Azra Svedružić & Demirel Pašalić (HR): Slušaj šume!

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Deforestacija, u ekološkom ali i širem društvenom smislu, je današnji bio-politički krajolik. Posječena šuma je pejzaž pohlepe, a ovo je projekt stvaranja softwarea kojim  pokušavamo sačuvati hardware svijeta. Slušaj šume! je multimedijski događaj, analogan i digitalan, site-specific i virtualan istovremeno, to je umjetničko-ekološka početnica koja nastaje kao reakcija na devastaciju šuma i kao potreba za rasvjetljavanjem problema aktiviranjem i umrežavanjem čime postaje participativna i interaktivna. Projekt će biti izveden kao prostorna signalizacija – “šumarij”-  koji neinvazivno obilježava Trg J.J. Strossmayera i nudi drugačije viđenje parka i njegovih živih i neživih stanovnika – biljaka, povijesti te Josipa Jurja Strossmayera. Na prostornu intervenciju nadovezuje se i iznenadna zvučna kompozicija (uzbuna) koja se svakih pola sata širi parkom i kroz seriju malih diverzija poziva građane da se preko QR koda povežu s web stranicom, da se jave i objave te uključe i postanu čuvari šuma, staništa, prirode. Slušaj šume! inspirira se biljnim svijetom i njegovom, naprednijom, logikom funkcioniranja koja se vodi dijeljenjem informacija i slušanjem drugoga i svoje okoline. Autori će na otvorenju detaljnije predstaviti projekt, lansirati web stranicu te kroz nekoliko diskurzivnih programa tijekom trajanja instalacije pozivati građane na susret, sudjelovanje i međusobnu razmjenu iskustava. U takvoj višeslojnosti projekta odražava se i višeslojnost problema, jer razina je osobna, ali odgovornost zajednička.
www.slusajsume.com

Azra Svedružić vizualna je i multimedijalna umjetnica iz Zagreba gdje je 1996. završila Akademiju likovnih umjetnosti. Svoja djela i projekte do sada je izlagala na 25 izložbi te je sudjelovala i na 23 međunarodna filmska i video festivala u Sloveniji, Njemačkoj, Velikoj Britaniji, SAD, Kanadi, Cipru, Srbiji, Španjolskoj, Grčkoj, Turskoj, Rusiji, Čileu. Od 1998. članica je HDLU-a.

Demirel Pašalić je fotograf, snimatelj, glazbenik i multimedijalni umjetnik iz Zagreba. Studirao je na FAMU na odsjeku za filmskog snimatelja u Pragu. Od 1996. kao suradnik, producent i autor sudjelovao je u stvaranju više desetaka kazališnih predstava, nekoliko igranih i eksperimentalnih filmova koji su prikazani na brojnim međunarodnim filmskim i video festivalima, sudjelovao na vizualnim izložbama, skupnim i samostalnim. Kao glazbenik i skladatelj aktivan je autor i izvođač, te je od 2003. član HGU-a. Od 2007. član je i ULUPUH-a.

Deforestation, in ecological and wider social sense, is today’s bio-political landscape. The cut-down forest is the landscape of greed, and this is a software-creation-project with which we want to guard the world’s hardware. Listen to the forest! is a multimedia event, analogue and digital, site-specific and virtual at the same time; it is an artistic-ecological beginner that arises as a reaction to the devastation of the forests and as a need to make the issue more visible by activating the community, facilitating networking and becoming participatory and interactive. The project will be implemented as a spatial signaling “forestry” that non-invasively marks the Josip Juraj Strossmayer’s Square and offers a different perspective on the park and its living and non-living inhabitants – the plants, its history and Josip Juraj Strossmayer. Spatial intervention is complemented by a sudden sound composition that every half an hour spreads a park-wide alert and through a series of small diversions, invites citizens to connect via the QR code to the project’s website; to come forward and to publish; to get involved and become the guardians of forests, habitats, nature. Listen to the forest! is inspired by the world of plants and their, more progressive, logic of functioning that is led by sharing of information and listening to others and their environment. At the opening, the authors will present the project in more detail, launch a web page and through several discursive programs organised during the period of installation duration invite the citizens to meet, participate and exchange experiences among each other. Multiple layers of the project aim to reflect on the complexity and multidimensionality of the very problem, pointing out that the level is personal, but the responsibility is common. www.slusajsume.com

Azra Svedružić is a visual and multimedia artist from Zagreb where she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. Her works and projects have been exhibited at 25 exhibitions and she has also participated at 23 international film and video festivals in Slovenia, Germany, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Cyprus, Serbia, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Chile. Since 1998, she is a member of HDLU.

Demirel Pašalić is a photographer, cinematographer, musician and multimedia artist from Zagreb. He graduated at FAMU, at Prague Film Engineer’s Department. Since 1996, as an associate, producer and author, he has participated in creating many theatre performances and several feature and experimental films that have been shown at numerous international film and video festivals. His photographs have been shown at exhibitions, both collective and independent. As a musician and composer, he is an active author and performer. He is a member of the Croatian Musicians Union since 2003 and a member of ULUPUH – The Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts since 2007.