- Site-specific cases
The future of all international site-specific practices is uncertain, especially in the domain of further collaborations and sharing. The inability to travel, to closely work together in particular physical localities of interest brings these practices into crisis – how to proceed with site-specific work now when the site itself is unreachable? In our project we promote new approaches and methodologies, as well as temporary remote digital insights into sites of interest, thus enabling a much-needed flow in site-specific practices heavily stricken by COVID-19 pandemic. The broader impact of the project lies in keeping the international site-specific community alive and well enabling it a much-needed flow in keeping up with the drifting poetics of the transitory sites. Resisting both the current pandemic and the unstoppable appropriations of the abandoned sites in the city, we open questions on the speculative nature of an on-site production when the site itself is not accessible.
Drifting Poetics of the Novi Sad Summer Stage: For more than a decade (2010-), Ephemera Collective carefully follows the development of the abandoned Summer Stage in the core of the city. In spite of a belief that a built space loses meaning the moment a need for its designed function is lost, the Summer Stage, in all of its (dis)functions, still resists this conclusion.
TWO POINT ONE METERS is a site-specific spatial installation created for the purposes of the exhibition EPHEMERAL SPACES OF EPHEMERA COLLECTIVE (October 2020) at the public square, in front of the SVILARA Cultural Station in Novi Sad.
URBEX: Manila, 2018. By awakening of the potentials of the existing space, commonly considered only as ‘an envelope for action’, the projects’ participants have learnt how to manage these qualities in an attempt to create an upgraded spatial experience. As a result of a six-day training, the participants have applied the newly acquired set of skills in seizing the emptiness of a found site in the city.
THE WATER INSIDE: Edinburgh, 2017. Through detecting, embracing and creatively developing potentials of space, the group of site-specific enthusiasts got introduced to a specific method of delayering of spatial memory, narratives and ambience.
THE WATER INSIDE: Edinburgh, 2017. Through detecting, embracing and creatively developing potentials of space, the group of site-specific enthusiasts got introduced to a specific method of delayering of spatial memory, narratives and ambience.
