A collaborative artwork with master’s students of Scene Architecture and Design

Every family, big or small, has its own stories – about people, who had someone, did something, who came, went away, who loved and dreamed; about the places they built, demolished, preserved and left behind; about the objects they bought, used, received, gave away and put away. Even when they are not there or are kept silent about, stories do not disappear. Some we remember, some were told to us, some we constructed ourselves. And what when all of them – people, places and objects – disappear, when they remain far behind us, or when there is no one left to tell us anything about them? What happens when we have no one left to ask?

Then we look at photos, read letters, sort through boxes, search shelves, open old suitcases and read books we’ve just discovered. This is how the (imagined) Family Stories came about, as a joint artistic work of eight students of the master studies of Scene architecture and design, during the course named Artistic practices of scene design.

Each text was titled after the person the story is about:

Radoje, Katarina Cimbaljević

Bora, Milena Grošin

Meja, Danijela Matović

Desa, Marija Milosavljević

Johan, Andrea Sabo

Dušan, Nikola Stojadinović

Milka, Milica Surutka

Janoš, Marija Varga

MENTORING TEAM:

Tatjana Dadić Dinulović, Daniela Dimitrovska, Vladimir Ilić, Andrija Dinulović

DESIGN AND TECHNICAL REALISATION OF THE PROJECT:

Student authors, with the support of Andrija Dinulović, Vladimir Savić, Mirjana Ris, Andrija Pavlović and Dragana Pilipović

PROJECT PRODUCTION:

Subdepartment of Art and Design

Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad

PHOTOGRAPHY:

From the archives of Milosavljević and Dadić families.