Operation:City - Learn, Discuss, Participate
On Saturday, November 22nd, the third Operation:City gets underway. Unlike previous iterations (Operation:City in the former Badel factory in 2005 and Operation:City – in the former Jedinstvo factory in 2007), where cultural programmes have provided an occasion to reclaim and transform abandoned industrial sites into public spaces, the Operation:City 2008 will bring together activists, artists, experts, scholars and general public over issues of spatial and social development of Zagreb and of neoliberal cities in general.
Whom the city belongs to? ||| Privatizing the public? For whose benefit? ||| Who is exhausting the city?
We invite you to join us in search for answers to those questions. Operation:City brings a variety of events providing occasions to learn, discuss and participate.
If in Zagreb over the next three weeks, you’ll come across interventions in the public space by Sanja Iveković, Silvio Vujičić, Slaven Tolj, Dalibor Martinis, Igor Grubić, Siniša Labrović, Marko Pašalić, Mladen Stilinović, Nemanja Cvijanović, Škart, Lina Rica, Kristina Leko and the first Zagreb Complaints Choir. If you encounter them on the streets, join in!
December 4 – 7 the international conference “The Neoliberal Frontline: Urban Struggles in Post-socialist Societies“ takes place in the Social Center “Kino Mosor”. The conference opens with a keynote by Neil Smith (CUNY) and features talks and panels with renowned experts and practitioners, including: Edi Rama (Mayor of Tirana), Keller Easterling (Yale University), Boris Buden, Brian Holmes….
Find out more about the past and the present of urban planning in Zagreb and reconsider what quality urban planning should be by visiting the exhibition “How the City Builds the City“, which will be on display December 2 – 7 in the Social Center “Kino Mosor”.
In the run-up to the conference, on December 3, you can attend the workshop “European Cultural Policy and the Independent Cultural Scene of the Western Balkan Region“ and the round table on “Implosion of the Left, Politics of Culture and Social Experimentation“ organized by the regional initiative of independent cultural actors.
