Baushtellë:
Balkan Temple
What do you believe in? Ne Cka beson ti? U šta veruješ? Woran glaubst du?
3 Cities (Zurich, Belgrade, Pristina), 3 countries (Kosovo, Serbia, Switzerland), 40 artists, 10 weeks of travelling, 30 public events, 3 main performances
“The origin of the idea is the unfinished building of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the campus of the university in Pristina. Built during the last months of the Kosovo War, it is a memorial of the nationalist, mafia-style embargo of the society in the Balkans. A symbol for the power politics of Milošević and the forced migration of the Serbian minority in Pristina. What do we see when we look at these rocks? What do we believe in?” tobibienz
40 young artists from Serbia, Kosovo and Switzerland travel together for 10 weeks through the cities of Pristina, Belgrade and Zürich. “What do you believe in?” is the essential question of this project. Every artist answers the question in their individual way. Different intellectual approaches and tenets are scrutinised in 30 public events – 10 in every city.
At the end, there were three massive performances, each of them in one of the three cities. Every artist gave utterance of their individual involvement in a performance which lasted 6 hours. 40 works, 40 perspectives, 40 answers to the question: “What do you believe in?”
Project in numbers:
3 performances, 30 public events, 6500 visitors, 40 artists, 3 cities, 10 weeks, immense media echo
Hackershtellë – Art House
As a side project, an old house was renovated and has since then been used as an artistic home.
Link:
Official Website
Media
Before After
Kosova Press
Koha.net
Title:
Baushtellë: Balkan Temple
work by: the people of baushtellë (see detailed credits below)
founding & project lead: Rina Kika & tobibienz
Form: Social plastic, performance, 30 public events, 3 main performances
Duration: 10 weeks of travelling with artists, performance 6 hours
Venue: Rote Fabrik and Fraumünster Zurich (Switzerland), Kalemegdan (Belgrade, Serbia) and construction ruins of the unfinished church on Campus of University Pristina (Kosovo) /
Date: July – October 2015
