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LHE participants please contact Skuc galerija.skuc@guest.arnes.si to get a copy of the book.

Lost Highway Expedition Photobook is a selection of over 500 captioned photographs by 31 participants in the Lost Highway Expedition, which took place during August 2006 through the emerging capitals of the Western Balkans. The book’s aim is to demonstrate the transitions and different speeds of recent urbanization that are challenging nine major cities in the Western Balkans.

Lost Highway Expedition plotted a route roughly along the unfinished ‘Highway of Brotherhood and Unity’ as it was called in Yugoslav times, traveling in August 2006 to the nine cities of Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica, and Sarajevo in the Western Balkans. Although the country that this highway was meant to unify no longer exists, the highway infrastructure remains as a significant reminder of the ideals of voluntary participation, rebuilding and connectivity. Today as the highway is being expanded and the region is experiencing a different wave of building executed from individual initiative, the expedition set out to find out more about these processes and to speculate about its future.

During Lost Highway Expedition almost 300 architects, artists, writers, and curators from Europe, the Western Balkans, and North and South America participated along the route with partner organizations in each city in activities ranging from discussions, public art actions, guided tours, visits to archives, and picnics. As everyone organized their own journey, the makeup of the group fluctuated throughout the journey and was distinct in each city. Yet it temporarily cohered around points of common interest to investigate the abrupt and continuing structural and visual transformation of these cities that is both the result and the engine of the changing urban, economic, and social realities of the Western Balkans and of the future of Europe.

The photobook is divided into sections, one for each of the nine cities and for each journey in between, and thus chronicles each day of the expedition from a multitude of mobile views. Text appears in the form of brief captions contributed by the editors and editorial board members. This results in an in-depth visual document of the Western Balkans with a focus on the present state of urban- and highway-scapes which provide a glimpse of the future of the visual and spatial makeup of this part of Europe.

Lost Highway Expedition Photobook is co-published by Centrala Foundation for Future Cities, School of Missing Studies and Skuc Gallery. It results from Lost Highway Expedition (July-August 2006) and is part of the project Europe Lost and Found.

Lost Highway Expedition Photobook includes photographs taken by Kasper Akhøj, Azra Akšamija, Artgineering, Ajdin Bašić, Stefanie Busch, Yane Calovski, Katherine Carl, Ana Džokić, Giulia Fiocca, Barbara Galassi, Hristina Ivanoska, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss, Susanne Kass, Ivan Kucina, Hugo Lammerink, Kavior Moon, Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Marc Neelen, Angel Nevarez, Jaume Nualart, Pilar Ortiz, Aleksandra Petruševska, Marjetica Potrč, Kyong Park, Vahida Ramujkić, Arnoud Schuurman, Laia Sole, Valerie Tevere, Paola Velasquez, Velimir Žernovski.

Editors: Katherine Carl, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss
Design and Layout: Ajdin Bašić
Editorial Assistant: Kavior Moon

Editorial Board: Azra Akšamija, Yane Calovski, Ana Džokić, Barbara Galassi, Alenka Gregorič, Hristina Ivanoska, Ivan Kucina, Kavior Moon, Marc Neelen, Marjetica Potrč, Kyong Park, Patrick Ward.

Lost Highway Expedition Partners:
kuda.org (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Platforma 9,81 (Zagreb, Croatia)
Prelom Kolektiv (Belgrade, Serbia)
press to exit project space (Skopje, Macedonia)
pro.ba (Sarajevo, Bosnia)
Projektor (Podgorica, Montenegro)
Skuc Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Support: Lost Highway Expedition Photobook is made possible with major support from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia. Additional support is provided by Trust for Mutual Understanding, through CECArtsLink, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, European Cultural Foundation, and Mondriaan Foundation.

Distributor: Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam / http://www.veenmanpublishers.com
Print and binding: Matformat, Ljubljana
Number of pages: 316
Full color, 18 cm x 21 cm
Print run: 1200
Released: October 20, 2007