Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art
Prishtina at Supermarket 2011
Filoart, Zelimir Zilnik, Driton
Hajredini, Milica Tomic, Bekim Gllogu, Lulzim Zeqiri, Stacion -
Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Fitore Isufi, Rudina Xhaferi,
Kader Muzaqi, Merita Koci, Flaka Haliti, Driton Selmani, Alban Muja
& Yll Citaku, Shota Bukoshi, Petrit Halilaj, Levizja Vetevendosje!,
Felix Gmelin, Maria Jose-Rojas.
Curatorial by Albert Heta
Supermarket
Art Fair 2011 is the first YES answer delivered to an invitation sent
to Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina to be part of an art fair.
The invitation from Supermarket, the international artist-run art fair,
and Swedish Institute coincided with the next level of our work and it intrigued
us again, not only to continue the observation aiming to see closely
these structures and their aims but this time to further the quest from
the inside and experience the challenge beyond the research.
The
presence of Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina at Supermarket
2011 is manifested through a reproduction of an Exhibition, in its
design and architecture elements, but only with the added layer of this Exhibition
that was the future of The Exhibtion produced in Prishtina.
The
Exhibition was originally shown in the context of The Mobile Archive.
The
Mobile Archive, a project run by The Israeli Center for Digital Art,
was initiated in March 2007 by Eyal Danon, Galit Eilat and Eva
Birkenstock. The Mobile Archive is a portable version of the Israeli
Center for Digital Art, Holon resident archive. Since 2007 The Mobile
Archive travels the world, when each of its host contributes works
to the original collection and send it along in its extended version.
Stacion
- Center for Contemporary Art hosted the Mobile Archive in June 2010.
The
works exhibiting in the exhibition are the Stacion's additions to The Mobile
Archive.
The selection of works, can be an answer to the
following statement: 'The Mobile Archive was invited Stacion - Center
for Contemporary Art Prishtina to a context and a country with no
archival culture or institutions. Works and documentation of events
produced by this scene and this society are lost or made to disappear
for the public context. History as a tool for erasure and
engineering the past for the present power players is a dominant practice
in this country.
What happens with the documentation and work of
an initiative after the institution stops to exist. Is any of the
material of these projects sent to an archive or?
This
project aims to raise this issue in the public level, and initiate the discussion
on existing models of archiving memory, works and events. In my opinion,
video works of contemporary artists form Kosova produced since 1999 are
an important element of the collective production of this society and
an important element of the narrative of this society.'
Stacion
- Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina at Supermarket 2011 is supported
by The Swedish Institute (SI) and DZG.
SUPERMARKET 2011 (FEBRUARY 18-20)