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Syndicate: MoneyNations/xYu Radio Workshop |
SpachLabor borders/language/identity 27. 10.- 31. 10. 1998 The media workshop is organised in the framework of the MoneyNations@access project in co-operation with Media Aid Ex-Yugoslavia, Laboratory k3000 and â??klipp&klangâ?? radio courses (Zurich). The MoneyNations@access project of the Shedhalle Zurich makes the real effects of the current European policy of identity and disassociation a central theme and investigates them. Various contributions by artists and theorists will be presented in an exhibition, distributed via a video and internet communication net, and published in the form of a newspaper. A three-day conference entitled â??Border Economiesâ?? will also take place. The co-operation between Shedhalle Zurich and various other organisations, such as Medien Hilfe Ex- Jugoslawien, Laboratory k3000 and level ltd., brought about the idea of organising a workshop with media professionals from former Yugoslavia, as an integral part of MoneyNations@access. It is our belief that a co-operation between media professionals from East and West is very important, particularly with regard to a project like MoneyNations@access and its content. The workshop will take place from 27th to 31st Oct. 1998, after the opening and the three-day MoneyNations@access conference (23th/24./25.Oct.). Starting at 2 p.m. each day in the premises of Laboratory k3000 in Zurich, the workshop will aim at joint productions of radio programs and videos. It will be open to an inner circle of professional media producers. Each day at 8 p.m., the invited groups will have the opportunity to present themselves and their work to a wider audience. These events will be facilitated by Nena Skopljanac from Media Aid Ex-Yugoslavia, and there will be a bar provided at the end. Although Western-European national policies do in fact promote the perspective of one singular border between the East and the West of Europe, weâ??ll attempt to investigate the significance of European borders beyond their primary political purpose. Exclusions and inclusions of ethnic groups, other groups or individuals also happen within national territories themselves. This is one of the reasons why weâ??ll try to find a way to present the confrontations within Europe with concepts that have remained strange or foreign. People and groups will report about their becoming strangers in their own country or about difficulties to adapt in foreign regions. In this context weâ??ll concentrate on the following questions: How can cultural differences come into existence in the first place? How are they produced or made? What is the significance of political propaganda, biological assumptions, racism, or practices of self-definition with regard to the production of popular dualisms like â??East/Westâ??, â??Serbian/Croatianâ??, â??subversive culture/state cultureâ?? etc.? What is the function of language as an instrument of mutual exclusion by nation states (what makes dialects turn into national languages, as for instance in the case of former Yugoslavia)? Before this background weâ??d like to invite the following groups and their representatives to take part in the conference from 23rd to 25th Oct. 98, and in the media workshop which follows from 27th to 31st Oct. 98 at Laboratory k3000. For the radio workshop in co-operation with Level Ltd and Laboratory k3000: Oliver Sertic (Attak's media group, Zagreb, Croatia); Alenka Pirman, Marko Peljhan (Ljudmila, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Monika Zivojinovic (Radio Boom 93, Pozarevac, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia), Drazen Pantic (Radio B92, Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia), and representatives of Radio Zid, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. For the video workshop in co-operation with Shedhalle Zurich: Zelimir Zilnik (Terra Film, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, FR Yugoslavia), representatives of Media Project Pristina, Pristina, Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia, and Mina Vuletic (Radio B92, Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia).