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(Past) Visions of the Future and the Materialization of Memory in Public Space: Nova Gorica – A Town Built on the Border after the Second World War in Comparative Perspective

By establishing the Yugoslav self-governing socialism, local and federal authorities recognized it was necessary to revitalize the Zagreb city center, but also to build a completely new part of the city, which would embody the properties of new society. In 1961, The Association of the Fighters of People's Liberation War (SUBNOR) has recognized the importance of creating the public monuments of higher quality and during the coming years numerous public sculptures have been erected as a materialization of recent events. Projects were mostly realized in the wider city center and parts north of Sava. However, in designing new microraions in New/South Zagreb, the cultural aspect of a settlement has been neglected. In the absence of public sculpture or any other artistic events, certain institutions, artists and cultural-artistic societies, have organized a series of temporary artistic interventions in public space during the 1970s and erected permanent sculptures, at the end of the 1970s. Thus, public space had become a scene for art interventions, which questioned the relationship between art and life, as well as authoritarian discourse of the city. The presentation seeks to reflect on the cultural, political and economic dimensions of numerous temporary actions and a small number of permanent objects of New Zagreb created during self-governing socialism. In conjunction with this retrospective view, the presentation aims to open-up these artistic interventions to contemporaneous discourse.

Novi Zagreb ; interventions of artists in public space ; public sculptures ; monuments ; (de)materialization of memory in public space

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