illuminovision
Illuminovision is a project inspired by Šibenik, one of the first cities in the world where electrical energy power supply was established. This almost anegdotal fact is virtually non-existent in the dominant narrative of the city, which is now representing itself exclusively as a city of medieval heritage, neglecting the recent history of its modernization. The intention of Illuminovision is to incite innovative processes of articulation of light in public space via the format of the festival but also via the interdisciplinary collaboration of various professions which tackle our relation to the environment, in this case environment being the unique city of Šibenik.
Illuminovision 2019 :: Interstitia. See here
Illuminovision 2018: Sights of the Post-industrial and Post-legalized City
This program emerged from the outcomes of the Illuminovision 2017, where we presented slow-light concept by the Austrian artist Siegrun Appelt as an antithesis of luxurious light festivals, with the goal to emphasize the every day illumination, as well as the light installation by Ivan Marušić Klif whereby we pinpointed the erasure of cinemas as a metaphor of erasure of certain models of social relations (the only place in Šibenik for collective social cinematic experience in a technically proper surrounding is in a shopping mall, a place which reduces the citizens to consumers).
What about the production? As the cinematic infrastructure followed the industrialization of Šibenik, that is how in the last two decades the erasure of that infrastructure follows de-industrialization. De-industrialized city areas do not testify only about the developmental ideologems of the city, but still represent its unique potential. Industrialization is primary the signifier for the growth of factory halls and massive (and very often environmentally detrimental) plants, but the politics which built factories also built the whole settlements in which many workers and their families found their homes: from Baldekin over the first skyscrapers in Dalmatia to the settlement Vidici (Sights), the most eastern part of Šibenik.
The events in July of 2018 comprise:
Lecture and night city walk with the architect Armina Pilav
"Rotterdam 2040", film screening
Art installation in Šibenik's public space by art collective Lovers
In the first phase of the Illuminovision project in 2017, within the symposium "Illuminovision-Strategies of Light", the question we were posing was also a political one: what do we highlight, which segments of the city are accentuated, why and how. In addition, the syposium also dealt with a phenomenon that is directly related to electrification and that is the emergence of the cinematic city. In cooperation with the local group of architects gathered around SOBA DAŠ - Society of Šibenik Architects, we mapped the cinemas, notified their position in the urban fabric of Šibenik and their transformation.
The symposium "Illuminovision - Strategies of Light" took place in Šibenik July 1-2, 2017. The lecturers were: Katrina Petter (Public Art Lower Austria), Siegrun Appelt, Sanja Horvatincic from the Institute for Art History from Zagreb and the members of SOBA DAŠ - Society of Architects Sibenik.
Program of the symposium here
The second phase of Illuminovision 2017 took place on November 8, 2017: Installation by the artist Ivan Marušić Klif
