Workshop II 155.514
Convened by: Jelena Petrović
In the wake of socialist/modernist architectural production, industrial design, and international exhibitions, numerous monumental objects emerged to shape anti-colonial and decolonial aesthetics within the framework of the Non-Aligned Movement, the largest Third World Project of the past. Diverging from a coherent and linear historical narrative, this workshop starts from the present, leveraging the current momentum that (re)produces non-aligned, or more precisely, counter-historical politics of art. It aims to explore the relationship between non-aligned architecture and today’s politically engaged art to reflect the contextual and conceptual significance of non-alignment in present times. Consequently, the workshop will investigate how contemporary art practices approach these monumental non-aligned objects, positioning them as both a dialectical source of emancipation and an ambivalent aspect of decolonial aesthetics. Structured as a pluriversal and participatory practice, this investigation will take the form of a living archive, involving experimentation with visual, audio, and textual formats to research non-aligned objects of art.
Image: ARK D-0 Konjic, Jelena Petrović Personal Archive.