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Europoly - Past, Present and Future of Balkan Migrations to Central and Western Europe
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BELGRADE

6-7 April

ZAGREB

2-3 May

SARAJEVO

9-11November

VIENNA

December

Europoly

“Europoly – Past, Present and Future of Balkan Migrations to Central and Western Europe” is a multidisciplinary project that tackles the important issue of migrations from the Balkan region to the countries of Central and Western Europe, starting from the huge influx of economic migrants (so-called Gastarbeiters) in the 1960’s, to the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990’s that resulted in tens of thousands of war refugees, to the constant brain drain that all post-Yugoslav countries are experiencing, to the most recent refugee crisis. The mission of the project is to investigate and map the rich social, cultural and artistic impact this long-drawn-out migratory wave has left on both the region of the Western Balkans as well as on the receiving countries. The conferences will take place in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb and Vienna throughout 2017. Each conference would be a series of two day events that would include round-table discussions, readings, film projections, exhibitions and will present a wide array of artists, writers, theoreticians, curators and film directors.

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Europoly – the European Identity Trading Game” presents the central, hands-on, plug-in activity to the regional conferences’ articulation of the topic . It has been developed by the conceptual artist Dejan Kaluđerović. It is a fully functioning portable social game created in the form of an industrial product of a social game similar to “Monopoly”, developed within the contexts of real life, the art system and consumer society. In this way,, “Europoly” recognises the blurred boundaries between ‘artwork’ and ‘the sellable product’ in Western consumer society.

This piece of work is questioning the position of immigrants in the EU, as well as the idea of the EU. Non-EU citizens working in the EU have been photographed and featured in “Europoly” along with their professions. Luck, to a great extent, determines the possible rise or fall of the ’players’ who wish to become part of the new European cultural fabric.

The European Union defines European identity as something that is provided only within the Union and only to European Union citizens, although Europe does not end at the borders of the Union. However, the EU does have the power to define identity, the power to set up the rules of a game others have to join. The consumer society of the European Union has created a rule, that ’everything is for sale’, including even notions of identity.

Through the prism of the modern world, the game of Monopoly – a game not chosen by chance, because MONOPOLY means having power over something or someone – has been transformed into a Kafkaesque world of complex rules/laws of the ’game’, which today’s European Union offers to all ’players’ as the only possibility, the only reality.

Europoly – The European Union Identity Trading Game, installation view, Schauspielhaus Bar, Vienna

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