Naslov
The Memorial Complex of Mrakovica: (In) Visible Shifts in Representational Paradigms

Autori
Kršinić-Lozica, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
VI Congresso AISU. Visibile/Invisibile: percepire la città tra descrizioni e omissioni

Mjesto i datum
Catania, Italija, 12.09.2013. - 14.09.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Mrakovica memorial, WWII, collective memory, resemantization

Sažetak
In the paper analyses transformations of meanings and functions of the memorial complex of Mrakovica on the Kozara Mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina from its opening in 1972 until today. Since the memorial complex is built to commemorate the famous battle of World War II (where a vast number of civilians, including children, were killed or captured and sent do death camps), which during the time of Yugoslavia was the mythic place of the revolutionary victory discourse, it attracted a huge number of visitors. The complex consisting of monument, museum, hotel, sports and recreation centre and restaurants was a place where diverse festivals, commemorations, social and recreational events took place and where a narrative was constructed about the supranational anti- fascist struggle and suffering as the basis of the collective Yugoslav identity. During the war of the 1990s the first transformation of meaning occurred when the memorial complex was partially devastated and left to oblivion. After the war, when writing of national history replaced the supranational collective history of the socialist nations, the second transformation appeared and discourse of the Kozara battle narrowed from national liberation struggle to national narrative. The third resemantization of the Mrakovica memorial complex simultaneously coexists with the second one, and it does not involve physical intervention to the location, but is constructed through visual arts. Recently, various artists began to use images of Yugoslav monuments to national liberation struggle, including the Mrakovica monument, as ready-made objects. Taken from its historical and architectural context, the monument is emptied of any meaning and interpreted solely from an aesthetic point of view as bizarre visual phenomena, a romantic ruin that is not a relic of the past, but of the utopian future.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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