THE TREATMENT OF THE COUNTRY
The
Treatment of the Country project relies on the work Flags and implies
public intervention using language. While working on and
reading The Flags, a new spatial and material fact arose as
a new set of questions. The laid down flags in the Treatment
of the Country project activate the issue of the selected sites
and themes, their visibility or invisibility. The
intervention is conceived as a silent film that aims to articulate certain
suspicions.
The painful narratives filled with trauma are explored
through the individual destinies of the historical text by Miroslav
Krleža, his novel The Flags, and subsequently through the projec The Treatment
of the Country that examines the fate of space and truth, enormous and immense, here and now. The work examines the boundaries
of oblivion and the suspiciously and constantly changing possibilities
of healing and conflict. The
project is based on asking questions.
/ WHAT IS HISTORY / WHAT IS COMMUNITY /
IS COMMUNITY POSSIBLE /
WHAT IS A NICE WORD
/ NICE
WORD - SUSPICIOUS WORD? / POLITICAL CORRECTNES OF
A NICE WORD / WHAT IS HERITAGE / HERITAGE TOMOROW A
specially designed neutral font for the project leaves the option
of entering new connotations, trying not to provoke the existing
space narratives but to create a mere reading capability. The
issues on which the font is based are SURFACE SPACE / ARCHITECTURAL
ELEMENTS OF THE FONT / WHAT DO THE GAPS
MEAN / WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF THE GAPS - IS IT
DISTANCE OR PAUSE / DOES THE MOVEMENT LEAVE THE IMPRESSION
OF PRECISE DIRECTING / TEXT OBJECT - TEXT DISCUSSION
/ QUESTION WITHOUT THE QUESTION MARK Interventions
with Pharmakon are to be made in the area of Vukovar,
Dubrovnik, Kornati, and Rijeka. The topics are: war damage,
privatization, individual tragedy, and the question of identity
(belonging to certain groups).
2016
2016