Mnemosyne Archive
Mnemosyne is a project that commenced in 2009, as a concept of the cultural and urban anthropologist, as well as researcher, Sonja Leboš. During 2010, with the support of the Eu Commision (EU for Citizens - Active European Remembrance), the project "Mnemosyne. Theatre of Memories-Phase 1: Getting Together" comprised a wide scope of activites Belgrade, Zagreb and Prague. The catalog of the project you can find here, and here you can listen the music interpretation by Manja Ristić. In cooperation with the organization of multimedia artists Auropolis and with extraordinary engagement by Manja Ristić and the support of the City of Belgrade and Center for Cultural Decontamination, two theatre performances "Theater of memories" took place in the theater "Vuk Karadžić" and in the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade.
In 2011 in cooperation with Deborah Hustić we organized the workshop Social Dress, where we upcycled uniforms and national and military signage.
In 2012 the extensive research on the work of Bogdan Bogdanović was conducted in Vienna, Zagreb and Belgrade, and the exhibition "Bogdan Bogdanović - the Doomed Architect", the first post mortem exhibition in the Republic of Croatia about this great architect and writer, took place in the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Science in Zagreb.
In 2013 the exhibition "Bogdan Bogdanović-the Doomed Architect" took place in the basement halls of Diocletian palace in Split. For that occasion the exhibition was enriched with additional research results presented in the form of musical interpretation of Bogdan's work, performed by Manja Ristić and Sonja Leboš. Also, Sonja Leboš conducted a workshop in collaboration with Ronald Panza, held a lecture and set up the exhibition "Mnemosyne" in OKC Abrašević in Mostar.
Partisans' Necropolis, Mostar author: B.Bogdanović
In 2014 the exhibition "Bogdan Bogdanović-Ukleti neimar" was shown in Pula in MMC Luka, accompanied by the lecture "About Bogdan Bogdanović and Architecture as Collective Performance" Also, in cooperation with Vizkultura and our programme aRs PUBLICae, we carried out the contest for visualization of Dudik in posters.
In 2015, after local reseach and numerous negotiations with the local community, and with the kind help of City council member, Biljana Gaća, the exhibition "Bogdan Bogdanović-the Doomed Architect" took place in Town Museum Vukovar, accompanied with the lecture by Sonja Leboš. The exhibition in Vukovar was preceded by one organized in the Gallery Waldinger in Osijek, also accompanied with the lecture by Leboš.
In 2016 the exhibition was shown in Dubrovnik, in Dulčić-Masle-Pulitika Gallery, again with the installation by Ivan Marušić Klif.
On the island of Korčula we conducted extensive research with the participation of artists and independent scientists: Manja Ristić, Ronald Panza, Marko Paunović, Milan Rakita i Sonja Leboš. The research took as its subject the islet Vrnik, near Korčula, where the stonemasons who built the Partisans' Necropolis in Mostar came from. In cooperation with grey)(area an improvisation concert took place in Korčula, titled "Stories of Stone and Sound. From Korčula to Mostar and Beyond."
Last, but not least, in 2016 two kick-off meetings took place in Belgrade and Korčula, where the members of the platform Mnemosyne came together to discuss archeologies of the common future.
