Our Building at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Our Building is a series of short radio shows, broadcasted weekly via The B92 Radio in Belgrade from August 2001 - January 2003.
67 episodes blurred the boundaries of documentary, reality-show and radio drama. Nebojsa Milikic produced the material with the building's tenants, trying to address the issues of community life in a typical building in Belgrade. Bearing the imprint of a common property, of a "housing for everybody" social policy, such a community was driven into the context of the ongoing political and economic changes due to privatization of flats, redirection of the economy from state-run to free market, heritage of the wars in former Yugoslavia, etc.
Our Building will be briefly presented by Milikic and then analyzed and discussed by the audience. The discussion will help outline and understand the impact and outcome of the artwork in its ideological and political setting, as seen and defined by the discussion.
The discussion is open to the public and will occur at Outpost's community resource room at 6375 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042 on Thursday, July 17, at 7:30pm. Please join us.
Nebojsa Milikic lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. He is Outpost's resident artist for six weeks during the summer of 2008. As an artist and cultural worker, his artistic practice merges with social and political activism. His work often requires the participation of others, taking the form of radio shows, workshops, and social research at home and abroad. Areas of interest include societies in transition, euro-east/euro-west problems, finding new communicative skills and standards, and bringing contemporary art to places where it is not expected.
Outpost for Contemporary Art
6375 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90042
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