History of Contemporaneity

Considering that in infrastructural, demographic, and economic aspects the island of Korčula is one of the most developed islands in Croatia, as one of the causes (or consequences) of that positioning we should pinpoint its relatively well-developed industrial and contemporary art and cultural production that grew progressively in the second half of the 20th Ct and included international progressive art and political practitioners. Scientific and artistic research comprises the interdisciplinary approach by cultural anthropologists, ethnologists, curators, artists, conservationists, archivists, and other experts, as well as the local community, institutions, citizens’ associations, and initiatives, all of which were presented in the series of scientific conferences, texts, public lectures and art projects.

Grey) (area points to good practices of the history of the 20th Ct and the particularities of the island of Korčula that could be taken as a model for the sustainable development of an island and beyond.

The multi-annual scientific and research-based projects are:
- The Cinematography of the Adriatic Islands
- Industrial Heritage of the island of Korčula
- International Artists Meetings (Vela Luka 1968 - 1972)
- Bernardo Bernardi, architecture

Next to separate scientific and research-based project on the history of contemporaneity on the island of Korčula, the grey) (area presented for the first time in Korčula town both the film work of Mihovil Pansini, who was born in Korčula and the work by a pioneer of contemporary music Silvio Foretić, whose family ties are strongly intertwined with Korčula town.

Grey) (area also initiated and presented the artistic practices connected to the Korčula Summer School of philosophy and sociology. The circle of critical thinkers around the Korčula Summer School and magazine Praxis developed a singular direction of humanist Marxism and social analysis in the context of the non-aligned Yugoslavia. Together with the Korčula Summer School, the magazine was the active locus for the exchange of critical viewpoints from East and West in the period 1963 – 1974.

This projects offers some new models for recognition and evaluating cultural and artistic heritage, focused primarily on detecting, recognizing, articulating, and re-evaluating diverse aspects of the intangible artistic and cultural heritage of the island of Korčula in the 20th Ct, progressing beyond the scope of the island.