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The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) presents
The Lost Highway Expedition
And Self-Organized Archive

Join the initiators and travelers of the Lost Highway Expedition during two workshops that consider the role of an archive in relationship to an expedition.

MIT archive workshop: Meg, Azra, Anna Neimark, Ulises, Carla Herrera... MIT presentations: Azra Aksamija and Ute Meta Bauer MIT archive workshop, brainstorm: Khadija, archive taxonomy brainstorm MIT archive workshop, folders

Thursday Oct. 26, 2-5 PM, CAVS

Europe Lost and Found
October 24, 2006, 10 am to 5 pm

Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
International Affairs Building, 15th Floor, Room 1501
420 West 118th St. (corner of Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027

Organized by Consulate of Slovenia and Columbia University with Centrala Foundation for Future Cities and School of Missing Studies

ELF at Columbia, On Nostaligia, lecture by Mitja Velikonja

ELF at Columbia, elevator ELF at Columbia, audience elF at Columbia, crew

The recent history of the Balkans in 3 collages of the road of brotherhood and unity, by Artgineering

The recent history of the Balkans in 3 collages of the road of brotherhood and unity, by Artgineering

The recent history of the Balkans in 3 collages of the road of brotherhood and unity, by Artgineering

Here's an email from Maya Balle who kindly attended the conference - which was great, thanks to all involved.
"
> Some quick thoughts and feedback and I am sorry I could not come for the
> archive talks today.
>
> 1. leadership as a new paradigm....want to lead but don't he said...You
> must lead and you are. It is very important that the new society have a new
> paradigm of what leadership can be. Do not back away from this. You are all
> being called and it is important world work.
>
> 2. was it Ivan or Marc who created the values game?Engage the values game
> and see what your core values as a group are!
> the 8 of you do the game and then grow from there. This is a very valuable
> process and could be something that corporations and non-profits hire you/
> and or your folks on the Highway. Look at other ways that you already have

3 things:

1. fairy tale project
During the trip I was struck by the many discussions about language that naturally arose throughout the expedition, by local native speakers as well as visitors to the area. Understandings, misunderstandings, eagerness to understand as well as some reluctances to understand. there are so many dialogues going on, around and about the people, but are they talking to each other?

I also found a beautiful romantic side of the people, which I came to associate with my own love of fairy tales, and the idea that developed over the trip- to tell a fairy tale through putting these languages side by side, can the story still make sense if it is told by many people in similar and differing languages? does the meaning of the story change in its translation?

Due to lack of time and technical difficulties during the trip itself I have decided to go back if possible to collect material for the work. As I have more time I plan to write my own version of a fairy tale combining elements of the fairy tales from each place and tradition. If anyone has any suggestions, titles or material that might be of use to me I would be very grateful for the advice..

It is amazing how you can find such different landscapes a couple of blocks away. Belgrade has lots of different cities mixed up in one.

Image of a building Srdjan noticed on the drive from Podgorica to Sarajevo; we were still in Montenegro at this point.

I recognized it from one of the architecture student group presentations the night before, outside the Karver bookstore.

It is an enormous structure, evidently never completed and abandoned. If you look at the broken windows closely, you can see reflections of the apartment buildings directly across the street.

If anyone knows anything more about this building (why and when it was built, the name of the town it is located in, etc.) it would be great if you could post it below.

Life is a highway
‘Lost Highway Expedition Symposium’ at MIT; ‘Inspired by China’ at the Peabody Essex
By: RANDI HOPKINS

10/17/2006 5:03:10 PM

In August 2006, in a spirit of shared purpose that could serve as a brave new model for political activism, more than 200 artists, architects, and assorted citizens of the world traversed the former Yugoslavia’s former Highway of Brotherhood and Unity (lately referred to as the “Highway of Post Brotherhood and Non Unity”), exploring the cultural and urban landscape of nine cities in the Western Balkans as an experimental, temporary society. The trek, called the “Lost Highway Expedition,” was initiated by two international cultural collaboratives, the School of Missing Studies and Centrala, Foundation for Future Cities, that were interested in seeing what new projects, artworks, architecture, and networks could be generated by sending a swarm of thoughtful folks along a road created in the 1960s to unite the many nationalities that once constituted Yugoslavia.

Hello Everyone
Marc, Ana and me put together an application to European Cultural Foundation on Sept 15th for 3 work sessions in WB to build contents for the "ELF Source Book." The applicant is Centrala, and the project is called Buliding Lost Highway. We thought that it would be good for us to put important portion of the application here. This is to build communcation and transparency within this community/society, by announcing our activities with you all. As most of you know, the idea of worksessions and source book was borne out during LHE, in various meetings that spontaneously occurred in Trana, Podgorica and Sarajevo. Centrala has simply translated these discussions into this application. Since our request to ECF was for 29,650 Euros, it will not be enough to invite everyone in LHE through this budget. We are projecting to cover the participation of Centrala members [8] and representatives from each of LHE cities.

...during the expedition I became aware and interested in animal territories and how they overlap, metaphorically or literally with human territories, especially animals whose movements and spaces have been affected by the influx of cultural political borders. without giving too much weight to animals as victims of conflict, I want rather to think about how the latitudinal ideologicaless movement of animals negates constructions of politicized cultural spaces be they real, imagined or artificial (artists in this sense are kind of like animals!).

I am thinking of making a book or even a filmic work as an atlas of animal perspectives, territories and movement. Animal chronicles which open a portal for thinking otherwise about the existence of animal territories and when they overlap or discord with human territories and the disspapearance of animal territories altogether.

For other curious streetlids prints on t-shirts of the WB cities, here there are other variations of them.
See and discover. Contact me if you're interested to have one!

Kukes 1973, Tirana Rubberskin, Novi Sad Vodovod Skopje, Stil Ljubljana
Radiator Zrjenanin Broken lid, Novi Sad Cityheraldic Beograd[img_assist|nid=886|title=Frottage steelman, Ljublj

There will be this Conference on 'Globalization, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans and its Regional Context' in Belgrade on September 28 – 30, 2006.
www.consultingpartner.biz/asn/eng/index-eng.html

I found this webpage...but sorry only in Italian:
www.osservatoriobalcani.org/

The City as a Playground(Calciare la Città)

I Giu
II Lai
III Pao
IV Pil
… ……

LHE now has a soccer team. It all started in Sarajevo when walking down from Kapa Hill to Bascarsija; somebody kicked a stone and the game happened automatically. We all took positions and passed the stone around while running downhill towards our last dance in the Western Balkans. The match was interrupted abruptly when we entered the Underground bar but we agreed to continue playing in Rome.

A few days later we initiated the LHE squadra. Our first mission was to find a ball and uniforms for the team. Dressed up in green maglias, we wandered the streets of Rome, following the erratic course of the ball and generating unexpected encounters. We played in the Quirinale, the fruit market, Piazza Navona, Vittorio Emanuele, the Museo dell'Ara Pacis, and the Colosseo, challenging the city to participate in our game. We found opponents of exquisite technique and unforgettable enthusiasm. Everywhere we searched for new spots to play ball, turning the city into a playground and testing the limits established by its authorities.

Ivan Kucina, arhitekta, docent, član Upravnog odbora Društva arhitekata Beograda i Saveta Oktobarskog salona, nažalost mnogo je poznatiji u inostranstvu nego u rodnom Beogradu. Naime, ako kliknete Google, pretraživača na kompjuteru, dobićete nekolicinu stranica o akcijama i projektima u kojima je učestvovao Kucina kako u inostranstvu tako i u sopstvenoj domovini. Slična je situacija i sa domaćim pretraživačem Krstaricom.

Kucina je član i Stealth grupe iz Roterdama i School of Missing Studies iz Njujorka. Veoma je duhovita skraćenica posljednje odrednice iz Njujorka, jer Kucina i kolege koje rade sa njim jednostvano kažu SMS. SMS u javnoj mobilnoj komunikaciji podrazumeva brzu poruku. U arhitekturi je teško imati brze poruke, ali nije teško imati brze ideje koje komuniciraju sa sličnim idejama koje se rađaju na drugim mestima, nebitno npr. da li je u pitanju npr. Brazil ili Holandija ili Srbija. Zajedno sa Kucinom rade Ana Đokić, Srđan Jovanovic Vajs, a članovi beogradske grupe su između ostalih su npr. Marijetica Potrč, Azra Akšamija, Katrin Karl, kao i drugi stranci. Istine radi, na njihovom poslednjem projektu koji govori o produkciji novih umetničkih radova u beogradskim predgrađima i traje već pet godina učestvovalo je preko 300 ljudi. Zajedno sa drugima iz sveta, Kucina je promivisao u julu i avgustu ove godine projekat bliskosti i specifičnosti južnoslavenskog prostora - Zagreb, Beograd, Ljubljana, Podgorica, Priština, Sarajevo, Skoplje, Tirana. U Beogradu Kucina je predstavio vožnju tramvajem 7, kao i davno zaboravljeno tursko kupatilo. Ivan Kucina jedan je od autora platforme Evropa lost end faund, koji je podeljen na tri velike tematske celine: balkanizacija koja će se realizovati ove i sledeće godine, zatim evropeizacija narednih, pa na kraju i mapiranje budućnosti u 2008. i 2009. godini. Dobro je znati da Kucina i njegova grupa gotovo uvek svoje ideje ostvaruju ne tražeći pomoć države, iako je ovaj strasni umetnik dobitnik brojnih prestižnih nagrada kako u zemlji tako i u inostranstvu. Ivan Kucina smatra da Beograd ima mnogo više potencijala, da ga u svetu poštuju kao grad tradicije, modernosti i otvorenosti i da se treba suprotstaviti prisutnim mišljenjima na zapadu da je npr. Beograd danas grad poročne zabave. Ivan Kucina spada u one beogradske intelektualce koji svakako nemaju ni najmanje problema da otvaraju kapije Srbije svetu, kao što također nema problem sa puštanjem dobrih ideja iz sveta kroz te iste kapije - vrata.

listen to audio at
es%20On%20the%20Lost%20Balkan%20Highway.mp3...
from right to left:
dragan protic [skart], zoran pantelic [kuda.org] and srdjan jovanovic weiss [nao/sms]

To buid a book using this drupal is really easy. Here I try to explain how to do it.

By the moment you can take a look at the book-example I did about some of the contents under the keyword "Sarajevo"
Books are listed here: europelostandfound.net/book

When you are reading an article (after clicking the title of the article in the list af articles), just under the title, you will see 2 tabs: view and outline, this option allow to add this article into a book.

kisses