Lost Highway Expedition Photo Book description

Lost Highway Expedition Photo Book is a selection of captioned photographs contributed by participants in the Lost Highway Expedition, which took place in August 2006 through the Western Balkans including the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania. The photo book contains approximately 240 pages filled with full color images and captions and a brief introduction. The photo book has 27 sections, one for each day of the expedition; each day is represented with 8 pages.

Radication Education site:

Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana is creating a series of events on global Radical Education
http://radical.temp.si
LHE/ELF and Radical Education will be part of NUROPE to be held in Ljubljana October 18-21
http://www.nurope.eu/ljubljana.html

Also, this discussion from the site is particularly interesting:
Between Radical Pedagogic and Participatory Art Practices
A Conversation on Education as a Radical Social (and Aesthetic) Practice with Marta Gregorčič, Bojana Piškur, Marjetica Potrč and Dmitry Vilensky
Adela Železnik
http://radical.temp.si/node/80

The following interview has been published in “Maska” Performing Arts Journal, Winter 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/world/europe/09albania.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

For One Visit, Bush Will Feel Pro-U.S. Glow

Hektor Pustina/Associated Press
Workers in Tirana, Albania, prepared the area in front of the “Pyramid,” a cultural center, for President Bush’s visit Sunday.

By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: June 9, 2007
TIRANA, Albania, June 8 — The highlight of President Bush’s European tour may well be his visit on Sunday to this tiny country, one of the few places left where he can bask in unabashed pro-American sentiment without a protester in sight.

Visar Kryeziu/Associated Press

from Heinrich Boll Foundation website:
http://www.boell.de/en/nav/275.html

European Green Party/EFGPaisbl
4th COUNCIL MEETING
Helsinki, 5-7th May 2006

Adopted resolution

A clear EU Perspective for South-Eastern Europe

The year 2006 is and will be crucial for the future of the South-Eastern European countries:

- the talks on the future status of Kosovo have started,
- the future of Montenegro will be decided in a referendum in May,
- accession negotiations will start after the end of the screening process for Croatia (and maybe also for
Macedonia) and
- talks on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina were opened in January.

European Investment Bank: Urgent Investments for Basic Infrastructure in FRY, 2000
[last page has a map of the list of projects]

Between 1977 and 1990 the Bank awarded 15 loans to SFRY for infrastructural improvements. Eight loans were for the highway, totalling $171,998,502.60 euro. Outstanding arrears of the loans stood in 2000 at 207.3 million. (see p. 8)

War damages were concentrated on transport infrastructure, and estimated at 1 billion euro (however this is uncertain) (p. 12)

Advice: rehabilitation projects should take precedence over new construction (p. 13)

Main road network of 6,500 km including 420 km of full motorway and 220 km of morway with one lane

Call for Photographs from the Expedition for the Photo book

Let's make a photo book of the Lost Highway Expedition. The book will be the second in the series of LHE publications following the LHE Reader and it will be released in October 2007. The photo book will contain approximately 240 pages filled with full color images and captions and a brief introduction. The photo book will be organized as a calendar; day-by-day from the trip, and so will have 26 sections, each represented with 8 pages.

Albania wakes up to green issues
By Nicholas Walton
BBC News, Tirana

The environment is starting to become a political issue in Albania
Albania does not at first sight seem to be fertile ground for environmental politics.

Rubbish bins on city streets and country roads overflow with refuse.

Plastic bags blow around the fields, catching on the branches of trees and on fences.

Dust, diesel and smog choke pedestrians braving the chaotic traffic of Tirana.

Albania is a very poor country, and many citizens seem to have too many other problems to worry about to concentrate on ecology.

Smouldering rubbish

But with fiercely contested mayoral and local elections due in February, environmental issues are firmly on the agenda.

"I think they have started to realise how important environmental issues are," explains Xhemal Mato, the executive director of Eko-Levizja, a grouping of NGOs.

Europe Lost and Found
October 24, 2006, 10 am to 5 pm

Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
International Affairs Building, 15th Floor, Room 1501
420 West 118th St. (corner of Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027

Organized by Consulate of Slovenia and Columbia University with Centrala Foundation for Future Cities and School of Missing Studies

ELF at Columbia, On Nostaligia, lecture by Mitja Velikonja

ELF at Columbia, elevatorELF at Columbia, audienceelF at Columbia, crew

www.chanceprojects.com

"Lost Property represents a selection of things from one days property recovered by the London Transport Lost Property Office. We are easily seduced into acquiring, exchanging and displaying vast quantities of material things. Accumulation, in its broadest sense, is the literal writing-into-being of an individual or culture."

www.blasttheory.co.uk

"I Like Frank took place online at www.ilikefrank.com and on the streets using 3G phones. Players in the real city chatted with players in the virtual city as they searched for the elusive Frank. Whether playing on the streets or logging from around the world, players built relationships, swapped information and tested the possibilities of a new hybrid space.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso, 1983.

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Casey, Edward S. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Berkeley: University of California, 1997.

de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques. On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.

related past curatorial projects and writing:
http://www.project-go-home.com/gohome/project_gohome.html (curator)
http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/2005/flipside/flipside.html (curator)
http://www.kuda.org/continuousart.htm (catalogue contributor)
http://www.normalgroup.net/normalization/ (co-organizer)
http://www.normalgroup.net/ufo-b/ (co-organizer)
http://www.cac.lt/en.php/catalogues/05/2585 (BMW Weird But True book contributor, Vilnius Triennial)

We can all keep in communication with LHE partners in each city through blogs on this site for LHE preparatory work.

Also, their links should be posted for public view and access:

LHE partners:
http://www.pro.ba/
http://www.kuda.org
http://www.mi2.hr
http://www.pro-helvetia.org.mk/presstoexit/
http://www.academy-remix.de/ (missing identity/exit pristina)
http://www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si/skuc2.html
Projektor Podgorica
Tirana