projects

grey) (area program is being developed across four program lines which relate to the aspects of human activities observed through the prism of contemporary art and culture: sustainability, economy and context. We conduct interdisciplinary research of our own and present national, regional and international programs anchored in visual and media arts.

These program lines are:

1. Politics of Green Spaces
2. New Materialisms
3. Critical Tourism and
4. History of Contemporaneity.

1. Politics of Green Spaces
Project critically questions the notion of sustainability. Starting from the conditions of survival on the island and in the global context, the project encompasses the following topics: meanings of basic resources (water and food), and the problem of natural and technologically mediated energy. Researching new models of production and distribution of energy includes low-power, low-tech, DIY and similar appraoches. In the frame of artistic research Politics of Green Spaces the research under the title Wild edible plants on the island of Korčula was conducted, and it will be followed by the research about wild herbs and medical plants on the island. The sound map of the island is published.

2. New Materialisms
Project presents artistic works which relate to economy and materiality of signals and information, questions the nature of information itself as well its medium (be it analogue or digital), and, congruosly, the frontiers of human perception in newly emerged informational, physical and audiovisual surrounding. Materiality of signal often renders itself visible via transition from one media to the other. Together with other grey) (area programs, the series of exhibitions titled New Materialisms investigates the physical nature of thought, the relations betwee immaterial (or intangible) and virtual, and questions the heritage and reflections of concrete visual arts since the 1960s to the present.

3., 4 Critical Tourism and History of Contemporaneity
Via research, artistic projects and lectures about the history of contemporaneity on the island of Korčula, grey) (area also contextualises its own agenda, as well the activities of all other initiatives which stem from contemporary approach. Our own research encompasses the following themes: International Artists Meetings in Vela Luka 1968-1972, Mapping the Cinematography on the Adriatic Islands, and Mapping Industrial Heritage on the Island of Korčula.