tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3049071027119692182024-02-08T03:57:00.536-08:00Michael Dax Iacovone Video ProjectsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304907102711969218.post-57577789785546426842010-10-28T15:36:00.000-07:002010-10-28T15:52:30.512-07:00Lana's Walk<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16292312" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16292312">Lana's Walk</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2748860">Michael Dax Iacovone</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br />Lana Cmajcanin lived in Sarajevo during the siege of the city from 1992 to 1996. This walk represents the space she was confined to during that time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304907102711969218.post-27922313729764372012010-10-28T12:18:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:14:25.113-07:00Mostar<div><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16285703" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16285703">Mostar</a> from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.mikedax.com">Michael Dax Iacovone</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">This video was made in collaboration with Amila Puzic and Anja Bogojević in the city of Mostar in Bosnia Herzegovina. They live in Mostar and run the <a href="http://artindicities.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Art in Divided Cities Project</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">The city of Mostar is divided by the Boulevard that runs through the middle of town. On one side the Croatians live and on the other side the Bosnians live. As an outsider, it is difficult to<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.9722px; "> see a </span></span>difference. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">The following explanation comes from the Art in Divided Cities Project:</span></div><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="PowerPoint.Slide"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft PowerPoint 2008"> <!--StartFragment--> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">As a fact, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Mostar</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span"> has been a divided city for the last decade and there are no indicators of change in the near future.<span> </span>The division was brought about by the 90’s war in Yugoslavia and, since then, a street in the centre of the city called the “Boulevard” has functioned as the borderline. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Today, this division is supported by:</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">(1) parallel education systems divided on the national basis</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">(2) parallel cultural institutions which glorify the nationalist attitudes with their programs </span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">(3) ideologies which changed through the last century and reflected through architecture</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">infrastructure : the divided water supply system and waste management among other</span></span></p> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.5833px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">(4) urban construction works, planned to support and upkeep the city being divided : bridges built to avoid traffic connections between the two parts, street with four traffic lanes in the place of the borderline, etc.)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></div><div><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="PowerPoint.Slide"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft PowerPoint 2008"> <!--StartFragment--> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span">We can argue that the Boulevard has always represented<span> </span>a border – in a form of a barrier to<span> </span>pedestrian movement or as a border between the old and new part of the city – which adapted its functions to different historical contexts, becoming eventually the partitioning line. Urban planning supported this de facto situation, implementing strategies which were sustaining the division. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; "><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15.9722px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">It is important to mention that although the absence of a physical barrier, the city is clearly divided in terms of everyday life. Although there have been attempts to rehabilitate shared spaces, the two communities still live next to each other without interactions. Consensus has so far being reached only in matters regarding the strengthening of urban polarization, discarding any possibility of rehabilitating public spaces.</span></span></p><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="PowerPoint.Slide"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft PowerPoint 2008"> <!--StartFragment--> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left;direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none; punctuation-wrap:hanging"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:+mn-ea;mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs;color:black;mso-color-index:1;mso-font-kerning:12.0pt;language:en-US">
<br /></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304907102711969218.post-6167657665613551452010-07-10T02:34:00.001-07:002010-07-10T02:34:46.093-07:00<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10507326&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10507326&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10507326">Untitled</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2748860">Michael Dax Iacovone</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304907102711969218.post-45185292909300310972010-07-10T02:30:00.000-07:002010-07-10T02:31:42.741-07:00<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10495176&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10495176&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10495176">PHILLYHAMILTONIAN</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2748860">Michael Dax Iacovone</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0