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Syndicate: MoneyNations/xYu Radio Workshop


SpachLabor
borders/language/identity
27. 10.- 31. 10. 1998


The media workshop is organised in the framework of the
MoneyNations@access project in co-operation with Media Aid
Ex-Yugoslavia, Laboratory k3000 and â??klipp&klangâ?? radio courses
(Zurich).

The MoneyNations@access project of the Shedhalle Zurich makes the real
effects of the current European policy of identity and disassociation a
central theme and investigates them. Various contributions by artists
and theorists will be presented in an exhibition, distributed via a
video and internet communication net, and published in the form of a
newspaper. A three-day conference entitled â??Border Economiesâ?? will also
take place.

The co-operation between Shedhalle Zurich and various other
organisations, such as Medien Hilfe Ex- Jugoslawien, Laboratory k3000
and level ltd., brought about the idea of organising a workshop with
media professionals from former Yugoslavia, as an integral part of
MoneyNations@access. It is our belief that a co-operation between media
professionals from East and West is very important, particularly with
regard to a project like MoneyNations@access and its content.

The workshop will take place from 27th to 31st Oct. 1998, after the
opening and the three-day MoneyNations@access conference
(23th/24./25.Oct.). Starting at 2 p.m. each day in the premises of
Laboratory k3000 in Zurich, the workshop will aim at joint productions
of radio programs and videos. It will be open to an inner circle of
professional media producers.

Each day at 8 p.m., the invited groups will have the opportunity to
present themselves and their work to a wider audience. These events will
be facilitated by Nena Skopljanac from Media Aid Ex-Yugoslavia, and
there will be a bar provided at the end.

Although Western-European national policies do in fact promote the
perspective of one singular border between the East and the West of
Europe, weâ??ll attempt to investigate the significance of European
borders beyond their primary political purpose. Exclusions and
inclusions of ethnic groups, other groups or individuals also happen
within national territories themselves. This is one of the reasons why
weâ??ll try to find a way to present the confrontations within Europe with
concepts that have remained strange or foreign. People and groups will
report about their becoming strangers in their own country or about
difficulties to adapt in foreign regions.

In this context weâ??ll concentrate on the following questions: How can
cultural differences come into existence in the first place? How are
they produced or made? What is the significance of political propaganda,
biological assumptions, racism, or practices of self-definition with
regard to the production of popular dualisms like â??East/Westâ??,
â??Serbian/Croatianâ??, â??subversive culture/state cultureâ?? etc.? What is the
function of language as an instrument of mutual exclusion by nation
states (what makes dialects turn into national languages, as for
instance in the case of former Yugoslavia)?

Before this background weâ??d like to invite the following groups and
their representatives to take part in the conference from 23rd to 25th
Oct. 98, and in the media workshop which follows from 27th to 31st Oct.
98 at Laboratory k3000.

For the radio workshop in co-operation with Level Ltd and Laboratory
k3000: Oliver Sertic (Attak's media group, Zagreb, Croatia); Alenka
Pirman, Marko Peljhan (Ljudmila, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Monika Zivojinovic
(Radio Boom 93, Pozarevac, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia), Drazen Pantic (Radio
B92, Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia), and representatives of Radio Zid,
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

For the video workshop in co-operation with Shedhalle Zurich: Zelimir
Zilnik (Terra Film, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, FR Yugoslavia), representatives
of Media Project Pristina, Pristina, Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia, and Mina
Vuletic (Radio B92, Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia).