senova]

2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina
April 26–September 26, 2013
www.bijenale.ba
 
 
The partner countries are the Republics of Turkey and Croatia, in this
respect, the curators are Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi, who have their
paired curatorial statements under the titles Time Cube and The Castle and
selected 35 international projects.
 
Regardless of constructed histories and collective memories, remembering
means jumping from one sequence to another. Each reading guides towards a
new reality and each reality illuminates a new path to discover curves,
waves, missing details, obscured secrets, and disguised opinions. By
navigating through sequences of time, Time Cube aims at dwelling in past and
future memories by (i) reconstructing narratives; (ii) experiencing diverse
realities simultaneously; (iii) connecting the temporal with the spatial;
and (iv) processing the evidences of fiction and fact together. Following
the same line of thought, The Castle focuses on the unnerving sensation of
paranoia, doom and egotism emanating from the inversion of the ancient
concept of fortress to the underground haven for the political and military
elite of the Cold War era and its contemporary transition into the tourist
attraction. The central object of the Biennial is “Facility D-0, Tito’s
Atomic War Command” located in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, this
very object still stands as a unique fiction, which is also a pastiche of
industrial aesthetics and facts with working engines and ventilators as the
backdrop of a historical fact. The bunker simply freezes time and is totally
isolated from the outer world. At the same time, the bunker unfolds all the
possible tensions, disappointments, dreams, hopes, and miseries of the
entire geography. 
 
Participating artists are Adel Abidin, Alban Muja, Alfredo Pirri, Almin
Zrno, Apparatus 22 and Studio Basar, Armin Linke, Autopsia, Banu Cennetoğlu
and Yasemin Özcan, Brian Dailey, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Carlo Crovato,
Conor McGrady, Cynthia Zaven, Dalibor Martinis, Danica Dakic, Daniel Garcia
Andujar, Dario Solman, Edin Numankadic, Edo Murtic, Emre Erkal, Ibro
Hasanovic, Igor Bosnjak, Janos Sugar, Kim Cascone, Laibach, Luchezar
Boyadjiev, Miroslaw Balka, Nenad Malesevic, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Renata
Poljak, Paul Devens, Saeri Kiritani, Simona Dumitriu, Stealth.unlimited, and
Yane Calovski.
 
The 2nd edition of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and
Herzegovina will take place April 26 through September 26, 2013.
 
2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 
Curators: Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi
Curators’ assistant: Irfan Hosic
Project Biennial Director: Edo Hozic
Financial Expert: Snjezana Mesihovic
Coordinator in Chief: Sandra Miljevic Hozic
Executive Director: Ninoslav Verber
Project assistant: Jasmin Corbadzic, Belma Jusufovic
Production Team: Almir Abaz, Ivana Vukovic, Mirnes Bajic
Public program: Basak Senova, Didem Yazici, Irfan Hosic in collaboration
with Marieke Van Hal, the Biennial Foundation

Partner institutions: Ministry of Defense of B&H, Goethe Institute in
Sarajevo, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Museum of
Contemporary Art Zagreb, History Museum B&H, Herzegovina – Neretva Canton
Tourist Board, Bosniak Institute Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, Black Box,
FAKTA.

Support: Support: Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Ministry for Culture and Sport of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Ministry for Culture and Sport of Canton Sarajevo, Ministry for Culture of
Republic of Serbia, Ministry for Culture of Montenegro, Ministry for Culture
of Republic of Croatia, Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Embassy of Republic of Slovenia in B&H, Ministry of Culture of
the Republic of Macedonia, UNESCO, NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, City of
Konjic, SAHA, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Biennial
Foundation, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Romanian Cultural Institute Istanbul,
Mondriaan Fund, Record Industry and Kilobase.
 

The Program 23-27 April, 2013
  
Press Conference
 
The press conference of the 2nd edition of Project Biennial D-0 ARK
Underground, Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held at History Museum, Sarajevo
on April, 23rd, 12.00h. The language of the conference will be Bosnian. The
same content and information will be given to public in English, during the
opening of the roundtable discussion at Bosniak Institute Foundation,
Sarajevo on 27th, 16.00h.
 
 
Public Programs
 
23 - 24 - 25 / 27 April, 16.00h - 19.30h
Adil Zulfikarpasic Bosniak Institute Foundation, Sarajevo
 
On the occasion of the 2nd edition Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground:
Time Cube and The Castle, the public programs are designed to support the
objective of building a bridge between the international and the local
actors of the contemporary art by developing community outreach approaches.
Public program activities are carried out in two phases.
 
The first phase is designed to engage the local art community with the
biennial artists. The participating artists are Banu Cennetoğlu, Conor
McGrady, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Paul Devens, Laibach, Nemanja Cvijanovic,
Dalibor Martinis, Renata Poljak, Simona Dumitriu, Stealth.unlimited, and
Yane Calovski. 
 
The second phase presents a roundtable discussion which hovers around the
issues of the role of the biennials as institutional models, the
responsibilities of the curators, the educational input of the biennials,
and the precarious labor in art. The participants are Iara Bubnova, Ute Meta
Bauer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Pelin Tan, and Anton Vidokle, moderated by the
curators of the biennial: Basak Senova and Branko Franceschi along with
Marieke van Hal of the Biennial Foundation who will make an introduction
 
The talks are held in Bosnian and English and the events are free and open
to the public. 

 
The Performances
 
The opening performance Red Empty, Sarajevo by Carl Michael von Hausswolff,
will take place at History Museum, Sarajevo on April 23rd, 20.30 h.
 
The sound artist Paul Devens will perform at Kriterion on April 26th,
9.30pm. His performance will be followed by the DJ performance of the
Sarajevo based DJ Abas Samurai.
 
The Opening
 
The opening of the biennial will take place at Tito’s Nuclear Bunker, Konjic
on April 26th, 2013, 11.00h- 16.00h.
 
Project D-0 ARK Underground, stationed in the space of the Atomic shelter in
Konjic, 45km south of Sarajevo, is known as Tito’s atomic shelter. It's
CODE name is Istanbul. The shelter occupies a space of 6.500 square meters
and consists of 12 connected blocks. The construction and existence of this
bunker was kept secret until the 1990s. The object is administered by the
Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Biennial Directorate
wants to protect it and keep it preserved with the help of artists and their
artworks. Most of the artworks from the first edition remained exhibited at
the shelter. For this edition 35 art projects take place in the bunker. More
than half of these projects have been commissioned by the biennial.

 
Addresses

Tito’s Nuclear Bunker, Konjic
History Museum, Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo
Adil Zulfikarpasic Bosniak Institute Foundation, Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 21,
Sarajevo
Kriterion, Obala Kulina Bana 2, Sarajevo

 
Shuttles for the opening
 
There will be two shuttles on April 26th. The buses leave from ??? in
Sarajevo at 11.00h and 13.00h.

 
Timetable for organized visits to the Biennial on Friday April 26 2013,
Saturday, April 27 2013 and Sunday, April 28 2013:
 
-  12.30 h – First visit
-  14.30 h – Second visit
-  16.30 h – Third visit
Afterwards, visits to the Biennial will be organized on Mondays, Wednesdays,
Fridays at 10.00h, 12.00h and 14.00h. Timetable for organized bus tours will
be also available at the Konjic Tourist Office. Telephone number: +387 36
728 123. Organized visits to the Biennial must be scheduled two days in
advance.