Trieste Contemporanea è lieta di dare informazione del progetto
SMUGGLING ANTHOLOGIES
coordinato dal Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (Croazia)
e che ha come partners l’Idrija Municipal Museum (Slovenia) e il Comitato Trieste Contemporanea (Italia).
Le attività iniziano il 22/24 ottobre con la mostra e il convegno di Rijeka per proseguire il prossimo anno a Trieste e a Idrija.

Smuggling Anthologies /Antologie di contrabando /Antologije krijumčarenja

Coordinator: MMSU Rijeka (Croatia)
Partners: Trieste Contemporanea (Italy), Mestni muzej Idrija (Slovenia)

Curatorial team: Giuliana Carbi /Trst/, Ana Peraica /Split/, Marija Terpin /Idrija/, Sabina Salamon /Rijeka/.

Exhibition: MMSU & Mali salon, 22/10 – 4/ 12/2013, Opening: 7 pm
Krešo Kovačiček & associates: Tobacco Standard, performance
Terminal, Railway bridge, 24/10 at 6 pm

Symposium: Astronomical Centre, Rijeka, October 23 – 24, 2013.

Art kino Croatia, 18. - 20/11 u 8.30 pm, documentaries
18/11 Moja granica, authors: Nadja Velušček i Anja Medved
19/11 Raskršća željezne zavjese, author: Robert Tasnádi
20/11 Ariel, authors: Ivo Deković, Igor Kirin, Nikola Ukić

Exhibition: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Mali salon, 14/11 – 4/12/2013, opening at 7 pm

http://smugglinganthologies.wordpress.com/

We are interested in smuggling as one of the pivotal economic methods of survival globally. Led by the idea of methods, eras and survival of smuggling as illegal economy at the crossroads of the Mediterranean-Alpine, Slavic and Italian culture, the project gathered around thirty participants – artists, historians, ethnologists, smugglers and philosophers who will appear at the exhibition and symposium and share their knowledge and experience about activities in different parts of the continent. The topic of smuggling in Istria. Slovenian Coast and Gulf of Trieste is partly placed in the context of newly formed administrative and political maps and distinction between EU and non-EU, and mostly it refers to the fact that the area until recently witnessed smuggling activities between the sea and the continent, east and west, Yugoslavia and Italy, socialism and capitalism, which surpassed the existing administrative and political conditions and regimes.

The project is envisaged as a combination of a symposium and exhibitions that will take place successively at three locations:

- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, 2013;
- Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, 2014
- Municipal Museum Idrija, 2014

All of the three events take an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, bearing in mind the historical context, personal testimonies and art production.
Smuggling can be read through lost stories, forgotten historical facts, trade, heavy crime, forging historical facts, then and now. In the project we rely precisely on that interpretative charge of smuggling, uniting people’s personal stories and written sources. We will analyse the connection between official and unofficial, written and established versus fluid, emotional and stored in memory.

The project will encompass contemporary art, history, ethnography, cultural heritage and in the sense of the type of material it will comprise documentary, fiction and theoretical interpretation.

List of participants:
Aleksandar Garbin (Croatia)
Anja Medved (Slovenia)
Azra Akšamija (Austria)
Balász Beöthy (Hungary)
Can Sungu (Turkey)
Christiano Berti (Italy)
Društvo Bez granica (Croatia)
Dušan Radovanović (Serbia)
Hassan Abdelghani (Croatia)
Janez Janša, Janez Janša,Janez Janša (Slovenia)
Krešo Kovačiček (Croatia)
Marco Cechet (Italy)
Lorenzo Cianchi and Michele Tajariol (Italy)
Police Museum (Croatia)
Nikola Ukić, Ivo Deković, Igor Kirin (Croatia, Germany)
Robert Tasnádi (Hungary)
Soho Fond (Estonia)
Tanja Vujasinović (Croatia)
Tomislav Brajnović (Croatia)
Victor Lopez Gonzalez (Spain)
Zanny Begg i Oliver Ressler (Austria)

Symposium > 23 – 24/10/ > Astronomical Center, Sveti Križ Hill 3 km from the Rijeka city centre

23/10/

10 am - 01 pm
Dragica Čeč, Smuggling as a way of survival in the Early Modern Age
Cristiano Berti, Black Torino: Iye Omoge and other stories
Franc Trček, (Post)transitional Identity Contraband?
Ana Smokrović, Human Organ Trafficking
Aleksandra Lazar, From grey to pale: reflections on freedom and creativity before and after
accession towards the culture industry

Lunch break 01 - 03 pm

03 - 05 pm
Simona Sušec, The Smuggled Object and the Concept of Commodity
Robert Tasnádi, Crossroads of Iron Curtain
Melita Richter, Memories of living with/beyond the border

24/10/

10 am - 01 pm
Ksenija Šabec, Smuggling in the 20th century through the life stories of Idrija residents
Damir Medved, Rijeka’s Intangible Heritage
Mira Hodnik, Smugglers of mercury ore in the 18th century

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The project continues in 2014 in the Municipal Museum Idrija (Slovenia) and Trieste Contemporanea (Italy)
progetto, Rijeka, Croazia, Slovenia