Davor Ereš, Marko Paunović, Ivan Šuletić i Mladen Lazarević
The idea of the project is to express the irreplaceability of sound as a recording that has the capacity to resonate both the stratification and specificity of space simultaneously. The project observes the spatial complex of thermal plant Power and Light not only as an architectural structure but as one complex ecology of natural and built properties of the space. The project strategy is aimed at ensuring that sound is activated as a specific capacity of a non-visual procedure that should highlight the particularity of “observed” location.
The intention of the project is to focuse on sensitizing and encouraging “listening” to the uniqueness of the nature of the urban landscape, which is generatedby the uniqueness of the thermal power plant complex Power and Light (in the center of which it is located). Within the points of the constructed field of recording and listening, the idea is single out and interdisciplinary interweave fragments of spatial structures and natural environment.
In this context interdisciplinarity implies applying the knowledge and skills of the professions of architects and sound engineer, programmer electrical engineer and visual artist. Such a cooperative profile and interweave of disciplinary fields should enable the detection of specific properties, conditions and characteristics of the area of the industrial heritage complex in question. The procedure starts from properties architecture through the characteristics of the water-urban landscape to the state of different ecologies that they create, focusing attention on the presence and overlapping of technological and spatial aspects of industrial heritage with phenomena of urban flora and fauna.
The goal of this approach is to open the field of dominantly visual culture of observation to innovative interdisciplinary cognitive processes in which the audio record is simultaneously document and source for generating imagination and creative interpretation. Innovation of the process offers unexpected and more visually abstract procedures for the formation of knowledge about specifics of the industrial heritage and its inseparability from the natural environment.
Davor Ereš is an architect and researcher, whose work encompasses architectural design, teaching, and research, with a focus on learning through architecture, the (post) production of architecture, and the questions of contemporaneity. He is a visiting teacher at the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Paris. As a practitioner and educator, he has cultivated his architectural methodology through leading international workshops in Cadiz, Helsinki, Valletta, Tehran, Lyon, and Venice.
Marko Paunović is an ambient artist and sound sculptor. He works with the synthesis of electro-acoustic and ambiance while researching the sound potential of the melancholic atmosphere of isolated landscapes within frames of minimalism and drone music. His work is represented in sound installations, sound performances, radiophonic pieces, sound for independent experimental movies as well as solo albums and collaborations. His poetic-theoretical texts represent the example of conceptual and linguistic (l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e) poetry, and they are simultaneously the starting points for his compositions. As they speak about the act of its own genesis through its auto-reflexivity, as much as of its composing process, with every staging of his work Marko enters the domain of lecture performance format. lecture performance-a.
Ivan Šuletić graduated (2007) and completed his doctoral studies (2015) at the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He has exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad. His works are in public and private collections, including the Belgrade City Museum, the European Patent Office Art Collection in Munich, the National Museum in Kruševac, the Wiener Städtische Collection of Contemporary Art, the collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Niš, and others. Šuletić is the winner of the Vladimir Velicković Foundation’s first prize for drawing in 2018, the “Fine Autumn” award in 2016, and the “Niš Art Foundation” second prize in 2015. He is employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade.
Mladen Lazarević works in the field of IT technology with a special interest in machine learning, bioinformatics, signal processing and robotics. Through participation in various projects, he developed a multidisciplinary approach through the practice of continuous cooperation and intensive exchange with mathematicians, biologists and pharmacists. He develops his professional experience through the processes of data analysis, image processing, text processing and digital signal processing. For the last seven years, he has been working as a bioinformatics engineer in the development and evaluation of various data analysis methods, algorithms and models, both for time-sensitive applications and for applications with large amounts of data. Simultaneously, he develops an interest in the world of art and its concepts of contemporary aesthetics as a broader area of communication strategies, focusing his interest on the potential for a better understanding of our world defined by digital production.
