http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/world/europe/11train.html

By NICHOLAS KULISH
Published: January 10, 2010
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The siege of Sarajevo had just begun the last time Vera Bagur, now 68, took the famous train line from Sarajevo to Belgrade. It was one of the few physical links that bound Muslims, Serbs and Croats.

Lala Tomljanovic and Vera Bagur, both 68, who share an apartment in Sarajevo, rode the train from Sarajevo to Belgrade for the first time in 18 years. More Photos

That unity was cracking into violence as she peered, against the conductor’s orders, out the window as tanks rolled past in the dry, unpicked cornfields.

“That was the time I realized it was going to be serious,” she said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jul/25/belgrade-music-serbia-gypsy-techno?page=2

Dancing on the Danube
Belgrade's clubs offer everything from Gypsy folk to Balkan bling, but whichever one you end up in, you're guaranteed a good time
Garth Cartwright
The Guardian, Saturday 25 July 2009
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Pushing the boat out ... Belgrade's waterways are home to cafes, restaurants and clubs on floating rafts called splavovi. Photograph: Image Source/Corbis

reading: Maria Todorova: History of the Term Balkanization, from Imagining the Balkans, chapter I

Goldsworty: Balkanization, from Balkan as Metaphor, MIT Press

reading: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss: Meanings of Balkanization

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss_On Positive Aspects of Balkanization: Distinction

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Design
Seminar: Fall 2008

Title: Balkanization: from Metaphor of War to Shaping of Cities
Topic: Agents of Urban Distinction
With: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

A critical review of the Lost Highway Expedition appeared in the Central & European Review, written by Antonia Young. The review can be accessed here: http://spaces.brad.ac.uk:8080/display/ssishistoryjournal/Volume+2,+2008
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"How Soon is Now?", an exercise to imagine our provisional futures, brought together 10 cultural practitioners from 10 organisations across the so called Western Balkans - or as group rather prefers Untitled region - for a speculative imagination of their context and practices ten years from now, in the year 2018.

With the assumption that all (individuals and organizations) invited have developed over the last decade specific skills and qualities that stretch the possibilities of their present situation, we went into a collective brainstorm where will we be when/if the transition in these societies is over.

Edi Muka at HSiN, LjubljanaParticipants HSiN, LjubljanaAt Julija, Ljubljana: Albert Heta, Yane Calovski, Nebojsa MilikicTomislav Medak and participants at HSiN, LjubljanaDiscussion at HSiN, Ljubljana: Tomislav Medak, Davor Miskovic, Peter Lang, Ana Vujanovic, Alenka Gregoric, Antonia Majaca

Some images from the workshop session in Skuc Gallery on 12 May 2008.

NoPF - audienceNoPF - monument: Site for David Maljkovic's work "Scenes for New Heritage"NoPF - museum-garage: Alenka Gregoric on provisional museumsNoPF - empty lot: Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen (STEALTH.unlimited) on project "Open Futures, still here to be claimed"NoPF - parking: Insert from documentary "Pretty Dyana, gypsy recycling saga", by Boris Mitic[img_assist|nid=1033|title=NoPF - roof extensions|desc=Dubravka Sekuli

As a part of "Happening" (http://happening.nai.nl/en), a two months program at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam a full evening program on the topic of provisional future is set-up on Saturday 19 April 2008, at 20.00

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COME AND VISIT the Provisional Future. Join in and observe, participate, discuss, relax, take notes and look around. It’s like a real city!

No one thinks the future will be shiny and rosy, but what will the future cities look like? We have gone to some of the most significant places in the new Europe to see further into the future then many have yet been able to do!

Together we will walk into the unknown, the fantastic, the commonplace!

Monday, 12 May 2008, 15.00 – 19:00h at Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana

Imagine 10 years from now - year 2018. You are still a cultural practitioner, or maybe not. What are you busy with? Where are you located, does your organization still have the same address as in 2008? What is your network?  Where do your resources come from (what is your economy) and in what kind of cultural climate is your country/city? How local is your scene and with whom are you (not) cooperating? Are you busy with these issues at all?

A nation's account of it's own history as a socio-political tool for identity engineering. Comparative case studies of the revisions of history text books in countries derived from the Yugoslavian ex-federation and the European Union.

http://www.irational.org/vahida/history/

Radical Education discussing alternative education with Mehmet Behluli and Dren Maliqi of the School of Missing Identity and Rizoma / Prishtina, Kosovo

Radical Education (R.E.): What was the context in which the School of Missing Identity was initiated?

Mehmet Behluli (M.B.): We must look at the former Yugoslav territory in its cultural and also in its political meaning. As you know, Kosovo was very underdeveloped in that context and it was a society with a strong patriarchal way of thinking, as well as a closed one. In fact, only Kosovo was a big problem as regards integration into that Yugoslav society. Probably also because of the language, as our language is completely different from the other, Slavic, languages.

A call out to anyone here in Sarajevo who I met or didn't get to meet during the expedition, I'm here for 2 months to work on my project about language and folklore and so far have just been settling in, but am really keen to get in touch with the cultural life here in the city! If anyone can let me know about any events going on or otherwise would just like to meet me for coffee please let me know! I just arrived on my own and am not really sure where to begin...

get in touch! +38763184778 or susannekass (a) hotmail.com

Susanne

Order at http://www.veenmanpublishers.com/viewbook.php?bookID=309
LHE participants contact Skuc at galerija.skuc@guest.arnes.si to get a free copy of the book.
LHE Photobook Card: Lost Highway Expedition Photobook Card

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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.

Jelena, Bojan and DusanAlessandro and VahidaSkopje summitPeter, Claudia, Laia Under this months’ simmering heat, about 28 participants gathered in Skopje for the second-in-line of Building Lost Highway workshops. Aim of the meeting was to draft entries to the Lexicon of Provisional Future(s); entries that come from or are being inspired by the so called ‘Western Balkans’. Previous to the meeting, the participants’ five teams travelled for three or more days towards Skopje, experiencing different routes, stories and cities to support their lexicon entries.

The trips included a travel along the edges of Macedonia, a ferry rides from Italy to Montenegro and Croatia and further detouring to Macedonia, a north - south Serbia section, to all in the end converge at Skopje summit on 17 and 18 July 2007. The summit was co-organised by Press to Exit and held in the beautiful XVI century Kurshumli An (Leaded Caravanserai) where Centre for Contemporary Art of Skopje is housed. Deep shades of this heavy stone building saved us from overheat and sun blast with over 40C!