resonant phantasmagoria:temporal transcendence
Petar is an architect, urban planner and conceptual thinker exploring the intersection of space, time, and human expression through multi-sensory and transformative experiences. Through the creation of immersive environments and installations, he challenges the conventional narratives of urban development, sustainability, and individuality. He blends materials, lighting, sound, digital media, and interactive technologies to craft spaces that transcend traditional architecture, creating dynamic, evolving environments that respond to the socio-political and environmental forces surrounding them.
Rooted in a critique of the act of demolition and the erosion of meaningful, community-driven spaces, his work seeks to reclaim abandoned zones as realms of creativity and transformation. Resonant Phantasmagoria, a central project, embraces the chaos and energy of forgotten spaces, inviting participants to engage in a meditative process that reveals hidden potentials, overlapping realities, and alternative forms of enjoyment.
Rejecting the linear progression of time and the capitalist-driven model of development, his practice reflects a vision of the future where spaces, materials, and individual expression are liberated from control, offering new ways of experiencing and reshaping our shared environments. Through his work, he explores the complexities of time, memory, and collective consciousness, forging a path towards a more sustainable, imaginative, and self-expressive future.
I am suspending the known - discovering new ways of experiencing space in abandoned contexts.This began as my master’s thesis, rethinking ruins as materialised thoughts on identity and change.Based on the hotel Haludovo in Croatia, it questions how we confront the past by erasing infrastructure for tourist abandonment across ex-YU countries.An ideological identity that the system's power imposes on society falsifies reality while putting people in a survival mode of pseudo-life, a crisis of identity.If we are trying to act out our ideas, volitions, sensations and feelings through triggering desires and constructing our realities, we are becoming disciplining agents with the sense of self-realisation.Once a spectacularly enriched hotel, but today a place of ruins has the potential for space for meditation of the 22nd century -radical imagination- where we explore the remnants of ruins and contemplate their significance.Radical imagination directs our attention to the intricate details, challenges the notion of architecture as a physical layer; a mechanism of manipulation with the productive potential of a transformative act. Architecture is a constantly changing mechanism that enables to change of social relations via its creation and adaptation to the time that exists. Today, perceived as a ruin, the hotel serves as a base for celebrating something unusual and abnormal - politically incorrect.Those malfunctions as part of the built environment affect the human body by letting it explore abnormal functions of architectural devices, loss of orientation and letting the imagination be the creator of new realities.Celebrating togetherness through temporal transcendence would become an essential part of architectural form, provoking the thought of relation to the abandoned places - what to do with them if renovating and restoring them to their original state is not the solution. Architecture is a frame. What is the human condition?