Exposition

Montages/Монтаже/Montaže/Montazhe (last edited: 2023)

Theodore Teichman

About this exposition

In this project, I aim to challenge the stereotyped imaginaries and captivating iconography that renders Ex-Yugoslavia as the balkan other to Western modernity. This project is not merely concerned with an alternate imaginary for the Balkans but to disturb the concept of “moderntity” vis-à-vis modernism(s). I make audio recordings of a moment in time at iconographic sites that have generally been cast as the backdrop to the narratives of socialist modernism and the telegenic collapse in the 1990s. Instead, I put the backdrop in the foreground; I record and montage the room noise, unsettling these stagings with a more distanced—rather than seemingly immediate—auditory image. By playing with the fidelity and proximity of the sound picture, this study unsettles the captivatingly simplified, politically potent imaginaries of “capitalist realism” and “Yugonostalgia” that are staged against—and currently reshape—the “backdrop” of Ex-Yugoslavia’s built environment.
typeresearch exposition
date03/10/2021
last modified28/02/2023
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of Virginia
copyright2019
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1380058/1380101


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id name copyright license
1380060 01 (of 5,000,000) 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380062 Landing(s) - Slavija (Hotel), March 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380064 Inside the Avala Telecommunications Tower, March 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380066 Underneath Terazije Square, Belgrade, 2018 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380068 Yugoslavia, 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380070 Motion Sickness – April 2019 (Zenica) 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380072 Waiting for a train, Sarajevo, 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380074 Anteroom, Zetra Ice Rink, April 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380076 Momo & Uzeir - Elevator Lobby, April 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380078 Holiday Inn, noon, April 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380080 Kosovo’s grains – Fushe Kosova/Kosovo Polje, 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380082 Promenade (Metabolism) – Pristina, March 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380084 Open Space – Pristina Train Station (defunct), Fushe Kosova/Kosovo Polje, 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380086 Projection room (and other spaces) – Grand Hotel, Pristina, March 2019 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380088 Hotel Jugoslavija 1 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380089 Fushe Kosova 1 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380095 Reflections on collection as a whole 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380097 Titles 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380113 Subtitle 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380376 Slavija 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380377 Zenica 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380378 Pristina train station 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380379 Jugoslavij 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380380 Holiday Inn 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380381 Underground 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380382 Und 2 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380383 Grand hotel 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380384 Jug 2 2019 CC BY-NC-ND
1380385 Jug 3 2019 CC BY-NC-ND

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