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Reclaiming the Past, Re(pre)senting the Present: Artivism, Visual Art and Deindustrialisation.

In this paper, we use the Croatian town of Sisak as an example to discuss different artivist strategies for engaging with the town’s industrial past and turning it into contemporary art. As a signal post-industrial town Sisak has become a case study and an example of effects of structural deindustrialisation. We approach the town of Sisak as an instance of derelict, deindustrialised city that used to be known for its distinctive landscape of industrial ruins, wastelands, dead zones, and dark industrial neighbourhoods. What made Sisak an industrial ghost town at some point in its recent history was its heritage of industrial ruins, and it was precisely these ruins that became a prime incentive and thriving site of reflexion for Sisak-born visual artists. They are a group of artivists who dedicated their work to giving social commentary, political critique and utopian reflexions of what once was a hyper productive industrial town. The works of conceptual artists Marijan Crtalić and Marko Tadić and film-maker Goran Dević explore “speculative views”, imaginations of the “pastfutures”, and the nostalgia of industrial ruins. Here, they will be analysed as one of the remaining institutions of social and cultural critique.

Artivism, deindustrialisation, Sisak

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