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Slovenian artist and architect Marjetica
Potrc has been concerned for the past half decade with
the phenomenon of migration. An urban anthropologist, Potrc
investigates the shifting terrain of the contemporary city.
Potrc champions a growing trend of what she terms "individual
initiatives" in urban construction that include such diverse
manifestations as squatter cooperatives, shantytowns, and private
gated communities. Her large-scale architectural projects grow
out of her in-depth research of specific instances of migration.
Potrc's Core Units are small functional buildings designed for
modification and use by settlers, and her House for Travelers
(2000) can be erected as needed by migrants. She is the recipient
of the Guggenheim Museum's 2000 Hugo Boss Prize, and her work
has been shown most recently at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
(2001); Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); and at the
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (1999).
She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1995. Marjetica Potrc lives and
works in Ljubljana and is currently Associate Professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, and this year she is an artist
in residence at the Kuensterlhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
Serbian theorist Branimir Stojanovic and artist
and actress Milica Tomic live
and work together in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Stojanovic holds
a graduate degree in Philosophy from Belgrade University,
and has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy
and psychoanalytic theory. In her work, Tomic highlights the
disjunctures between personal experience and historically
and media constructed images. Tomic's public photographic
installation Erlauf Remembers (2001) sited on roadside billboards
around Erlauf, Austria, continues her interest in the role
of personal responsibility in constructing memory, nationality,
and recording political violence. Her earlier video installation
I am Milica Tomic (1998) is a personal meditation on the historical
and political significance of building identity through language.
Tomic has had solo exhibitions at the Secession, Vienna, Austria
(2000); Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (1999);
and she has created an online project on Cygnet Virtual Gallery
for the company Shiseido
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