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An Australian artist of Croatian heritage Anita Bačić develops her artistic practice from the perspective of the diaspora. Her position between different languages, cultures, and geographies opens up a space for exploring migration, identity, and belonging.
Read more...The artwork MA Moments is shaped like a stone sarcophagus, made from an 80-year-old olive oil container. On this stone sculpture, Simon Beer had two inscriptions engraved by hand: the Latin text ET IN ARCADIA EGO (Even in Arcadia, I am present) facing the entrance and the Italian text SELVA OSCURA (dark forest) on the opposite side.
Read more...Sani Sardelić presenting at the symposium Anatomy of an Island: Heritage as an Arena for Caring for Island Communities and Landscapes.
Read more...Cinematography has a significant role because of the strength and broadness of the inclusiveness of the larger scope of the citizenry into the contemporary arts and culture. The project comprises research of the history of cinemas of the Adriatic islands throughout the 20th Ct. and mapping of all locations on which cinemas functioned permanently or temporarily, as well as insight into the programs of those cinemas. Furthermore, the research includes mapping all films that are connected to the Adriatic islands.
Read more...If we do not count in the traditional production of olive oil and vine, we can list approximately ten industrial plants engaged in the wide spectrum of production: shipbuilding, mounting ship parts, fish and related packaging industry, textile industry, chemical, and electronic industry, etc. Vela Luka is an industrial leader of the island where more than half of the island’s industrial plants find their place. Also, the urban development of Vela Luka in the second half of the 20th Century was mostly marked exactly by the town industry.
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