Yutopia

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You are cordially invited to YUtopia, our exhibition at the Intercultural Museum in Oslo featuring a new body of multimedia work developed during our research travels throughout the regions of the former Yugoslavia in the period 2007–2012. Today, we remember post WW2 Yugoslavia as a polymorphous piece with shifting roles in an imaginary game of ideological chess—a ghost of a utopian desire that continues to haunt fragmented personal geographies. Taking historical facts apart and putting them back together in a different constellation is to challenge stereotypical points of view constituted on certainty. By re-staging three pre-civil war historical and symbolic events in an open-ended cinematic constellation, we reflect on the dialectic nature of Yugoslavian identity—a “byproduct” of one of the most controversial nation-building experiments in the 20th century

Press Preview: Wednesday, February 6, 11:00 a.m.
Press Release (137KB) / Pressemelding (138KB)

Opening: Thursday, February 7, 6:00 p.m.

Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., February 7 through March 24, 2013. Free admission.

Intercultural Museum
Tøyenbekken 5
0188 Oslo, Norway
http://oslomuseum.no

See you in YUtopia!

Bull.Miletic

Public Lectures

The YUtopia exhibition features a public lecture program with former Yugoslavian writers, thinkers and scholars. All lectures are free of charge and are held in the exhibition on Thursdays.

February 14, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Filmmaking Degree Zero
Pavle Levi, Stanford University

February 28, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
The Clash of Imagination: (Re)Making of Yugoslav Utopia(s)
Branko Dimitrijevic, MoCA Belgrade

March 14, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
The Feary of All the Croats
Dubravka Ugresic, Amsterdam