Textbook, 1997.
ISBN 953-96323-3-1
168 pages, 20 x 16 cm
Bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover
Publishers: SCCA Zagreb & Meandar, Zagreb
Biblioteka VAL
Editor: Jadranka Vinterhalter
Authors: Alexandre Melo, Helena Demakova, Blaženka Perica, Marina
Gržinić, Janka Vukmir, János Szobolslai, Đurđa Otržan, L’ubo Stacho, Tomasz Sikorski

The starting point for the exhibition and the theme of the
symposium was marginality in the spatial sense, i.e., geographic,
continental and maritime. The ISLAND symbolizes an isolated
stretch of land bereft of opportunities to communicate. Sometimes,
this applies to the status of the artist and his work.

To what extent is a work of art possible and what form does it take?
How strong is the artist’s desire to produce a work, to express
himself? Is there a work of art existing in the mind, filed away in the
consciousness, labelled as the marginality of life? Our desire to
remain unexpressed, our attraction to this idea (unexpressed and
immortal), and our simultaneous need to act set up the tension
which forms the mainstay of this exhibition.
The symposium discussed the emergence of this idea, the idea of
nonexistence on the margins. The participants were artists,
philosophers, sociologists of culture, and art historians from places
in which similar circumstances prevail.

The symposium was organized in Dubrovnik on 22nd, 23rd and
24th August 1996, in a city which has, for some time, been living a
non-existent life.

Content:
Alexandre Melo: A world of multipolar art
Helena Demakova: The borderland between the space of nowhere
and necessary places
Blaženka Perica: Isolation – many islands and (just) one continent?
Marina Gržinić: Myths about the global world
Janka Vukmir: The reflection of the city
János Szobolslai: Three spaces – notes on the art of/from the margin
Đurđa Otržan: The story is true
L’ubo Stacho: Symposium Dubrovnik
Tomasz Sikorski: On the marginality of art and artists in today’s
world