From Care to Cure and Back
The DAI-SAI From care to cure and back programme explores critical architectural heritage, depletion of human communities in relation to abandoned architecture, and encourages transformation of both material and immaterial environments from “spaces of a common disease” into places of “common healing”. The LINA fellows Rebeka Bratož Gornik and Joaquin Mora expand their knowledge in investigations of architecture with pioneering imagination of sociality and spatiality through the medium of film.
The focus of the research is The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons, an architectural masterpiece built in 1965 near Makarska, by the enigmatic Croatian architect Rikard Marasović, and communities around it. The fellows are working with experts in film and architecture (critics, historians, curators) and local communities (artistic organisations, ex-employees of the resort, inhabitants), proceeding to practical work of audio-visual documentation “with others” (DIWO), both in the site of the resort (Makarska), and in Pula (DAI-SAI headquarters), Croatia. The existing knowledge is being implemented with the experimental practice of documenting and transmedial storytelling, the emphasis being put on redefining collectivity, subjectivity, performativity and materiality. The activity contributes to more sustainable architectural practices, and the local communities, in creation of a kaleidoscope of fiction about the society that created the health resort, and the imaginable new collectivity, which will govern it in futurity, by transformation of all stages of “architecture’s illness” – with great affection and empathy.
The meeting in Pula, 27-29 April, 2023, brings the selected LINA creatives together with curators, film critics and architecture historians, together with the art organization mART from Makarska into a “performative workshop” to reflect on the processual filming exercise of documenting The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons in Krvavica, near Makarska, executed in March, 2023.
Programme
Thursday 27 April, 19:00, DAI-SAI Gallery: Presentations and discussions on publishing
Friday 28 April, 10:00: Architecture guided tours
Friday 28 April, 16:00, DAI-SAI Gallery: Performative lectures, presentations, film screenings
Saturday 29 April, 10:00, DAI-SAI Gallery: Collective reflections
View video of performative lectures
View video of architecture guided tours
Collaboration with LINA fellows
Aside from their explorations of the The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons, their work with mentors, and their participation at the Pula event, Rebeka and Joaquin have produced videos.
SOUND THAT REMAINS
A film by Joaquin Mora
The film Sound That Remains by Joaquín Mora aims at manifold interpretations of architectural space, that could be called as a sound identity of a place. The author investigates, documents and redefines relationships between contemporary subjects and sounds of the former Children’s Maritime Health Resort. The video is composed in layers, from the sound and visual recordings of the building in its current state, empty and abandoned, to the confrontation of sounds in choreography with members of the local female choir Tempet.
The project was carried out by the Chilean director Joaquin Mora, who over the years has been exploring the relationship of inhabitants with the spaces around them. The search in his work ranges from documentary to experimental experiences with sound and performance. The project Sound that remains is an immersive invitation to the memory that these buildings keep, who are witnesses of our personal and collective history.
Video interview with Joaquin on his concept, directors: Ana Dana Beroš and Matija Kralj Štefanić, music: Nastja Kralj Štefanić
TIMECAPSULE
A film by Rebeka Bratož Gornik
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Rebeka Bratož Gornik’s short film Timecapsule deals with the enigmatic architect Rikard Marasović. His voice is an omnivoice of the Krvavica community, architects, researchers, local historian and former employees, while his character is played by a prominent local actor. The narration presents and questions the position of architect's authority in describing the past, present and possible future state of the building, as well as the communities around it.
Rebeka Bratož Gornik is an independent film director focused on research and experimental documentary films about architecture, space, and society. As a LINA fellow, she is working on a project Re-Function, which is a concept that deals with the question of how to create awareness of the environment and strengthen responsibility towards the community through film. She predominantly deals with modernist and abandoned architecture while seeking connections between community, personal stories, historical context, and more inclusive development of
the built environment in the future.
Video interview with Rebeka on her concept, directors: Ana Dana Beroš and Matija Kralj Štefanić, music: Nastja Kralj Štefanić
Invited experts
Ana Dana Beroš, Intermundia, Zagreb
Breda Bizjak, DAI-SAI, Pula
Emil Jurcan, DAI-SAI, Pula
Matija Kralj Štefanić, Videodrom, Zagreb
Performative lectures:
Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
PARALLEL TRACKS OF THE ARCHITECT RIKARD MARASOVIĆ –A SKETCH FOR BIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER EXPLORATION (video)
Boštjan Bugarič, Architectuul, Koper/Berlin
NATURE AS A SUBJECT (video)
Tina Divić, Dijana Jelić Škorlić, mART, Makarska
TO CURE A PLACE OF CARE (video)
Sonja Leboš, UIII, Zagreb
HUMAN AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF A PLACE: KRVAVICA – ARCHITECTURE THAT HEALS (video)
Alessio Rosati, MAXXI, Rome
BOYS DON’T RUN AWAY (video)
Mika Savela, Selim Projects, Helsinki
SANATORIUM SPECTRES – EXPERIMENTS IN GENERATING (PETTY) ARCHIVAL DRAMA (video)
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