During July and September three workshops will be taking place on the island of Susak: photography, sculpture and architecture. The workshops are organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art from city of Rijeka, an international association BJCEM (Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean), and NGOs EKOS from the island Susak. All three workshops are open to the public, meaning that anyone can apply.

In the following three chapters you can find some basic information on each of the workshops. For more info have, as well as the application conditions have a look at Academy of Art webpage

Architectural workshop Ekosusak 2008

The first workshop in the scheduled is international festival of art, architecture and ecology Ekosusak 2008. During one week the festival will bring together experts, students and critics from various artistic and scientific disciplines, which will deal with the issue of sustainable development of remote islands. The island of Susak was chosen as the ideal isolated territory, which will serve participants of the festival as a model in creating a project of development strategy. The festival will be focused on human impact on the environment, renewable sources of energy, waste disposal, architecture and other forms of human intervention in the nature.

During the workshop renowned Spanish arhitekati Izaskun Chinchille and Uriel Fogua will hold a presentation on the theme of architecture, nature and technology.

More about Ekosusku 2008 can be found on their website: www.ekosusak.org.

Photography Workshop “The People of Susak”

The main theme of the photography workshop will be portraits of islanders in their environment. Workshop participants will learn about the kind of photographic portraits of heritage August Sander (Menschen des 20. Jahrenhunderdts) , Walker Evans (American Photographs), or Boris Cvjetanovića.

Photography workshops will be held between Aug 19th and Aug 27th. Head of the workshop is Marko Fortunatović-Ercegović.

Sculpture workshop

In the sculpture workshop participants will be creating short lifespan sculptures using Susak indigenous materials such as: sand, reed, wood and pebbles. The bay of Bok was selected as the exhibition location. There the sculptures will be exposed to the elements such as high tide, rain, sun and the wind. The transformation of sculpture’s structure under destructive forces of nature’s symbolise the social and demographic transformation of Susak during the past centuries.

Head of the workshop is a visual artist Alem Korkut.

Vineyard party

The vineyard party started completely spontaneously a few years ago. Today it’s an annual “The event” all the younger generations wait for. As the name itself says, the party is held in the vineyard 200 meters down the road from the cemetery. There a real concert gear is setup and the party begins!

Although the older and more conservative people protest against it, the fact remains that such an event is eagerly welcomed by the younger generations.

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