STOLEN FUTURE

Art intervention: Neli Ružić, december 2014

Organisation: The MOTEL TROGIR tim and Slobodne veze / Loose associations

Illumination: MediaRent Split

Video Stolen Future

director: Neli Ružić

sound composition: Ricardo Cortes

camera: Ida Skoko, Darko Škrobonja

editing: Neli Ružić

color correction: Darko Škrobonja

For this intervention I have chosen Motel Trogir Bungalows for two reasons: in order to draw the attention to the fate of abandoned modernist architecture, but also because I´m interested in process of entropy in relation to the spaces that protecting a different future *utopias of modernism in relation to current state of devastation), and in particular the areas that have been invaded by nature. Illuminating bungalows interior, I wanted to achieve the illusion of presence and ceremony, recalling the element of utopia in the context of entropy and degradation. Almost opposite of the current situation of the devastated area, with this intervention I tried to create an illusion of a possible, an alternative to the absurdity of transition "decay strategies" and fraude. SF is therefore, a flash of different scenarios; immateriality of light evokes the past futures and alternative presents.

Neli Ružić

Motel Trogir by one of the leading architect of the socialistic Yugoslavia, Ivan Vitić,1965. as a result of non-transparent privatisation from post socialistic transition of what was once the social property. Today, Motel is in "frozen status" and along with no maintenance it subsequently deteriorates.

"Motel Trogir is not a building, it is a symptom of the space politics (in Dalmatia) and of a disappearance of the social idea as the generative core of urban planning and construction today. Therefore the MOTEL Trogir project strive to open up discussion about the town of Trogir, the problem of shrinking public space and the general crises of sociability." The MOTEL TROGIR tim / Organisation: Slobodne veze / Loose associations