Future Heritage Collection #1
Installation, video (2013) Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, SI The Future Heritage Collection [FHC] is a collection of stories produced through interviews with “experts” on varied subjects having to do with heritage, including Islamic manuscripts, Egyptian architecture, and the memory of the Holocaust. Interviewees are asked to propose an example of […]
Museum Solidarity Lobby [MSL]
Installation (2013) Commissioned by MAP/Dallas Holocaust Museum, Dallas, TX and Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, SI Museum Solidarity Lobby [MSL] is an interactive installation, framing a discursive space for thinking about the future of national museums in post-national societies. The project links the museum crisis in the Balkans to the closing of cultural institutions […]
CultureShutdown / Solidarity Day
Participatory project in public space, photography, censorship actions (2013) On October 4, 2012, after 124 years of existence, Bosnia’s National Museum closed down due to a funding crisis. Six other state-level institutions, including the National Art Gallery and the National and University Library, were also about to become permanently inaccessible to the public, isolating and […]
Lace Mashrabiya
Textile installation (2013) Commissioned by the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute, Dornbirn, AT Lace Mashrabiya is an instantly recognizable assemblage of woodwork and window associated with Islamic architecture. This project reinterprets the mashrabiya motif to create a multi-sided experience for the spectator. Looking from the outside of the building toward the inside—that is, toward Mecca—the viewer can […]